Projects need to plan for all conditions that are necessary to achieve success. Establishing a levy to provide more training funds was necessary to transform the Namibia vocational training system into a demand-driven system but it was not sufficient. The project was designed to address several complementary conditions, like preparing the NTA to manage these new resources and establishing the ISCs to identify training needs, but not all were fully achieved. Furthermore, a number of complementary conditions, such as ensuring vocational training providers were prepared to absorb the additional funding, were not sufficiently addressed by the project. The absence of such complementary conditions can affect the longer-term ability of the levy funds to truly meet the skills needs of the private sector. Therefore, it is critical to design projects with a clear logic that accounts for all of the conditions necessary and sufficient for achieving targeted results and to ensure that implementation decisions are considered within the context of their effect on targeted results.
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