National Skills Policies and Lifelong Learning
2 May 2024
National policies to improve the development and use of skills can emerge from a number of policy domains, not necessarily restricted to education and labour. The crosscutting nature of skills means that local and regional development, trade, industry and migration policies are all relevant to skills and national efforts to build a lifelong learning system.
ILO work in this area supports constituents to develop, monitor, evaluate and review skills policies, with research and technical assistance addressing different technical issues at different stages of the policy cycle. Work under this area also contributed to development of the G20 Training Strategy, where the ILO set out a number of key building blocks of skills policies and systems.
Publications
World Bank / ILO / UNESCO joint study
Building Better Formal TVET Systems - Principles and Practice in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
TVET Mapping: Social Partners
ILO Skills System Assessment Tool
A review of Entitlement Systems for Lifelong Learning
The Digitization of TVET and Skills Systems
Skills for Employment Policy Brief - Distance and Online Learning during the time of COVID-19
Concept Paper
Lifelong learning: Concepts, issues and actions
Lifelong Learning in the Informal Economy: A Literature Review
Global Commission on the Future of Work
Work for a brighter future
Policy brief
Making TVET and skills systems inclusive of persons with disabilities
Comparative analysis of national skills development policies: A guide for policy makers
Skills for Employment Policy Brief - Formulating a national policy on skills development