Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification: A methodology to align skills development with sector growth strategies (presentation)
The presentation introduces the ILO’s programme on Skills for Trade and Economic Classification, or STED. It is a capacity-building tool to help constituents identify sectors with export growth potential, assess skill gaps in those industries, and design and implement appropriate responses to fill those gaps. It does so through building up the capacity of local statistics offices and academic institutions to adapt and apply quantitative assessment tools and by determining policy recommendations through an extensive process of social dialogue. In the last three years, pilot testing of STED was completed in Ukraine, Bangladesh, Macedonia, and Kyrgyzstan.