SABER Workforce Development West Bank and Gaza Country Report 2014

The Palestinian Territories, along with six countries in
the Middle East and North Africa Region (Egypt, Iraq,
Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen) have applied the
World Bank workforce development (WfD) diagnostic
tool under the System Approach for Better Education
Results (SABER) Initiative. The diagnostic tool analyzes
and assesses the systems, institutions, and policies in
place to promote the development of an appropriately
skilled workforce. The tool focuses on three important
functional dimensions of policymaking and
implementation—strategic framework, system
oversight, and service delivery. Each dimension is
scored on a four-point scale against standardized
rubrics based on available knowledge on global good
practice. 

The results, summarized on the cover of this report,
rate the Palestinian Territories at the emerging level in
the functional dimensions of strategic framework and
system oversight and at the latent level in service
delivery.