E-learning course on financing skills development
English
ILO
The International Labour Organization is the tripartite U.N. agency that promotes Decent Work through employment, social security, labour standards and social dialogue. Its work on skills development is guided by the conceptual framework on Skills to improve productivity, employment growth, and development agreed in 2008 by representatives of Governments, Employers’ Associations and Workers’ Associations. Research, policy advice, and pilot projects and technical cooperation programmes to apply good practices in different circumstances across its 185 member States aims to boost the employability of workers, the productivity and competitiveness of enterprises, and the inclusiveness of economic growth. The ILO Secretariat in offices in 40 countries works with Ministries of Labour, employers’ organizations, and trade unions to integrate skills development into national and sector development strategies in order to better meet current labour market needs and to prepare for the jobs of the future; to expand access to employment-related training so that youth, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are better able to acquire skills and secure productive and decent work; and to improve the ability of public employment services to provide career guidance, maintain labour exchange services, and deliver active labour market programmes.For more information regarding the ILO’s work on skills and employability go to: http://www.ilo.org/skills/lang--en/index.htm; for ILO/Cinterfor's Knowledge Management Plarform, see: http://www.oitcinterfor.org
Other sources
Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
Financing of training
Initial education and training and lifelong learning benefit individuals, employers and society as a whole. Economic principles dictate that the costs for services with public and private benefits should be shared between public and private funding, or else too little training will be provided or taken up. Effective mechanisms for financing skills development vary according to countries’ economic and political circumstances and the degree and level of social dialogue established.
This e-Learning course, organized in collaboration with the European Training Foundation, examines underlying principles, general guidelines and different approaches that can assist national policy-makers, experts and stakeholders, as well as international cooperation agencies in analysing, exploring and identifying financing mechanisms for building sustainable skills-development systems. The course aims to foster mutual learning and increasing institutional knowledge by reviewing existing systems, mechanisms, incentives and practices for the financing of skills development and TVET.
The course targets a mixed audience of professionals involved in skills development and vocational training policy, employment creation, and social inclusion at the national and regional levels. It will be of particular interest to senior policy-makers, technical staff and advisors to ministries of labour and education, as well as other ministries and authorities involved in skills development and TVET policies and systems; management and technical staff of national training authorities and national or sector-based training funds, including representatives of regional networks of national training funds; representatives of workers' and employers' organizations working in the area of skills development and TVET; programme staff of national, bilateral or multilateral development agencies working on skills development; directors of TVET institutions.
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