DVV International Facilitates Multi-sector Collaboration Towards a Shared Vision
From 6–8 and 11-12 August 2024, DVV International Sri Lanka convened a Consensus Building Workshop in Colombo, bringing together representatives from eight key national institutions to shape the country’s emerging Lifelong Learning and Adult Education (ALE) System.
Participants from the Ministry of Education, Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission (TVEC), Vocational Training Authority (VTA), Department of Technical Education and Training (DTET), National Youth Services Council (NYSC), Department of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, and the National Enterprise Development Authority (NEDA) engaged in an intensive three-day dialogue facilitated by DVV International.
The workshop served as an important platform for consensus building, shared reflection, and institutional alignment. Participants discussed the proposed implementation model, explored the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder, and identified ways to integrate career guidance, life coaching, skills development, and enterprise learning within a coordinated lifelong learning framework.
Through interactive exercises such as scenario sketching, group work, and joint planning, the partners collectively defined a common vision for ALE in Sri Lanka, setting the foundation for pilot interventions in selected districts such as Ampara and Puttalam.
To build on this progress, DVV International organised a follow-up technical workshop on 14–15 August 2024, focusing on the design of the demand-side assessment. The session helped partners agree on research priorities, methodology, and logistics for the upcoming study.
Together, these workshops reflect a growing commitment among Sri Lanka’s key education and development actors to build a sustainable, inclusive, and responsive lifelong learning system, one that leaves no learner behind.