WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary to enable the country’s production, trade, and service-rendering establishments to have a competitive and enduring organizational setup through the employment of trained manpower;

WHEREAS, it is found necessary to organize a technical and vocational education and training system that would assist the younger generation to be prepared psychologically, have discipline, and the potential to work as competent employees and creators of work;

WHEREAS, to ensure that a technical and vocational education and training program produces capable manpower, it is deemed necessary to establish a system under which trainees undergo apprenticeship training in productive and service-rendering enterprises;

WHEREAS, it is found necessary to establish a uniform system for the determination of levels of competence and accreditation of training institutions and for the certification of trainees;

WHEREAS, to ensure the success of technical and vocational education and training, it has been found necessary to establish a mechanism providing for the participation of governmental and non-governmental organizations in the preparation of training programs and curricula as well as in their evaluation and management;

NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance with Articles 51 Sub-Article (3) and Article 55 Sub-Article (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, it is hereby proclaimed as follows: