Piloting Training Tools to Improve Vocational Training in Liberia

Women’s Refugee Commission, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in New York that supports refugee women and children through advocacy and research. The Women’s Refugee Commission and a previous team of Columbia University students created the Market Assessment Toolkit for Vocational Training Providers and Youth (hereafter called “the Toolkit”) in 2008, which helps vocational training (VT) service providers gather information on market conditions in order to establish programs that are responsive both to student needs and market demand. The objective of this workshop was to decide upon the best content and format for training materials that would introduce the Toolkit to users in a variety of different countries and contexts.