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

Gender dimensions in vocational training in Timor-Leste

This publication was focus on gender context in Timor-Leste, results of training-findings from the 2008 TVET Report, Employment/improved income, training Providers, graduates of training courses, employers, the analysis and response, and...

Labour market scenarios for the Asian Decent Work Decade in the Pacific Island countries

This paper presents key trends in the economies and labour markets of Pacific island countries and the main issues facing policy-makers in promoting decent and productive employment in these economies. It presents past trends and projections in...

Availability of data related to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Bangladesh

This study has attempted to map the sources of TVET-related data and assess their availability, reliability, and coverage. It will contribute to the development of a database on TVET to better inform the delivery planning and resource allocation...

Skills for improved productivity, employment growth and development. Report 97 V

This report seeks to examine how, within a decent work perspective, countries can develop their skills base so as to increase both the quantity and the productivity of labour employed in the economy. It analyses how strategies to upgrade and enhance...

Second edition, May 2008

GET Ahead for women in enterprise training package and resource kit

Targets women in poverty who want to start or are already engaged in small-scale business.

Major skills challenges facing SKILLS-AP member countries in 2008 and strategies to address them: review of country reports presented for...

This report provides a summary of the responses from 27 ILO member States in Asia and the Pacific.

Strengthening Regional Skills Network through Partnerships in Asia and the Pacific: report of ILO/SKILLS-AP/Korea Second Technical Meeting...

This meeting was to review the progress made in the revitalization of the Regional Skills Network and to explore the ways and means to make it more effective as a mechanism for sharing knowledge and expertise with and between countries in the region.

Gender and entrepreneurship together (GET Ahead) training implementation: impact assessment

Summarizes the main findings of an impact assessment (survey, focus group discussions and in-depth interviews) conducted in February 2008 for this GET Ahead training programme.

Report V - Skills for improved productivity, employment growth and development

Technical Vocational Education and Training Impact Assessment Report April 2008

This publication focuses on the impact assessment which conducted by SEFOPE and ILO to have a comprehensive information related to all the vocational training institutions which exist in Timor-Leste.

Skills development in the Pacific: The special skills development needs of small island economies: Report of ILO/SKILLS-AP/Japan Regional...

This meeting was set up to address the needs with the overall objective to discuss the key issues and major challenges for skills develoment in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) Special emphasis was to be placed on the development of national...

Issues in workplace learning in Asia and the Pacific - Report of ILO/SKILLS-AP/Japan/OVTA Regional Workshop and Study Programme on...

A workshop on workplace learning was held from 22nd through 30th January 2008 in Chiba, Japan. It was designed to assist partner organizations in countries in the region increase their awareness of the importance of workplace learning. The meeting...

Challenging the myths about learning and training in small and medium-sized enterprises : implications for public policy?

Employment Working Paper No. 1

Fact sheet - Disability discrimination at work

An estimated 470 million of the world's working age people have some form of disability. These disabilities differ in the nature of impairment as well as the degree of severity. In combination with these disabilities, issues such as gender, age and...

The right to work - executive summary ILO 2007

Social Finance Working Paper #49: Financial arrangements in informal apprenticeships

Determinants and effects: findings from urban Ghana

Lifelong learning

Lifelong learning in the Philippines

Lifelong learning is defined by the ILO as "all learning activities undertaken throughout life for the development of competencies and qualifications" where "competencies" cover the knowledge, skills, and know-how applied and mastered in a specific...

Assessment report of the vocational training in Timor-Leste: October 2007

This report assesment has been developed to contribute to identify all the training provider which exist in Timor-Leste during 2007.

Offshoring and the labour market : what are the issues?

Economic and Labour Market Paper 2007/11

Local Economic Development in El Salvador: Fostering women entrepreneurship to fight poverty

LED Story No. 10