Books: training

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• A manual for gender audit facilitators. The ILO participatory gender audit methodology - Buy now
  13 July 2007 - This manual provides gender audit facilitators with guidelines and practical instructions on how to plan and implement participatory gender audits in an organizational context. ...

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• Career guidance. A resource handbook for low- and middle-income countries - Buy now
  04 April 2006 - Career Guidance:A resource handbook for low-and middle-income countries" is an essential guide to developing effective career guidance systems, career information, organizing service delivery, staff development and improving governance and coordination...

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• Learning and teaching in the internet age. Distance learning and new technologies for vocational training - Buy now
  04 December 2006 - With the use of new technologies, distance learning has raised more interest and broadened its possibilities. Vocational training is also involved in the process, though there still are many doubts as to what its potential and limits are, or what opportunities and risks it creates.

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• Microfinance and public policy. Outreach, performance and efficiency. - Buy now
  12 November 2007 - This book states to aid agencies and governments to consider efficiency as a robust and reliable criterion to guide their decisions on whether continuing or discounting support from microfinance institutions (MFIS).
• Making microfinance work. Managing for improved performance - Buy now
  10 November 2006 - Microfinance has long been recognized as having significant potential to create jobs and reduce poverty. But to meet the twin challenges of growth and sustainability, managers of microfinance institutions (MFIs) must not only understand essential management functions: they must also be armed with innovative ideas and strategies to succeed in today's increasingly competitive environment. ...
• Management development. A guide for the profession - Buy now
  30 July 1998 - Provides practical information relating to the need to update management training and development approaches, methodes and techniques in the light of global economic trends and new management practices.

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• Skills, productivity and employment growth. The case of Latin America - Buy now
  24 June 2008 - The aim of this study is to illustrate the relations between training and workers' skills, productivity and the growth of quality employment in societies in Latin America by means of an analysis of the existing information and case studies of four different countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru). A review of the activities of ...
• Skills for improved productivity, employment growth and development. Report 97 V - Buy now
  02 May 2008 - This report seeks to examine how, within a decent work perspective, countries can develop their skills base so as to increase both the quantity and the productivity of labour employed in the economy. ...

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• Training resource pack for agricultural cooperatives on the elimination of hazardous child labour (Set of 2 books) - Buy now
  09 July 2009 - The goal of this resource kit is to raise awareness, help cooperative trainers to plan and run activities, and improve occupational safety and health conditions and promote the implementation of ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182).
• The effective employers' organization. A series of "hand-on" guides to building and managing effective employers' organizations (Set of 4 guides + 1 cd-rom) - Buy now
  10 February 2006 -

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• Vocational education and skills development for commerce workers. - Buy now
  04 February 2009 - Report on the proceedings. Global dialogue forum on vocational education and skills development for commerce workers. Report GDFCW/2008/8
• Vocational training and productivity - Buy now
  24 June 2008 - Due to their contribution to the development of skills and competencies, vocational training institutions are a source of comparative advantages to promote the growth in productivity and reflect such growth in more and better jobs. A better access to relevant...
• Value chain analysis for policy makers and practitioners - Buy now
  10 April 2006 - Written for policy-makers and practitioners, this guide aims to improve the ability of local enterprises to compete in the global economy and generate sustainable jobs and income for local people. Key insights of the value chain approach and its application to the participation of local enterprises in a global economy are presented and discussed. ...