Skills and employability resources

June 2019

  1. ILO’s Bangladesh Skills for Employment and Productivity (B-SEP) Project comes to a close

    This landmark project was launched in 2014 with an aim to strengthen the skills system in Bangladesh and thereby increase employment, productivity and economic growth. The project was implemented by the Government of Bangladesh with the support of the ILO and funding from Canadian Government.

  2. Benchmarking Exercise in Bricklaying/Masonry/Plastering and Building Electrical Wiring Skills Area in Cambodia

    ILO, through the ILO/Korea Partnership Programme, and in collaboration with Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training, organizes the benchmarking exercises of national competency and skills standards, assessment and certification mechanisms in the following skills area: ‘bricklaying, masonry, plastering’ and ‘building electrical wiring’. This effort attends to the MRS pilot implementation in ASEAN.

  3. My skills my future

    02 June 2019

May 2019

  1. Mutual Recognition of Skills in ASEAN

    30 May 2019

    Since 2012, the ILO’s work on the mutual recognition of skills was initiated to assist the ASEAN Member States (AMS) in preparing for a region with a free flow of skilled labour. This factsheet provides a synopsis on the progression of the ILO’s work in assisting the AMS to move towards the mutual recognition of skills, from the preparatory stages to the current period where pilot implementation is endorsed, adopted and practiced.

  2. Concept note

    30 May 2019

    Concept note

  3. Benchmarking Exercise in Bricklaying/Masonry/Plastering and Sewing Machine Operator in Myanmar

    ILO, through the ILO/Korea Partnership Programme, and in collaboration with Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training, organizes the benchmarking exercises of national competency and skills standards, assessment and certification mechanisms in the following skills area: ‘bricklaying, masonry, plastering’ and ‘building electrical wiring’. This effort attends to the MRS pilot implementation in ASEAN.

  4. Roundtable discussion on the Way to TVET Sector Wide Approach (SWAp): Challenges and Opportunities

    ILO’s European Union funded project Skills 21 organized a roundtable discussion for effective skills governance with its constituents in collaboration with the Daily Prothom Alo on 22 May 2019.

  5. Promoting wider participation of girls and women in ICT

    20 May 2019

    To promote wider participation of girls and women in ICT, the ILO shared its Women in STEM programme and its collaboration with a public training center on ICT skills training for women.

  6. Apprenticeships in Asia and the Pacific

    16 May 2019

    Findings from the Regional Training Workshop on Quality Apprenticeships for Asia and the Pacific

  7. The ILO in Bangladesh

    08 May 2019