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

Training tools

Think.CareCoop and Start.CareCoop

ILO capacity-building tools for quality care services through cooperatives.

Think.CareCoop

Think.CareCoop facilitator’s guide

Think.CareCoop facilitator’s guide provides in-depth information on how to organize and facilitate training sessions. The guide explains how to plan a training session, offers guidance on facilitation techniques, and includes step-by-step...

Formalization

Research brief: Returns to education in Viet Nam: Earnings, education and the transition to formality

This brief explores whether higher qualifications still lead to better earnings in Viet Nam, and how education and training shape workers’ transitions from informal to formal employment.

Training manual for trainers

Skills development and responsible business conduct

Fundamental principles and rights at work, skills for digital transformation, and skills for environmental sustainability.

Policy Brief

Mainstreaming disability inclusion in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Africa

This policy brief focuses on how mainstream Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and skills development systems can improve the labour market situation of persons with disabilities in Africa.

ILO Working paper 137

The untapped potential of disadvantaged young people for apprenticeships in skilled trades

This paper seeks to identify the influencing factors of quality apprenticeships and elaborates possible reasons why young people in low-reputation apprenticeships drop out more often than those in popular professions.

Digitalisation and blending of training programmes: A practical guide for skills development

This guide offers a structured, step-by-step approach for transitioning traditional, face-to-face training programmes into blended and digitally enabled formats.

Microcredentials for youth and work

This report examines the value of alternative learning opportunities that lead to microcredentials, with a focus on youth, as a flexible and cost-effective way of acquiring skills and validating competencies to enhance signalling mechanisms among...

Guidance note

Integrating skills for just transition in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) 3.0

Research Brief

Measuring Quality of Employment in Emerging Economies: A Methodology for Assessing Job Amenities using Big Data

This brief presents a novel methodology that leverages online vacancy data and natural language processing (NLP) to measure job amenities across different country contexts.

Skills development

Brief: Towards a skills strategy for the textile and garment industry in Viet Nam

The brief highlights the achievements, opportunities, and challenges of Viet Nam’s textile and garment industry amid increasing international integration and participation in global value chains. It provides key recommendations for developing a...

Research Brief

Generative AI and the media and culture industry

The brief explores the transformative impact of Generative AI (GenAI) on the media and culture industry, analyzing its effects on job exposure, skills demand, and employment conditions. It highlights the need for policy frameworks, ethical AI...

Seven country cases review

Skills needs intelligence to inform migration policy and governance

This study investigates how seven countries—spanning advanced economies (United Kingdom and Canada) and emerging markets (Bangladesh, Guyana, Malaysia, India, and South Africa)—leverage skills needs intelligence to inform migration policies.

VCT@WORK

A toolkit for HIV workplace peer educators on HIV voluntary counselling and testing at work

This toolkit is developed for training HIV peer educators at workplaces. Developed under the ILO’s Voluntary Counselling and Testing at the Workplace (VCT@WORK) Initiative, the toolkit provides guidance and tools – training methodology, exercises,...

Research Brief

Developing a New Method to Uncover Skills Trends in Emerging Economies Using Online Data and NLP techniques

This research brief outlines a novel methodology using online big data and natural language processing (NLP) to analyze transferable skills trends across diverse sectors and countries, offering insights into skills demand, supply, mismatches, and...

Quality Apprenticeships

Guide for Policymakers - Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation, 2023 (No. 208)

This ILO guide supports the implementation of Quality Apprenticeships in line with Recommendation 208.

Fact sheet

Supporting a Talent Partnership with Bangladesh

This publication provides comprehensive information about the Talent Partnership project, which is implemented by ILO Bangladesh and funded by the European Union.

Report for the Technical Meeting

Promotion of decent work and a just transition, including skills development and lifelong learning, in the food and beverage industry

Report for the Technical Meeting on the Promotion of Decent Work and a Just Transition, Including Skills Development and Lifelong Learning in the Food and Beverage Industry (Geneva, 27–31 January 2025)

ILO-UNEP-IUCN report

Decent Work in Nature-Based Solutions 2024: Unlocking jobs through investment in skills and nature-based infrastructure

The second report in a biennial series on decent work, just transition and nature-based solutions

Skills anticipation survey: the manufacturing sector in Lebanon

As Lebanon explores its path to recovery, productivity is considered key to developing a more sustainable economy. The manufacturing sector has shown significant resilience to ongoing economic and political instability, sustaining value-added...