All publications: vocational training + vocational guidance

Skills and labour market transitions for refugees and host communities

Tracer study: Skills Profiling Application in Egypt for refugees and host communities

ILO PROSPECTS Egypt in collaboration with Skilllab, a social start-up based in the Netherlands, and the Association of Businessmen in Alexandria (ABA), piloted a skills-profiling application that enables refugees and host communities to self-assess...

Employment Working Group

Initial review of community-based vocational training (CBVT) in G20 countries

This report was prepared by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for the 1st G20 Employment Group Meeting in 2022. It addresses one of the priorities identified by the Indonesian Presidency.

ILO Working paper 49

How to strengthen informal apprenticeship systems for a better future of work?: Lessons learned from comparative analysis of country cases

This paper undertakes a meta study on informal apprenticeship in developing countries. It compares the findings of country-level research conducted by the ILO and others in the past 15 years to shed more light on apprenticeship systems in the...

Guidelines

Guidelines on the setting-up of effective job centres in developing countries with reference to Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and...

These Guidelines on how to establish job centres (employment service centres) were developed in response to calls from ILO constituents and the YouMatch Project partner countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa regions.

A review of skills testing and certification in TVET in Lebanon

This report reviews the existing skills testing and certification systems of public and private technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programs in Lebanon, by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the existing final summative...

A guide for employment services practical training package for employment services staff in Indonesia

This practical training package is design to improve the basic capacity of Employment Services staff members in order to provide better services to their clients – jobseekers and employers.

A guide for employment services theoretical (e-learning) training package for employment services staff in Indonesia

This theoretical training package is design to improve the basic capacity of Employment Services staff members in order to provide better services to their clients – jobseekers and employers.

Policy Brief

Digitalisation of TVET and skills development: Leveraging technology to support lifelong learning

This policy brief concentrates on the digital transformation of skills systems and how technologies affect them. It is focused on how skills systems themselves become digitised, not how they respond to the demand for skills arising from...

Digitalization of national TVET and skills systems: Harnessing technology to support LLL

This report describes and updates the picture of digital vocational education and training, providing an overview of the issues surrounding digitalisation across the key functional areas of skills systems.

Report

Quality assurance and accreditation in technical and vocational education and training in Lebanon

This report analyses quality assurance and accreditation mechanisms in Lebanon in light of regional and global best practices to inform efforts towards the development of a national quality assurance framework.

Promoting Social Cohesion and Peaceful Coexistence in Fragile Contexts through TVET -Facilitator handbook

Facilitator handbook to accompany the Guide for TVET practitioners

Publication

Towards decent work for young refugees and host communities in the digital platform economy in Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Egypt

This report explores job creation in the gig economy from the unique experiences and perspectives of youth and refugees, as well as from the viewpoint of digital labour and e-commerce platforms, digital training providers, start-up incubators,...

TVET system assessment in Somali and Tigray regional states, Ethiopia, with a focus on inclusiveness

The report examines the relevant features of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system in terms of access for forcibly displaced people, refugees, women and people with disabilities (PwD), focusing on the Fafan and Degehabur...

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) mapping for refugees, asylum seekers and host communities in Egypt

Promoting Social Cohesion and Peaceful Coexistence in Fragile Contexts through TVET - Guide for TVET practitioners

This Guide aims to assist ILO constituents and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) practitioners to strengthen the role of skills development policies and programmes in peacebuilding efforts through inclusive learning...

Skills development in the time of COVID-19: Taking stock of the initial responses in technical and vocational education and training

Rapid assessment of information and communication technology skills demand in Indonesia

This rapid assessment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skill demands was conducted by analyzing available job vacancies and direct survey of companies.

Skills - Vocational Training

Skills for Prosperity in Malaysia project (SfP-Malaysia)

Competency-Based Training (CBT): An Introductory Manual for Practitioners

The overall purpose of this manual is to provide guidance to TVET developers, administrators and instructors on the design, delivery and assessment of competency-based training (CBT) programmes.