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Expression of Interest for TA for ATFPs Digital Transformation Roadmap and Tunisias Education Digital Ecosystem Mapping Digital transformation has become a key enabler for improving the efficiency and performance of public service delivery. In the education and training sector, it offers concrete opportunities to strengthen policy steering, streamline management processes, improve coordination across institutions, and support decision-making based on reliable and shared data. Tunisias education and training landscape brings together several ministries, public agencies, and specialized bodies whose missions cover the full educational and professional trajectory of learners. Over recent years, these institutions have invested significantly in digitization, developing a range of information systems, platforms, and databases to meet their respective operational needs. These efforts have produced meaningful results and reflect a genuine institutional commitment to modernization. At the same time, the digital ecosystem that has emerged remains heterogeneous, with systems developed at different times, according to different approaches, and in response to institution-specific priorities. As Tunisias national ambitions around integrated public services, data valorization, and artificial intelligence continue to grow, there is increasing value in developing a clearer, shared understanding of the existing digital ecosystem and in building structured approaches to data governance and interoperability. A first area where action is needed concerns the internal digitization of key institutions. The Tunisian Agency for Vocational Training (ATFP), the main government body responsible for managing the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system, is a strong case in point. ATFP coordinates a network of 136 vocational training centers across the country, managing interactions between a wide range of stakeholdersapprentices, trainers, training centers, accommodation units, and enterprisesacross multiple sectors of the economy. Despite ATFPs pivotal role in Tunisias skills ecosystem, its operational systems remain largely fragmented and insufficiently digitized. Administrative, pedagogical, and steering processes at central directorates and vocational training centers rely heavily on manual workflows or on isolated and poorly integrated digital tools. This limits its ability to ensure consistent end-to-end management of its missions, to generate timely data for strategic steering, to coordinate its activities with other institutions such as the National Agency for Employment and Self-Employment (ANETI), and to ensure effective articulation between the central level and the training centers. as well as respond effectively to changing labor market demands, including those related to international labor mobility. Two complementary technical assistance initiatives, both implemented by the World Bank with European Union funding, are working to address these challenges. Component 1 is a dedicated technical assistance project running from January 2026 to December 2027, with a specific focus on ATFP. Under Component 1 of this projectwhich aims to strengthen the institutional and digital capacities of key employment and vocational training institutionsthis assignment supports ATFP in designing a comprehensive, evidence-based digital transformation roadmap. The roadmap is intended to draw on international good practices, reflect the needs of all key stakeholders, and lay the groundwork for future linkages between ATFPs systems, ANETIs digital platforms, and the governments labor market information system. Component 2 is the Programme dAppui au Secteur de lÉducation (PASE), which takes a broader sectoral perspective and aims to promote a more integrated, efficient, and data-driven approach to managing education, training, and skills development policies. Within this framework, the present assignment seeks to produce an exhaustive mapping of the digital ecosystem across the education sectora necessary foundation for the design of an integrated Education Data Compass to monitor the performance of the Tunisian education system. The mapping will cover institutional actors, information systems, key sectoral datasets, and information flows and sharing mechanisms. It will provide a consolidated picture of the sectors digital landscape, surface the main challenges related to data governance and system interoperability, and generate a solid analytical basis for future initiatives in these areas. The assignment is structured in two phases: an initial diagnostic and mapping phase, which stands alone as a usable deliverable, followed where applicable by a second phase focused on developing recommendations based on the findings. Tender Link : https://wbgeprocure-rfxnow.worldbank.org/rfxnow/public/advertisement/7073/view.html
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