Skills and Employability Branch (SKILLS)

The ILO's work with constituents focuses primarily on three areas: linking training to current labour market needs as well as anticipating and building competencies for the jobs of the future; building quality apprenticeship systems and incorporating core skills into training for young people; and expanding access to employment-related training in rural communities in order to improve livelihoods, reduce poverty, and equip women and men to work in the formal economy.
What's new
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Capacity building workshop on the Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) for five SIFA countries
The STED capacity building workshop was held in Zanzibar, Tanzania on April 4 - 8, 2022 within the framework of the SIFA-Skills Anticipation Project.
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Structured Funding Dialogue: Development partners reaffirm their commitment to support the ILO’s work on Skills and Lifelong learning
On 28th March 2022, the International Labour Organization (ILO) organized a Structured Funding Dialogue on Skills and Lifelong Learning to build and reinforce sustainable partnerships and explore funding modalities for its recently launched Global Programme on Skills and Lifelong Learning (GPSL3).
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ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call: winning proposals from Ecuador and Comoros start their innovation journey
Winning entries of the 2nd and 3rd Skills Challenge Innovation Calls were successfully launched in Ecuador and Comoros, with winning teams, partners and their networks expressing their commitment to support e-formality through skills development in Latin America and the Caribbean and around the prevention of forced labour through skills and lifelong learning in Africa.
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ILO training on Skills for a Greener Future: building resilience and entering the path to sustainable development in Ethiopia
Through its Global Programme on Skills & Lifelong Learning (GPSL3) in Ethiopia, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has conducted a three-day training on “skills for a greener future”, which is the first of its kind in the region. The training took place at Bahirdar, Amhara regional state, from 14 - 16 February 2022.
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ILO SKILL UP Ghana Project Supports the implementation of Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) in the Ghanaian Healthcare sector
The ILO and the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) facilitated a capacity building workshop to support the development of a skills strategy for the healthcare sector in Ghana.
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Policy guidance note
Digitalising career guidance services
This policy guidance note provides advice to decision makers, managers and technical staff on how to invest in digitalising career guidance services.
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Technological innovations in Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
The objective of this webinar is to provide policymakers and practitioners with a platform for an open discussion during which knowledge, experience and innovative ideas associated with the digitalisation of RPL are shared.
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How to strengthen informal apprenticeship systems for a better future of work?: Lessons learned from comparative analysis of country cases
This working paper undertakes a meta study on informal apprenticeship in developing countries. It compares the findings of country-level research conducted by the ILO and others in the past 15 years to shed more light on apprenticeship systems in the informal economy.
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Global Programme on Skills and Lifelong Learning (GPSL3)
The Global Programme on Skills and Lifelong Learning (GPSL3) serves as an operational arm of the ILO Global Technical Team on skills and lifelong learning. It works as an accelerator of the Office’s actions to reach the ILO Programme & Budget Outcome 5. It also serves as facilitator of knowledge management and innovation on skills and lifelong learning.
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Changing demand for skills in digital economies and societies: Literature review and case studies from low- and middle-income countries
The report reviews different approaches to measuring digital skills, and discusses the impact of digitalization on skills and related policy recommendations.
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Policy Brief - Digitalisation of TVET and skills development: Leveraging technology to support lifelong learning
This policy brief concentrates on the digital transformation of skills systems and how technologies affect them. It is focused on how skills systems themselves become digitised, not how they respond to the demand for skills arising from digitalisation in the labour market.
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Video series: Shaping skills and lifelong learning for the future of work
This series of videos highlight the key points addressed in the report "Shaping skills and lifelong learning for the future of work" to be discussed at the 109th International Labour Conference.
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ILO announces the winners of the 3rd ILO Skills Innovation Call on Preventing forced labour in Africa
The winner of the 3rd ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call has been announced, and the USD 30,000 prize has gone to a youth entrepreneurship network in Comoros.
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ILO announces winners of the 2nd ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call on e-formality and skills development
Winning proposals offer innovative solutions for labour formalization in Latin America and the Caribbean through new technologies and skills development.
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Digitalization of national TVET and skills systems: Harnessing technology to support LLL: An enquiry and action framework
This report describes and updates the picture of digital vocational education and training, providing an overview of the issues surrounding digitalisation across the key functional areas of skills systems.
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The ILO and the Government of Bangladesh developed an awareness-raising campaign for TVET institutes
ILO’s EU funded Skills 21 project supported the government of Bangladesh to develop an awareness-raising campaign strategy for the TVET institutes to bring behavioural changes in awareness, knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, self-efficacy and social norms towards TVET.
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Meet the finalists of the 3rd ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call on Preventing forced labour in Africa
The finalists will be invited to present their ideas in a virtual pitch event, which will be the final stage of the evaluation process.
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Meet the finalists of the 2nd ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call
The finalists will have the opportunity to present their projects during a live-streamed event on 4 November 2021.
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ILO and Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training sign an agreement to promote skills and lifelong learning
The Letter of Understanding between the two organizations aims to promote skills and lifelong learning for all workers throughout their working lives.
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Virtual Conference
Continental virtual conference on skills anticipation and matching in Africa
Under the auspices of the Skills Initiative for Africa, (SIFA) the Africa Union Commission, and African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NPEAD), with the technical support of the International Labour Organization will be holding an Africa wide conference on Skills Anticipation.
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Global framework on core skills for life and work in the 21st century
The new ILO global framework reflects the ongoing transformations and the emerging opportunities in the world of work. Nineteen core skills are listed as essential both for work and life.
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Infographic
Competency-Based Training (CBT): An Introductory Manual for Practitioners
The competency-based training (CBT) approach to TVET is highly effective to ensure that training programmes remain relevant to the labour market.