This expert post comes from Lili-Marguerite Stern, Technical Advisor for Youth & Livelihoods at the International Rescue Committee and Co-Coordinator of the Economic Strengthening, Livelihoods and Child Protection Global Technical Group (GTG), a sub-group within the Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Countries (CPC) Learning Network.

I have just posted a presentation I gave a couple weeks ago at the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Global Consultation in Istanbul, Turkey in the working session on “Comprehensive Approaches to Vocational Education & Training (VET) & Youth Livelihood.” For those of you who were not able to attend, the presentation sparked debate around the strategic decision taken recently by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to stop implementing VET programs directly, and transition to a more systems-based approach.