The strategic objectives of the ETDP SETA are to:
Promote and facilitate:
- the identification of skills shortages and training needs in the sector;
- the development of qualifications and learning pathways for education, training and development practitioners.
- an increase in the levels of investment in education, training and development in the sector and to improve the return on that investment
- the development of the skills of workers in the sector at all levels, through -
- a better quality of life for workers, employment prospects for those previously disadvantaged and labor mobility;
- productivity in the workplace and healthy competition among employers;
- self employment and
- redressing imbalances caused by a separate and unequal education and training system;

