Resources on Skills and employability in the Arab States
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Competency Based Training
19 November 2014
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Skills anticipation
19 November 2014
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Governance of skills development systems
19 November 2014
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ILO to engage in Gaza reconstruction efforts through expansion of its Palestinian Decent Work Programme
29 October 2014
Regional Director’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territory lays the groundwork for expanding the ILO’s work in Gaza, and consolidating national decent work initiatives.
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Improving Jordan’s performance management of the National Employment Strategy and Employment-Technical Vocational Education and Training institutions
The ILO conducts a series of training activities to support performance management of the National Employment Strategy (NES) and the Employment, Technical - Vocational Education and Training (ETVET) System.
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Reaffirming and promoting rights during transition: development results 2012-2013
30 June 2014
By looking at a narrow set of indicators, such as the rate of privatization, trade openness, debt, inflation and foreign direct investment, most analysts had concluded that Arab countries were on the right track economically in the lead up to the Arab uprisings.
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Kuwait contributes US$500,000 to support ILO activities in the occupied Palestinian territory
01 April 2014
The State of Kuwait grants the ILO half a million US dollars bringing the State’s total contributions dedicated to promoting decent work and social justice in the occupied Palestinian territory and the Arab States to US$3 million since 2009.
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Upgrading Apprenticeships: route to Decent Work in Jordan
27 March 2014
The ILO project ''Tripartite Action for Youth Employment in Jordan'' works with the government as well as workers' and employers' representatives to tackle youth employment issues in the country. One of the project's components is the upgrading of apprenticeships, which aims at improving practices in the informal sector. The video examines some of the elements of upgrading apprenticeship systems through the piloting of the programme in the auto repair sector.
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Tackling Jordan’s youth unemployment hands-on
27 March 2014
The ILO and its partners use apprenticeship programmes to fight youth unemployment in Jordan.
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Jordan examines methods to enhance apprenticeships
Various stakeholders meet with the ILO to analyse existing apprenticeships in Jordan and methods to improve their effectiveness.