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

Making full use of competency standards: A handbook for governments, employers, workers and training organizations

This handbook provides the various ways that these competency standards can be used by governments, employers, workers and training organizations.

Pacific business awareness trainers' guide: Generate your business idea

The Business Awareness Trainer’s Guide has been developed by the International Labour Office (ILO) to supplement the Start Your Business (SYB) program in Pacific Island Countries. The programme is designed to enable people, including young men and...

Recognition of prior learning

The recognition of prior learning requires the recognition and acceptance by any training organizations of the qualifications and statements of skills issued by other RTOs and registered assessors enabling individuals to receive national recognition...

Skills development in the workplace: Report of the ILO/SKILLS-AP/Japan Regional Workshop and Study Programme on Skills Development in the...

This is a report of a tripartite regional workshop and study programme covering a wide range of issues relating to learning within the workplace.

SIMPOC Training modules on child labour data collection, processing, analysis and reporting

In this manual, SIMPOC has developed a complete and self-contained training kit for practitioners collecting, processing, analyzing and reporting data related to child labour.

Village banking in Lao PDR, ledger guide

This guide elaborates on how to fill in and use the ledger. The ledger is used to show expenditure and income by the type of item (e.g. membership fees, loans, or interest).

Village banking in Lao PDR, handbook for village bank management committees and support organizations

The handbook consists of three parts. Part I explains what village banking is about, how village banks work and what principles help to ensure their success. Part II on the operation of village banks covers savings and loan policies, management,...

Arab Forum on Development and Employment (Conference Papers)

The ILO prepared five issue papers as a contribution towards the Arab Forum on Development and Employment.

Sala set making

Training guide on wooden furniture (sala set making)

Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) builds on the experience gained in earlier community-based training (CBT) projects in Mindanao and in many other countries. These CBT projects proved to be very successful at creating livelihood...

Brochure - Skills and entrepreneurship: Bridging the technology and gender divide

November 2008 theme of the Gender Equality at the Heart of Decent Work Campaign, 2008-2009

A national technical and vocational qualification framework for Bangladesh

This paper describes the National Technical and Vocational Qualifications Framework (NTVQF) proposed for Bangladesh. The proposal was developed after review of qualification frameworks in other countries and local consultations with government,...

Business group formation

The Business Group Formation (BGF) manual was developed with a view to help promote business group formation as a way to empower women and men in low-income communities by giving them more voice and improving their businesses in order to enhance...

Fact sheet - Regional Skills and Employability Programme for Asia and the Pacific (SKILLS-AP)

Fact sheet - SKILLS-AP and support for people with disabilities

Employment challenge and strategies in India

The present paper looks at the employment challenges faced by India within the framework of “ten core elements” identified by the Global Employment Agenda of the ILO. These elements relate to trade and investment, technological change, sustainable...

MATCOM Cooperative management training

Skills, productivity and employment growth. The case of Latin America

The aim of this study is to illustrate the relations between training and workers' skills, productivity and the growth of quality employment in societies in Latin America by means of an analysis of the existing information and case studies of four...

Vocational training and productivity

Due to their contribution to the development of skills and competencies, vocational training institutions are a source of comparative advantages to promote the growth in productivity and reflect such growth in more and better jobs. A better access...

Conclusions on skills for improved productivity, employment growth and development

International Labour Conference, 2008

The employment effects of North-South trade and technological change

Employment Working Paper No. 22