All resources: Bangladesh

Standards and Curriculum Development Committee (SCDC) Meetings

The upcoming SCDC meetings include: IT Support Technician, Baker, and Food Technician. Additional meetings are scheduled for April and May.

Apprenticeship Pilots – TVET Reform Project

This paper provides a brief description of the pilots which aim to test various approaches to apprenticeship both formal and informal ranging from highly structured to more loosely structured and which are targeted at different groups, for example,...

TVET Reform Project discussion paper Industry Skills Councils

This paper sets out a rationale and proposal for the establishment of a network of Industry Skills Councils (ISC) in Bangladesh.

Centre of Excellence Agro Food Skills Foundation (CEAFS) organized a workshop on WPL in Dhaka

In this workshop presentations by experts covered the following areas: global practices of WPL and linkage between TVET & Enterprises; experiences of WPL in export-oriented industry; a Japanese productivity tool – KAIZEN; and importance of WPL.

ILO Director-General expresses support for reform and change in Egypt

Mr. Juan Somavia, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), expressed ILO support for the establishment of freedom of association and other labour market and economic reforms in Egypt while concluding an official visit...

Making the crisis recovery work for women!

ILO to mark 100th international women’s day

Joint programme to address violence against women - VAW (Midterm Joint Evaluation)

Project BGD/10/50/UND - Evaluator: Angélica Arbulú - Donor for this Joint Project is the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund Total Budget $ 8 million UNFPA (lead): $4,889,867; UNDP:$385,200; ILO: $470,800; WHO: $171,200;...

Technical and vocational education training (TVET) reform in Bangladesh (Mid Term External Evaluation Summary)

Project BGD/09/01/EEC, BGD/06/01/EEC - Evaluation consultants: David Smawfield and Sevilla Leowinata

Green Jobs Initiatives in Bangladesh: The Experiences of Grameen Shakti

Presentation by Dr. M.S. Islam, Head of International Cooperation and Development Department, Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh

Asia Pacific job recovery lagging economic growth

ILO Global Employment Trends 2011 cites concerns including inflation, youth unemployment, working poverty.

Programme review

Bangladesh Decent Work Country Programme review 2006-2009

The report on the review of the 2006-2009 Bangladesh DWCP includes a brief summary of the country context, progress towards each of the four outcomes, a discussion of how gender issues factored into the implementation of the DWCP, progress relative...

TVET Reform Project Update

November,2011– for complete list of last month’s major achievements and upcoming activities this month (4 print-ready pages).

Project brief of Green Jobs in Asia project in Bangladesh

Discussion paper

Industrial Skills Councils for Bangladesh

This paper sets out a rationale and proposal for the establishment of a network of Industry Skills Councils (ISC) in Bangladesh.

Tripartite consultation

Measuring Decent Work Indicators for Bangladesh

This report is as a result of a workshop following the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (2008), which recommends establishment of appropriate indicators or statistics to monitor the progress made in the implementation of...

National background study

Monitoring and Assessing Progress on Decent Work in Bangladesh

Information on Informal Employment from Nepal Labour Force Surveys

Session 5: Introduction to Regional Initiatives on Measuring Informal Employment: Cases of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Measuring the Informal Employment in Bangladesh

Skills for green jobs in Bangladesh

Background country study