Contents: Markus Maurer/Philipp Gonon: The challenges of policy transfer in vocational skills development: An introduction – Kenneth King: Skills, competencies, and knowledge in international translation and cooperation – Michel Carton: What do we need for vocational skills development: Data, consultancy or research? All of them! – Stephanie Allais: National qualifications frameworks and apprenticeships: Promises, premises, pitfalls – Madhu Singh: The work of UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in strengthening lifelong learning through. National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) – Poorna Kanta Adhikary: Youth skill development in Nepal: An approach to human security and sustainable peace – Markus Maurer: The revolutionary scope of qualifications frameworks and their limitations on the ground: Reflections on the model used in development cooperation and its implementation in Sri Lanka – Salim Akoojee: Promises unfulfilled and (still) counting casualties: Embedded interests and the NQF in South Africa – Rashmi Agrawal: The Indian approach to skill certification – Matthias Jäger: Meandering through policy development: Observations on vocational education and training in Albania – Philipp Gonon: Development cooperation in the field of vocational education and training - The dual system as a global role model? – Reinhard Stockmann: The transfer of dual vocational training: Experiences from German development cooperation – Rudolf Batliner: Adapting the dual system of vocational education and training – Stefan Wolf: The ‘need’ approach for curriculum development in the TVET cooperation with developing countries - CBET meets work-process oriented curriculum design – Siroco Messerli: Result-based payment systems in vocational skills development – Christopher Winch: Are the dual system and qualifications frameworks compatible with each other?