This Conference aims to showcase the establishment and implementation of National Vocational Qualifications Framework (NVQF) and to share the experience of Sri Lanka with countries in SA and SEA region.
The regional activity of the Japan funded 2010 Programme (ILO/Regional Skills Programme/Japan Skills Development in Asia and the Pacific 2010) entitled “Addressing Skills Mismatch through PPP” has clearly indicated that a strong partnership between government, employers and workers is an essential feature of an effective and enduring bond between the world of learning and the world of work. The findings of the 2010 regional activity also included an expression of a strong interest, by the participating countries, for further technical inputs on Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS). It has been agreed that the lack of LMI (and skills data) is one of the reasons behind the skills mismatch (existence of both large number of vacancies and high unemployment) and a major constraint for policy making. In this connection, this national workshop will help provide an opportunity for stakeholders in the India skills ecosystem to meet the objectives listed in the section below. Kindly refer to the attachments for your information.
The ILO finds that robust training policies and systems are ground in the characteristics and institutions of each country. Nevertheless, a number of common building blocks can be identified. A good skills development system will be able to: anticipate skills needs; engage employers and workers in training, including the specific sectors; maintenance of quality and relevance of training; making training accessible to all sections of society; ensure viable and equitable financing mechanisms; and continuously evaluate the economic and social outcomes of training. Labour market information consists of information on the size and composition of labour market and includes information pertaining to the two sides of the labour market, demand and supply, and how they interact with each other. LMI uses may range from assessing employment problems, fixing employment targets and identifying employment intensive technologies and investments, to assessing the relevance of existing courses and identification of new courses for educational development including identification of implementation needs, identification of eligible beneficiaries, etc. LMI is very important in anticipating skills damnd in the labour market. A number of methods are used to forecast future skills needs. These include forecasting occupational and skills profiles at various levels of disaggregation; social dialogue; labour market information system (LMIS); and analysis of the performance of training institutions, including tracer studies.
To train employment counsellors working in the Employment Service Job Centers (ESJC’s) providing employment services and employment counselling that are designed to assist unemployed LAO workers looking for domestic and/or foreign employment find suitable jobs.
Skills for improved productivity, employment growth and development
The International Training Centre of the ILO and the ILO Skills and Employability Department, in cooperation with the French Development Agency (AFD), German International Development Cooperation (GIZ), and the Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation are offering a two weeks international Skills Development Academy.
Its purpose is to stimulate learning and knowledge exchange on major policy challenges and options for building effective, responsive and inclusive skills development systems and to discuss some of the latest trends in the area of skills development and TVET.
The Academy is aimed primarily at participants from developing and middle-income countries. The main language will be English with
interpretation into French and Portuguese. Interested candidates should have a good command of at least one of these languages.
The Inter-agency Programme to Nurture Peace, Security and Decent Work through Local Development in Conflict Areas of the Philippines (Bondoc LED) seeks to contribute in addressing short-term and long-term skills deficiency in the country-side by implementing technical-vocational skills training in collaboration with Quezon National Agricultural School (QNAS) and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). The training is aimed at providing skills to the youth to help them in finding employment opportunities or starting their own business. The training is in partnership with the Technical Education and Skills Development Auhority, Quezon National Agricultural School.
UNESCO is convening the 15th UNESCO-APEID International Conference, Inspiring Education: Creativity and Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with the World Bank and the Ministry of National Education in Indonesia, to foster discussions on creativity and entrepreneurship, and strengthen their linkages in education and the workplace.
This online training course that runs from 14 September to 4 December 2009 aims to contribute to the inclusion and empowerment of disabled people in societies and more specifically in the world of work, with a view to ensuring income security, decent working conditions and full participation. It has been designed as a joint effort by the ILO Disability Team, which promotes equality of opportunity and treatment for persons with disabilities in vocational rehabilitation, training and employment and works to increase knowledge on the training and employment of people with disabilities, and the Intermational Ttraining Centre of the ILO, which is putting its learning methodologies and applied technologies at the disposal of this ultimate goal.
CBR focuses on enhancing the quality of life for people with disabilities and their families, meeting basic needs and ensuring inclusion and participation. CBR is a multi-sectoral approach and has 5 major components: health, education, livelihood, social and empowerment. CBR was developed in the 1980s, to give people with disabilities access to rehabilitation in their own communities using predominantly local resources.
Representatives of persons with disabilities from across the region participated in the meeting which aimed to review the implementation of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2012. The meeting considered the possibility of a new regional decade for persons with disabilities for the period 2013-2022 and to explored subregional approaches to promote the effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
This workshop serves to finalize the draft bill on employment and vocational training for people with disabilities and recommend regulations for the Government Decrees.
Disability Equality Training
(ILO Conference Room, 11th Floor Block A, UN Building, Rajdamnern Nok Avenue, Bangkok, Thailand, from
Sep 04, 2009 08:30 AM to
Sep 04, 2009 12:30 PM)
The purpose of the training is to sensitize participants to disability issues in the context of the programmes, projects and activities they support. It will introduce the basic tools and concepts that are needed to make changes to these activities. The session will be conducted by Ms Maureen Gilbert, an international expert who has also provided similar training to ILO staff in other regions.
Employability is the ability to gain, or sustain, wage or self employment. Education and Training in VET Systems is key for ensuring employability of youth and adults under changing condition of labour markets.
Attended by Government focal points on disability, representatives of organizations of persons with disabilities, UN agencies and other key stakeholders, including development agencies and civil society organizations. The objectives were to: (1) review the achievements and lessons learnt as well as the remaining challenges from the second Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons; and (2) advise the ESCAP secretariat on the way forward beyond the 2012 period bearing in mind the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to review and conclude the second Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons in 2012.
International conference organised by the Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education (CPSC), UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for TVET in Bonn and Capacity Building Internationale (InWent) – Germany
The International Conference aims to examine the issues and challenges in developing Qualifications Framework in the national, regional, and global contexts; present tested models, conceptual frameworks and showcase
different case studies/research papers with respect to developing qualifications framework, and exchange experiences and innovative practices in the development and implementation of National Qualifications Framework and Quality Assurance in TVET sector in Colombo Plan countries.
The purposes of the meeting are to share information about project activities and technical resources planned or in production. This will include the role of skills development and employment services in the Decent Work Country Programme and within the context of ILO’s priorities and planned activities during the next biennium. The role of Technical cooperation will be discussed and the global tools and products which should support TC in implementation and adaptation of these tools and products. Further, there will be the identification of gaps in existing resources, areas where assistance or support is needed as well as agreement on strategies for the future sharing of information. While it is recognized that all countries have different needs, the meeting will also investigate the potential for a more consistent ILO message with regard to skills development in technical cooperation projects.
The objectives of the workshop are to assist member Stated strengthen approaches to workplace learning and to improve systems to ensure the quality of skills development.
This Regional Workshop is jointly organized by the ILO and AOTS (Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship, Japan) and aims to assist tripartite delegations from selected countries in the region to discuss and find effective ways to develop partnerships between training institutions and industries in making the skills development system more responsive to labour market needs and to reduce skills mismatch.
By the end of the Workshop, the participants are expected to have deepened knowledge of:
- issues and causes of skills mismatch, and the role of partnerships in overcoming the issues;
- different approaches in developing partnerships in terms of policy environments, institutional framework and incentives;
- methodologies and experiences regarding anticipating, or analyzing, the industry’s skills demands, and how to go about developing ‘feasible’ systems of labour market information;
- different mechanisms and ways by which skills standards, qualifications and programmes are designed by incorporating the industry’s skills needs;
- issues and approaches in enhancing public and private employment services.
The Workshop will share the experiences at both international and national levels, including that of Japan and participating countries.
The Workshop also provides an opportunity for the tripartite delegation from each country to reflect the sessions together, and discuss among themselves their respective roles in achieving the partnerships and come up with a draft national action plan at the end of the workshop.
This workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to share experience on how the sending countries organize and manage the skills recognition of their returning workers.
This workshop is aimed to share information and experience on successful public private partnerships in order to enhance and support skills development in ASEAN countries.
A joint initiative of two ILO projects: INCLUDE and WEDGE that promote and support the inclusion of women and men with disabilities in enterprise development initiatives. Two Inclusive GET Ahead training courses for women and men entrepreneurs or people who want to start a small-scale business will be delivered by the Lao Disabled Women’s Development Centre in Vientiane Province and Oudomxay Province.
The aim of the 2011 ICVET conference is to highlight different ways and approache, in order to integrate better concepts of human resource, organization, and financing/infrastructure within the role of vocational education in the preparation of professional labor force in its widest sense. International and national experts, researchers, practitioners, teachers, and people who are interested in the issue are welcomed to participate in the conference.
This year's International Women's Day is celebrated under the theme, "Equal access to education, training, and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women".
This event aims to discuss strategies to promote the mainstreaming of disability perspectives in ASEAN Community. The Preparation Committee of ASEAN Disability Forum will be organized as an outcome of this conference.
This programme aims to enhance better and more extensive knowledge and information about the TREE programme.
By the end of the seminar, the participants are expected to: gain better and more extensive knowledge and information about the TREE programme; learn and understand in detail the TREE modules, processes and tools and how to adapt them
share TREE country experiences, good practices and lessons learned in different national contexts; mainstream TREE in national development policies, strategies and programmes; and integrate the TREE programme as a component of broader technical cooperation projects like youth employment and local development strategies.
The Regional Workshop on the Enhacement of ICT Accessbility for Persons with Disabilities will take place in Incheon, Republic of Korea at the United Nations Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT) on 13-15 October 2009.
The theme of the conference is "Innovation with Vitality, Development for Inclusion." The conference is hosted by the Guangzhou Disabled Persons' Federation and co-organized by the Guangzhou Association of Disabled Women. The conference aims to share the experiences of countries or regions in safeguarding the rights and interests of women with disabilities.
The discussion will focus on the role of Regional Model Competency Standards for mutual skills recognition in the region - seeking your experiences, expertise and feedback on the issue. More details will be issued in the coming days.
Workability Asia is the regional group created in April 2004, by Workability International members operating in the Asia geographical region. The regional group maintains its links with the members of the Asian and Pacific Work Center Network for People with Disability. The Workability Asia Conference is planned for 2-4 June 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand.
The ILO and its Regional Skills Programme (RSP), in collaboration with the Government of Japan and the Japan Vocational Ability Development Associate (JAVADA), is organizing this Workshop which will be held in Sendai, Japan during 27 February to 1 March 2012. This Workshop is designed to provide opportunities for participating countries to improve knowledge on the analysis of future skills needs, on research methods and conducive institutional frameworks; develop proposals for how to build a system for early identification of skills needs to meet future skills needs; discuss how to ensure effective communication and collaboration between government, employers and workers, training experts, education and training providers, labour market information systems and employment services to make use of skills data, including for effective vocational guidance of jobseekers. This will enable the participating member countries to improve national skills data and Labour Market Information (LMI) which can guide policy makers in deciding on how to invest their limited resources.
In recent years, the Asia and Pacific region has made significant strides in recognizing disability as a human rights issue, and in addressing the challenges that people with disabilities face in their efforts to contribute economically, socially, and politically to their societies. Increasing progress can be recorded in the area of young people getting access to education. However, despite this progress, people with disabilities continue to be discriminated against in society and the labour market. For this target group, the ILO set forth its Decent Work agenda, which emphasizes universal access to skills development and productive employment for vulnerable groups, such as people with disabilities, women, and youth. The ILO’s labour standards, policy initiatives, and programmes, ensure the advancement and effective realization of this goal.
Indonesia’s progress to the inclusion of persons with disabilities can be attributed to measures taken such as signing the 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCPRD), creating the National Plan of Action for the Measure of Social Welfare Enhancement for Indonesia’s People with Disabilities (2004-2013), and ratification of ILO Convention No. 111 Discrimination (Employment and Occupation). First steps towards ratification of ILO Convention No. 159 Rehabilitation and Vocational Training (Disabled People) have been made. Indonesia has a quota provision (No. 43/98), yet access to employment options for youth and people with disabilities remains limited.
Cambodia’s first ever Youth Employment Forum will take place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia at the Phnom Penh Hotel on 15-16 December 2011. The Royal Government of Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training and the Ministry of Education Youth and Sport are the national co-organizers. The ILO is the technical lead agency in organizing the Forum in close collaboration with the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Cambodia, UNDP, UNESCO, UNV, the National Employment Agency, employers’ and workers’ organizations, key youth NGOs, and other relevant partners.
Governments and social partners’ skills experts from the ILO member States in this region commonly acknowledges the role of skills development to meet challenges and agreed that Regional Skills Network (RSN) remains to be a common platform for improving the capacity of member States on skills issues by improving cooperation between partners and improve the knowledge base. This fellowship is one such joint activities with the Human Resources Development Service of Korea (HRD Korea) that will help build the capacities of our member States in relation to TVET which will help with the realization of one of the ILO's strategic objectives under the regional priorities and outcomes of 2010-11 and contribute to the DWCP outcomes that relate to skills and employability.
Ms Olga Strietska-Ilina, Skills Development Specialist from HQ-EMP/SKILLS, has been invited to present at the workshop on "Social Dimensions of Climate Change" in Seoul, organized by GGGI-ADB on 4 October 2011.
During her mission in Asia, Olga will come to Bangkok and will have the opportunity to present the findings of the Global study on skills for green jobs (21 countries in collaboration with CEDEFOP; for Asia, these countries include Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Philippines and Thailand.) and of the research sponsored by the EC on green skills anticipation methodologies and case studies on the renewable energy and the green construction industries.
Skills recognition and qualifications reform have dominated national international debates on training and skills development in recent years. However, lack of systematic and inclusive skills recognition through transparent mechanisms for the assessment of structured workplace training and experience are further complicated in the case of international migration, as there are no commonly agreed frameworks or standards to facilitate recognition across countries. The major challenge in qualifications reforms therefore is to develop a system that is more inclusive, flexible, accessible and transparent, yet does not undermine its quality and credibility.
The Government of Lao PDR is committed to further the development of national Employment Services (ES) to benefit all people in Lao PDR. These commitments are reflected in a series of policy frameworks adopted in recent years like the MOLSW Master Plan (2007-2020), the National Socio-Economic Development Plan (2011-2015), the MOLSW Strategic Plan on Skills Formation and Employment Promotion and other decrees and regulations relating to skills development and employment. In this regard, the ILO has successfully helped establish Employment Service Job Centres (ESJC) in Vientiane Capital, Savannakhet, Champasack, Vientiane, Bolikhamxay and Khammouane provinces. The ESJC has 3 main functions: the provision of employment job brokering services, the collection of labour market information (LMI), and the provision of Advisory and Information Services. To strengthen the services of the ESJC, a series of activities have been planned starting from 24 October - 30 November 2011. This event announcement highlights the remaining activity which is the "Step-down training on employment counselling for district officials in Vientiane Capital, Vientiane, Bolikhamxay, Khammouane, Savannakhet and Champasak provinces" that is scheduled to take place during 14-30 November 2011. More information can be obtained from the attached document and briefed below.
The objective of this workshop is to explore varied approaches to Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in TVET in Cambodia. The study report on TVET/Industry PPP for sustainable engagement will be presented, and PPP approaches for possible pilot implemention identified and proposed during the workshop.
This event is hosted by Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI, Lao PDR) with technical support from the ILO. This event aims to stimulate discussion on strategies for employment creation in rural areas in order to reduce poverty in Lao PDR.