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Information Note: Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE)

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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

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Eight out of 10 of the world’s working poor who live on US $1.25 per day live in rural areas, where many are caught in vulnerable employment, especially in agriculture.Flourishing rural areas are vital to regional and national development. Yet, rural economies tend to face a wide range of challenges that urban areas are more likely to overcome. These include access to transportation, sanitation and health services, and a consumer base in close proximity to support small and medium enterprise development. Women and men working in rural areas also face difficulties associated with a paucity of economic opportunities, under investment, poor infrastructure and public services, including education, and, in many cases, weak governance and underdeveloped markets.

Education, entrepreneurship, and physical and social infrastructure all play an important role in developing rural regions. Skills are central to improving employability and livelihood opportunities, reducing poverty, enhancing productivity and promoting environmentally sustainable development.

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Information Note: Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE)

This Information Note presents the Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) programme of the International Labour Organization (ILO), which aims to promote rural employment using a community-based approach to skills development. It outlines some of the challenges faced in efforts to improve rural livelihoods, presents an overview of the TREE programme, describes some national experiences in implementing TREE and summarizes the programme’s contribution to supporting the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda. It is intended to inform ILO constituents, skills development specialists and training practitioners about the programme and its potential to support national rural skills initiatives.

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ILO International Symposium: Job-rich Growth for Sustainable Development

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27 Nov 2017

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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Anticipating and building skills for the future is essential to a rapidly changing labour market. This applies to changes in the types and levels of skills needed as well as in occupational and technical areas. Effective methods to anticipate future skills needs and avoid potential mismatches include: sustained dialogue between employers and trainers, coordination across government institutions, labour market information systems, employment services and performance reviews of training institutions.

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Matching skills to labour market demand requires reliable sectoral and occupational information and institutions that connect employers with training providers. Sector based strategies and institutions have proved effective in engaging all stakeholders in promoting both pre-employment training and life-long learning.

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From 27-28 November 2017 at the ILO/Geneva. The symposium is part of the work of the ILO Employment Department under its Global Product on Jobs and Skills Mismatch. It follows an earlier conference, held in May, which looked at the labour market impact and policy implications of various forms of skill mismatch.

The ILO Employment Policy Department will bring together researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders to review and discuss on-going research on demand for jobs and bottlenecks in developed and developing countries. The themes discussed will cover the impact of automation and digital technologies, issues related to pro-employment macro-economic and sectoral policies, trends in employment and labour market programmes, the future of work for youth and women, transition to formality, and the design and implementation of comprehensive employment policy frameworks. The main objective is to share knowledge and policy lessons learnt on fostering full employment and inclusive and sustainable economic growth. The symposium is part of the work of the Department under its Global Product on Jobs and Skills Mismatch. It follows an earlier conference, held in May 2017, which looked at the labour market impact and policy implications of various forms of skill mismatch.

Conference objectives

The conference will bring researchers, academics, development partners, ILO staff and others to:

- share lessons learned in fostering job-rich growth, emanating from policy interventions and research, that are particularly relevant for the Department’s work going forward;
- contribute knowledge to the ILO’s Future of Work initiative with respect to the future of employment and skills;
- present and discuss results of new research and selected tools and evidence from experience at the country level;
- strengthen the knowledge sharing network among academia, other UN agencies and development partners on the goal of full, productive and freely chosen employment.

Members of permanent missions, employers and workers, international organizations and academia are welcome to attend.

Agenda for this event can be found on the right hand margin of this page.

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Skills anticipation: Looking to the future

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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.

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Briefing note. This Note highlights the issue of skills anticipation as a policy tool for decision making.

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ILO Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Workshop - Photo slideshow

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There is a critical need for a greater overall investment in education and training, particularly in developing countries. Education and training investments should be closely linked to economic and employment growth strategies and programmes. Responsibility should be shared between the government (primary responsibility), enterprises, the social partners, and the individual. To make lifelong learning for all a reality, countries will need to make major reforms of their vocational and education and training systems. School-to-work schemes for young people should integrate education with workplace learning. Training systems need to become more flexible and responsive to rapidly changing skill requirements. Reforms should also focus on how learning can be facilitated, not just on training for specific occupational categories.

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From 25 to 29 September 2017, RPL experts from more than 20 countries met in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss common challenges and share solutions about recognition systems.

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Learning and Knowledge Development (LDK) Facility

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Information is gathered from other international organizations that promote skills development and the transition from education and training to work. The Interagency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (IAG-TVET) was established in 2009 to share research findings, coordinate joint research endeavours, and improve collaboration among organizations working at the international and national levels.

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Globally, nearly 68 million young women and men are looking for and available for work, and an estimated 123 million young people are working but living in poverty. The number who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) stands at 267 million, a majority of whom are young women. Significantly, young people are three times as likely as adults (25 years and older) to be unemployed.

Skills development is a primary means of enabling young people to make a smooth transition to work. A comprehensive approach is required to integrate young women and men in the labour market, including relevant and quality skills training, labour market information, career guidance and employment services, recognition of prior learning, incorporating entrepreneurship with training and effective skills forecasting. Improved basic education and core work skills are particularly important to enable youth to engage in lifelong learning as well as transition to the labour market.

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Case studies that document good practices and illustrate the benefits and lessons learnt of particular approaches or methods in real practice.

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Learning and Knowledge Development (LKD) Facility Mission:

To equip youth in developing and transition countries with industrial skills and know-how. To make this happen the LKD Facility:

-Establishes, in partnership with global manufacturing companies, training academies for the operation and maintenance of heavy equipment in different sectors.
-Expands access of youth to job-oriented and market demand-driven skills in the sectors of logistics and industrial maintenance of machinery.

About the LKD Facility:

The Learning and Knowledge Development (LKD) Facility is a platform that promotes industrial skills development among young people in emerging economies. Working with the private sector through Public Private Development Partnerships, the LKD Facility supports the establishment and upgrading of local industrial training academies to help meet the labour market’s increasing demand for skilled employees, ultimately contributing to inclusive and sustainable industrial development.

The long-term success of local industrial academies that partner with the LKD Facility is ensured through constant monitoring of economic, environmental and social impact. UNIDO manages the LKD Facility, on behalf of SIDA, as the major project donor, and private sector partners.

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Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL): From key concepts to implementation

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25 Sep 2017

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18 Jun 2026

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Johannesburg, South Africa

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Access for all to good quality education, vocational training and workplace learning is a fundamental principle of social cohesion and economic growth. Some groups of people may require targeted attention if they are to benefit from education, training and employment opportunities.

This is particularly the case for disadvantaged youth, lower skilled workers, people with disabilities, and people in rural communities. The attractiveness of vocational education and training is enhanced when combined with entrepreneurship training and when public policies encourage utilization of higher skills by business.

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People are always learning, everywhere and throughout their lives. However, learning that takes place outside the formal education and training system is often not well understood nor valued. On-the-job training; informal apprenticeships; participating in sporting activities; organizing community events; raising children; managing a household; caring for elderly relatives often do not come with a certificate of competencies. By recognizing all types of learning - an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience – one can benefit in the labour market, formal education and training, financially and in terms of self-esteem.

Across the world, countries increasingly recognize the value of informal and non-formal learning and many are establishing systems to acknowledge competencies gained through these training modalities. The global workshop ‘Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL): From key concepts to implementation’ organized by the ILO provided a venue for countries with different degrees of RPL experience to come together and compare their experiences, guided by technical specialists in the field. From 25 to 29 September 2017, RPL experts from more than 20 countries met in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss common challenges and share solutions.

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL): From key concepts to implementation

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Are young people overskilled or underskilled? (Blog)

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This week, as we prepare ILO’s participation in the World Skills Competition 2017, taking place in Abu Dhabi, UAE from 15-18 October, we are left to reflect on a major theme which is troubling governments, employers, workers and young people across the globe – the so called skills mismatch.

This year’s World Skills Competition features 1,300 competitors, 100,000 visitors and 51 skills. The competition will cover a diverse range of vocational categories including mechatronics, information network cabling, floor tiling, patisserie, and plumbing just to name a few. The ILO, as a conference coalition partner, will be involved in two major activities of the Competition, the WorldSkills Conference and the WorldSkills Youth Forum which comes under the theme 'Skills strategies for a globalized world'.

Refocusing the debate on jobs and skills mismatch….

The ILO’s SKILLS branch will lead a conference session on the topic of skills mismatch that will consider not only what causes skills mismatch, but also to better understand the different types of skills mismatches, the labour market impact they have and their relative importance.

High and persistent levels of youth unemployment, together with job vacancies that remain unfilled, are often attributed to mismatches between jobs and skills. The debate frequently focusses on why employers are unable to fill the vacancies they have. But this is only one form of skills mismatch. The problems faced by employers are technically known as skills gaps or skills shortages (which are a form of skills mismatch), but how important are they compared with other forms of skills mismatch like over-education?

The point here is not to underestimate the importance of skills shortages, as nearly 50 per cent of all European firms report difficulties in recruiting higher education graduates (Eurobaromater survey, 2010), but the evidence that these shortages are to do with skills rather than employment opportunities and conditions is actually weak, and whether they have any effect on the performance or income of these firms is also not clearly understood.

One area that has received relatively little attention is the issue of over-education, which occurs when an individual possesses a level of education in excess of that which is required for their job. After an extensive review of existing research, Prof. Séamus McGuiness of ESRI established that a sizeable fraction of workers are in occupations that do not require as much schooling as they have acquired. Think, for example, about that taxi driver you encountered that holds a PhD, an example that points to a mismatch between jobs and skills.

Click on the PDF below to read the full blog.....

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