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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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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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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ILO Skills Structured Funding Dialogue
The objective of this event is to bring together development partners to seek their commitment and support to the Global Programme on Skills and Lifelong Learning.
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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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e-formality and skills development
Pitch Day: The power of innovation
During the event, the finalists of the 2nd Skills Challenge Innovation Call will present their ideas to boost formalization through technology and skills development in the region.
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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.
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Investing in career guidance
This leaflet, authored by six international agencies, reflects on the crucial role of career guidance in supporting youth and adults in skilling, re-skilling and securing successful careers and livelihoods during economic recovery.
