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Skills demand and supply assessment in the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar region, Bangladesh

Two-faceted assessment was conducted that included industry skills demand anticipation and skills supply in the Chattogram–Cox’s Bazar region, focusing on five priority economic sectors. The study provides strategic recommendations for fostering economic growth, ensuring employability, and addressing the unique demands of the Chattogram–Cox's Bazar region.

Skills development

Skills Matter!

The continuum of interventions allowed for meaningful changes in people’s lives, in institutions’ capacity, in companies’ productivity and in the way the TVET system operates. The ILO interventions, with the support of the European Union and the Government of Canada, aim to strengthen the skills system governance, the development of skills policies and qualifications frameworks; the delivery of quality skills training and certification, and the inclusiveness of TVET. They include the European Union funded TVET-Reform project (2007-15) and Skills 21 project (2017-24), and the Government of Canada funded B-SEP project (2013-19), ProGRESS project (2022-27); and ISEC project (2022-25); ISEC is partially funded by the Kingdom of Netherlands.This brochure captures the main changes these projects brought forward for people, institutions, and companies.

Key achievements and highlights of the Young Futuremakers Thailand - Promoting Youth Employability project.

With the support of the Standard Chartered Foundation, the ILO delivered the “Young Futuremakers Thailand - Promoting Youth Employability” project from February 2021 - April 2022. The project supported disadvantaged youth, through the provision of technical skills and employability training, and employment services. The project's geographical focus was Bangkok and the provinces of Rayong, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya and Nakhon Ratchasima.

Key achievements and highlights of the Young Futuremakers Thailand - Promoting Youth Employability project.

This study analyses the design, operation and achievements of the health insurance schemes of the Cambodian National Social Security Fund (NSSF), and proposes options and ideas for improvement of the healthcare system

EMPLOYMENT Department Newsletter, March/April 2024

Policy brief

Strengthening apprenticeships for transitions to formality

Quality apprenticeships play a pivotal role in facilitating the transition from the informal to the formal economy. Key strategies for enhancing apprenticeships in the informal economy towards quality apprenticeships involve capitalizing on existing systems, promoting social dialogue, strengthening apprenticeship contracts, building the capacity of MSMEs and their associations, ensuring off-the-job learning opportunities, recognizing prior learning, and promoting equality, diversity, and social inclusion.

Factsheet

ILO in Syria Early recovery through community resilience in earthquake-hit areas (February – December 2023)

In response to multiple earthquakes that devastated Northern governorates of Syria, the International Labour Organization (ILO) mobilized internal crisis response funds to embark on employment-intensive infrastructure and livelihoods recovery initiatives in Aleppo, one of the worst-hit areas.

Vulnerable youth, digital skills and vocational training in Latin America

ILO Working paper 105

What Is Driving Wealth Inequality in the United States of America? – The Role of Productivity, Taxation and Skills

This paper assesses the drivers of wealth inequality. While inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is due to differences in educational attainment, within-group inequality is due to differences in productivity across firms. Workers in more successful firms are paid more than their peers with the same level of education and skills in less successful firms.

ILO Working paper 105

What Is Driving Wealth Inequality in the United States of America? - The Role of Productivity, Taxation and Skills (mobi)

This paper assesses the drivers of wealth inequality. While inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is due to differences in educational attainment, within-group inequality is due to differences in productivity across firms. Workers in more successful firms are paid more than their peers with the same level of education and skills in less successful firms.

ILO Working paper 105

What Is Driving Wealth Inequality in the United States of America? - The Role of Productivity, Taxation and Skills (epub)

This paper assesses the drivers of wealth inequality. While inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is due to differences in educational attainment, within-group inequality is due to differences in productivity across firms. Workers in more successful firms are paid more than their peers with the same level of education and skills in less successful firms.

Policy brief

How Skills and Employability initiatives contribute to peace in the framework of the Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus

Skills development initiatives can help prevent conflict and strengthen peace in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. If designed or adapted appropriately, they can strengthen inclusive social dialogue and trust between groups and increase people’s sense of inclusion and their resilience to disruption and violence, through increased employability. Peace can be achieved by adopting peace and conflict analysis, conflict- and gender-sensitivity measures, a social dialogue- based approach, and a strong focus on fairness and inclusion.

EMPLOYMENT Department Newsletter, January/February 2024

Manual - Mainstreaming gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI) and the prevention and response to sexual violence in vocational education and training institutions

The ILO Skills for Prosperity Programme worked on establishing new regulations in Indonesian TVET institutions to address sexual harassment and violence in higher education for the very first time. The work was completed with four state polytechnics, establishing a senior taskforce responsible, working with social partners to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) that integrated investigations, prosecutions and victim support with local services; and publishing and socialising the guidelines within the institution.

Guide - Mainstreaming gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI) and the prevention and response to sexual violence in vocational education and training institutions

The ILO Skills for Prosperity Programme worked on establishing new regulations in Indonesian TVET institutions to address sexual harassment and violence in higher education for the very first time. The work was completed with four state polytechnics, establishing a senior taskforce responsible, working with social partners to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) that integrated investigations, prosecutions and victim support with local services; and publishing and socialising the guidelines within the institution.

Skills for Social Justice – Advancing social justice through stronger skills systems

The strategic integration of skills in policies for greener jobs, structural transformations, social protection, digital transitions, and transitions to formality is necessary for creating an equitable and sustainable future for all.

Research Paper

Platform work in developing economies: Can digitilisation drive structural transformation?

This paper discusses the expansion or penetration of digital economic activity in the context of developing economies, and what this may mean for economic or structural transformations for countries in the global South.

ILO Brief

How TVET and skills systems can combat violence and harassment

Guidelines for a safe and inclusive training environment

Circular economy in the food and beverage industry for a green recovery - PAGE Indonesia: In-depth assessment of green jobs and skill needs

The present report introduces an in-depth assessment of green jobs and skill needs for circular economy in the palm cooking oil industry. Its relevance is high as circular economy has been established as one of the priorities in Indonesia’s green economy strategy, itself instrumental to attain Indonesia Vision 2045.

Project update

Advancing young people’s engagement and meaningful participation

This brochure provides an update on the project results till November 2023.