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| Skill
for Productivity, Competitiveness, and Employability: How Training
Matters
APSDEP plays an important role in promoting human resources development through technical and vocational training in the region in both formal and informal sectors. Within the framework of the ILO's technical cooperation programme in the region, APSDEP assists in improving the effectiveness of vocational training policies and systems through high-quality, timely and relevant skill training. Increased emphasis is placed on the contribution that skill training makes to economic growth and improved living standards, particularly as countries adjust more effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization, increased competitiveness and productivity, and the changing world of work. Ensuring wider access to training, and addressing the special needs of specific groups like women, youth, people with disabilities, the elderly and others is also part of APSDEP's core objectives. Guiding Principles of APSDEP The following guiding principles shall be promoted in APSDEP programmes and activities:
**Recommendation No. 150 contains detailed indications of policies and programmes, vocational guidance and vocational training (including at enterprise level), training for managers and self-employed persons, programmes for particular areas or branches of economic activity, particular groups of the population, the promotion of equality of opportunity for women and men in training and employment, migrant workers, training of staff for vocational guidance and vocational training, research, administrative aspects and representative bodies. |
