All publications: skilled workers + unskilled workers + training + skills + lifelong learning + education and training

Kenya's fodder sector skills assessment

Skills gap assessment in the fodder sector that promotes inclusive decent employment and productive livelihood in Nakuru, Narok and Kajiado...

This assessment identifies the skills needed to strengthen Kenya’s fodder value chain and expand inclusive, decent employment in Nakuru, Narok and Kajiado counties.

Publication

Changing landscape of skills in the age of AI

AI adoption is reshaping workplace skills, increasing demand for cognitive, socioemotional, digital and AI skills, while highlighting AI literacy, adaptability, resilience and human agency as essential for the future of work.

Publication

Employment, skills and economic inclusion in Cox’s Bazar: An analysis of labour market dynamics and trends

ILO project office in Cox's Bazar's latest analysis, Employment, skills and economic inclusion in Cox’s Bazar: An analysis of labour market dynamics and trends, prepared using the socio-economic and demographic survey 2023 (SEDS-2023) to provide the...

Facilitator's Manual

Competency-Based Training for apprentice trainers in companies

Powering the future: Critical energy transition minerals and the workforce of tomorrow

This brief presents skills insight on critical energy transition mineral sector.

Brief

Generative AI and labour markets in ASEAN: Significant exposure, limited disruption, uneven preparedness

The brief finds that while generative AI has the potential to reshape work in ASEAN, there is little evidence of widespread labour market disruption so far, with future outcomes depending largely on countries' preparedness, policy choices and...

Factsheet

PROSPECTS Partnership Sudan: Strengthening Protection, Economic and Social Inclusion in the Midst of Crisis

This factsheet outlines the PROSPECTS Partnership’s support in Sudan amid the world’s largest displacement crisis. It highlights efforts to strengthen protection, education, decent work, social protection and critical infrastructure for refugees,...

Factsheet

PROSPECTS Partnership Jordan: Promoting Resilience, Decent Work and Social Cohesion

This factsheet outlines how the PROSPECTS Partnership is supporting Jordan’s efforts to promote resilience, decent work and social cohesion for refugees and host communities. It focuses on strengthening protection, education, livelihoods and...

Factsheet

ILO PROSPECTS: Results at a glance

This “Results at a Glance” factsheet presents key figures from the overall PROSPECTS Partnership, highlighting its reach, achievements and contribution to longer-term solutions for forcibly displaced persons and host communities. It summarizes ILO’s...

Factsheet

PROSPECTS Partnership Iraq: Building Pathways to Inclusion and Opportunity for Forcibly Displaced People

This factsheet outlines how the PROSPECTS Partnership is supporting Iraq’s efforts to expand inclusion and opportunity for refugees, IDPs and host communities. It focuses on strengthening protection, education, livelihoods, social protection and...

Factsheet

PROSPECTS Partnership Uganda: Expanding Opportunities for Refugees and Host Communities

This factsheet outlines how the PROSPECTS Partnership is supporting Uganda’s progressive refugee response by expanding opportunities for refugees and host communities. It focuses on turning inclusive policies into practical results through...

Factsheet

PROSPECTS Partnership Egypt: Expanding Hope and Opportunity

This factsheet outlines how the PROSPECTS Partnership is supporting Egypt as it responds to growing refugee and asylum pressures, particularly following the Sudan crisis. It focuses on linking humanitarian and development efforts to expand...

Just transition

Enabling a just transition for Japanese automotive parts SMEs

This report examines how Japanese automotive parts SMEs are adapting to electrification and other industry transformations, and identifies the support needed to enable a just transition for workers and enterprises.

Report

From experience to opportunity: Unlocking skills through RPL

This report presents the outcomes of the Regional Training and Experience-Sharing Workshop on RPL, held in Nairobi, Kenya, under the framework of the PROSPECTS partnership and the ILO’s Global Skills Programme.

EU-funded ILO PROSPER Project

Situational analysis - Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Systems in Southern Belize

This situational analysis serves as the foundation for strengthening TVET systems in Southern Belize. The study applies the ILO Skills System Assessment Tool and ILO Guide on Making TVET Inclusive to examine three dimensions: (a) developing,...

Guidance note

Designing Apprenticeships: A Guidance Note for Practitioners and Policy-makers in Africa

Apprenticeships are a key pathway into decent work for millions of young people across Africa, yet many systems face persistent challenges around quality, inclusiveness and relevance.

Report

Skills profiling of Syrian returnees

The report highlights unemployment, skills gaps, and limited training access, calling for inclusive, localised, and market-aligned programmes to support sustainable economic reintegration and employment opportunities.

Report

Skills profiling of Syrian refugees in Lebanon

This report highlights barriers, return intentions, and recommendations for inclusive, market-driven employment and training programmes.

Regional Research Brief

Lifelong learning and skills for the future: Insights for Africa

This regional brief explores how lifelong learning and skills development can support resilience, inclusion and decent work in Africa. Drawing on new data and analysis, it highlights access gaps, shifting skills demand and priorities for building...

Regional Research Brief

Lifelong learning and skills for the future: Insights for Asia and the Pacific

This regional brief examines how lifelong learning can help Asia and the Pacific respond to rapid labour market transformations. It highlights low participation in training, persistent access gaps, and the need for inclusive, flexible and...