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Skills, knowledge and employability

Two women operating a computer at a vocational training center in Harare, Zimbabwe
Countries at all development levels find that adequate education and skills increase the ability to innovate and adopt new technologies. They make the difference between inclusive growth and growth that leaves large segments of society behind. A workforce that has been appropriately trained and is able to continue learning, boosts investor confidence and thus job growth.
  1. Read more on the challenge of skills and employability (PDF)

Key resources

  1. Skills for youth employment
  2. Inclusion of persons with disabilities
  3. Employment services
  4. Management handbook and CD-ROM: Vocational education and training institutions

Focus on

  1. Report

    Skills for Green Jobs: A global view
    2011

    This report shows that skills development is critical to unlocking the employment potential of green growth, yet skills shortages are becoming an obstacle in realizing this potential.

    1. Executive Summary of the report "Skills for Green Jobs"

News

  1. Brief profile on People with Disabilities

    25 May 2012

  2. The new SOLVE training package: Integrating health promotion into workplace OSH policies

    18 April 2012

  3. Fiji - TACKLE activities

    23 March 2012

Events

  1. Managing your Agricultural Cooperative - My.Coop. First official online Training of Trainers course

    14 May - 6 July 2012, on-line training

  2. Occupational safety and health management in the enterprise

    4 - 15 June 2012, International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy

  3. Training Workshop on Prevention of Pneumoconioses (using the ILO 2011 Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses)

    17 - 20 September 2012, Lima, Peru

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