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Flynn, Ryan

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Flynn, Ryan, Flynn, Ryan Peter
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Last updated:January 31, 2023
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Ryan Flynn is a workforce and skills consultant in the World Bank’s Eastern and Southern Africa region, where he is coordinating the development of a results-based lending program to improve the skills pipeline for key industries in Tanzania. He served previously as a Research Analyst within the Education Global Practice. In this capacity, he worked on developing analytical tools and methodologies under the Systems Approach for Better Education Results workforce systems benchmarking program. He subsequently co-managed its implementation in over 30 countries, has developed a variety of products for dissemination of findings, and led dialogue on results with policymakers and business leaders in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. He has worked in the non-profit sector on trade policy and as an educator, and is recipient of a Fulbright-Hayes award for study of language pedagogy in Beijing, China.

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    Workforce Development in Emerging Economies: Comparative Perspectives on Institutions, Praxis, and Policies
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2016-06-15) Nam, Yoo-Jeung Joy; Tan, Jee-Peng; Lee, Kiong Hock; Flynn, Ryan; Roseth, Viviana V.
    Investing in skills has risen to the top of the policy agenda today in rich and poor countries alike. The World Bank supports its partner countries on this agenda in multiple ways: development finance, research and analysis, global knowledge exchange, and technical assistance. This report was originally conceived as a contribution to this catalog of the World Bank’s work, but its topic and findings are relevant to all policy makers and analysts interested in skills-building to drive economic growth and improve human well-being. The book examines workforce development (WfD) systems in emerging economies around the world and presents novel systems-level data generated by the Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER)-WfD benchmarking tool, which was created to implement the World Bank’s 10-year Education Sector Strategy launched in 2012. A key theme in the book is that WfD entails a multi-layered engagement involving high-level policy makers, system-level managers, as well as leaders at individual institutions. Too often, the conversation and actions are fragmented by intellectual, administrative and operational silos which undermine effective cooperation to solve the deep challenges of building job-relevant skills. The book’s findings, based on cross-sectional data for nearly 30 countries and time-series data for five countries, identify successes and common issues across countries in the sample. In lagging countries, the biggest difficulties relate to: forming and sustaining strategic partnerships with employers; ensuring equitable and efficient funding for vocational education; and putting in place mechanisms to enhance training providers’ accountability for results defined by their trainees’ job market performance. By framing WfD in the broader skills-for-growth context and drawing on lessons from countries where well-designed WfD strategies have helped to drive sustained growth, this book offers clear guidance on how to enable a more effective approach to the inevitably complex challenges of workforce development in emerging economies.
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    Tanzania Workforce Development: SABER Country Report 2015
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015) Mwaduma, Nichoderms B. ; Valerio, Alexandria; Flynn, Ryan Peter; Gera, Ravinder Madron Casley
    This report presents the findings of an assessment of Tanzania’s workforce development (WfD) system based on the World Bank’s systems approach for better education results (SABER) WfD systems benchmarking tool. The focus is on policies, institutions, and practices in three important system dimensions: strategic framework, system oversight, and service delivery. By systematically benchmarking the state of policies and practices across these three dimensions, this report aims to inform dialogue on important WfD system reforms by situating current policies and institutional performance against global good practices.