Webinar on skills development and lifelong learning: The role of trade unions in Asia and Pacific

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The objectives

To highlight the role of trade unions in the following three dimensions:

1. In the implementation of the ILO Centenary Declaration, with a particular reference to “skills development and lifelong learning”;
   
2. In enhancing the employment and employability in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic recovery;
   
3. In preparedness of union position in the process of ILO standard-setting on apprenticeships, 2021-2022.

Discussant topics

• To introduce ILO policies on skills in general and the white report on apprenticeships (ILO SKILLS Department);
  
• To share the key contents of the publication, “Skills development and lifelong learning” (ACTRAV and SKILLS Departments);
  
• To share country cases

- Apprenticeships in Korea: Strengths and weaknesses (KLI)

- Vocational training capacity and governance in India or Bangladesh

- SMART Strategy for supporting jobs from the COVID crisis in Singapore (NTUC)

Participants

National and sectoral trade unions across Asia-Pacific

To attend, please register here via Zoom