Vocational education and training - VET

THE TVET EXPERT OF THE WEEK, p18
Madeleine Anne Decker is information and knowledge management specialist for the Canadian Vocational Association/Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle.

The Canadian Vocational Association (CVA) was created in 1960 to promote and foster education and training which leads to occupational competence. The CVA is also a world leader in DACUM training, development and research, and Canada’s premier voice and expert in competency-based learning and training.

Madeleine joined the CVA team in 2011 to increase the visibility by publishing a monthly newsletter and creating two TVET online databases. She added to these tasks the role of community manager by feeding the Association’s Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. Today, almost 100 newsletters have been published, more than 3,000 articles, papers, documents, guidelines, etc. added to the databases - all searchable by keywords - and more than 6,000 tweets shared with the readers.

Madeleine is also a consultant for UN institutions during the humanitarian crisis, as Information and knowledge management specialist. These last 25 years, her career took her to eight African countries, Haiti, Geneva, and Rome for the World Health Organization, the World Food Program and UNICEF.
For more information about the CVA, write to cvaacfpbulletin@gmail.com
Madeleine Anne Decker
Email: madodecker@gmail.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleine-anne-decker-22733115/