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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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