TVET empowerment effects within the context of poverty, inequality and marginalisation in Palestine

The international TVET literature stresses the role of TVET in development. UNESCO’s 2015 Recommendation envisioned TVET contribution to sustainable development as ‘empowering individuals, organizations, enterprises and communities and fostering employment, decent work and lifelong learning’. This paper illustrates the achieved functionings and agency of VET graduates in relation to their well-being in a marginalised Palestinian context. The paper concentrates on the empowerment effect on the graduate as achieved agency while highlighting the other achieved functionings, which contribute to well-being and human development.