• Skills partnerships on migration

  The ILO conducted 13 country studies and two sub-regional studies identifying the potential for skills partnerships on migration between different countries and key skills institutions.

• Winner in the 1st ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call announced during World Youth Skills Day, 15 July

  Meet the winner and the semi-finalists of the 1st ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call.

• ILO Toolkit for Quality Apprenticeships, Volume 2: Guide for practitioners (Video)

  This video introduces the ILO Toolkit for Quality Apprenticeships, Volume 2: Guide for practitioners, which offers comprehensive, practical guidance to developing and implementing apprenticeship programmes.

• Guidelines on Rapid Assessment of reskilling and upskilling needs in response to the COVID-19 crisis

  The guidelines focus on three broad types of impact on the labour market, and hence on demand for skills and opportunities for workers.

• Rapid STED: A practical guide

  This guide aims to speed the process, to deepen collaboration, and to build capacity among national and sector partners to improve skills strategies.

• ILO Monitor 5th edition: COVID-19 and the world of work. Updated estimates and analysis

  The latest monitor finds that women workers have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, creating a risk that some of the progress made on gender equality will be lost.

• ILO Podcast: Global challenges, global solutions: The skills challenge in the time of COVID-19

  This episode explores the new world of on-line learning and e-training that is taking shape, and some of the challenges that have merged.

• Preventing exclusion from the labour market: Tacking the COVID-19 employment crisis

  This policy brief highlights how youth, especially women, are being severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

• ILO: COVID-19 and the world of work

  The ILO and its constituents will play a crucial role in combating the outbreak, ensuring the safety of individuals and the sustainability of businesses and jobs.

• ITC/ILO Online courses

  Interactive and participatory online learning opportunities now available.

• ILO/G20 Training Strategy: A Skilled Workforce for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth

• OECD: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Lives: A Strategic Approach to Skills Policies

• World Bank: Stepping Up Skills for More Jobs and Higher Productivity

• UNESCO: Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work

• Youth employment

  Article: Young workers will be hit hard by COVID-19's economic fallout

• Skills for the future

• Lifelong learning

• Skills mismatch

European Vocational Skills Week 2020

9 November 2020,  to  12 November 2020 , Berlin

European Vocational Skills Week is one tool that can help address some of the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic facing...

E-learning course on management of vocational training centres

12 October 2020,  to  11 December 2020 , Online

This course is designed to facilitate the development of a holistic understanding of the management of vocational training centres...

E-learning course on sectoral approaches to skills development

20 September 2020,  to  29 October 2020 , Turin, Italy

Skills are a key component that help nations unlock economic development and prosperity. A sectoral approach to skills matching re...

E-learning course on measuring skills mismatches

17 August 2020,  to  4 September 2020 , Turin, Italy

The course will highlight the latest guidelines developed by the ILO with regard to measuring skills mismatches, while also emphas...

International Youth Day 2020

11 August 2020,  to  , Virtual event

The theme for this year's Day is “Youth Engagement for Global Action”. It seeks to highlight the ways in which the engagement of y...

ILO webinar on labour market relevance and quality assurance of apprenticeships

5 August 2020,  to  ,

This webinar will be held during the free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Quality Apprenticeships, conducted on the ITC/ILO e...

• SKILLS Panorama 

  Skills Panorama, powered by CEDEFOP, turns labour market data into accurate and timely intelligence to offer new insights into skill needs in the European Union.

• OECD Skills for Jobs Database

  Provides timely information about skills shortages, surpluses and mismatch across a wide range of countries.

   

• Decent Jobs for Youth knowledge facility

  The Decent Jobs for Youth knowledge facility is a digital platform of tools, publications, databases, thematic resources and more to support evidence-informed action on youth employment.

• Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification

  STED provides guidance for the integration of skills development in sectoral policies. The programme is designed to support growth and decent employ­ment creation in sectors that have the potential to increase exports and contribute to economic diversification.

• ILO-Norway Partnership on Skills Development

  Skills development is an essential prerequisite for youth employment and sustainable development. Moreover, skills are important to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

• OECD: Data on skills and work WISE database

  The database provides a statistical snapshot of skills development in 214 countries.

• UNESCO/UIL: Lifelong learning policies database

  The Collection lists abstracts and full-text links to laws, policies, strategies and plans on lifelong learning.

• International Training Centre

  The Centre is the training arm of the International Labour Organization (ILO). It provides training in subjects that further the ILO's pursuit of decent work for all.

• Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training

  ILO/Cinterfor is a service of the International Labour Organization (ILO), created in 1963 and established in Montevideo, Uruguay.

• Virtual Tour: Skills for Employment