The Technical, Entrepreneurial, Vocational and Education Training (TEVET) Authority is a regulatory body established in 1999 by an Act of Parliament. The TEVETA was founded to operate as an independent and autonomous body responsible for technical, entrepreneurial, and vocational and education training in Malawi.

At its establishment, the Authority was mandated to create an integrated TEVET system in Malawi that is demand-driven, competence-based, modular, comprehensive, accessible, flexible, and consolidated enough to service both the rural and urban Malawian population. The primary purpose of TEVET Authority is to contribute to human resources development through, among other things, creating an enabling environment for the sustainable acquisition of internationally competitive skills and competences for a productive workforce capable of spearheading the country's production and export-led socio-economic growth.

Objectives

To promote an integrated, demand-driven, competency-based modular technical education and training system;

To monitor gaps between supply and demand for skills;

To support the adoption and application of appropriate technologies;

To promote managerial and business skills, and a spirit of entrepreneurial culture with regard to both wage and self-employment;

To facilitate sound and sustainable financing and funding mechanisms for technical education and training; and

To facilitate and bring together the expertise and moderate the different interests of stakeholders of technical education and training.