Swiss Contact - Morogoro, Tanzania

Despite impressive development and social welfare improvements, Tanzania continues to face considerable development challenges in economic distribution, population growth, unemployment, and education. The high unemployment rate is attributed to limited access to skills training, low enrolment into TVET institutions and a mismatch between available skills and the labour market needs. The Tanzanian Government has taken steps to decrease the skills gap. It has launched a Technical and Vocational Education and Training department and adopted an Education-Employment Link framework which will connect people who have completed their studies with available jobs.

There are over 100 different languages spoken in Tanzania, making it the most linguistically diverse country in East Africa.  

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Swahili is the national language, while the official language is English, resulting in a discrepancy between labour demands and available soft skills.