Green growth in practice: Lessons from country experiences
Green growth in practice: Lessons from country experiences
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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.
Anticipating and matching skills needs
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.
Career guidance and employment services
Career guidance and counselling, career education and lifelong development of skills for employability are key for success in learning activities, effective career transitions, livelihood planning, entrepreneurship and in increasing labour market participation. They are instrumental in promoting skills utilization, recognition (RPL), as well as in improving enterprise human resource management.
Career development activities encompass a wide variety of support activities including career information and advice, counselling, work exposure (e.g. job shadowing, work experience periods), assessment, coaching, mentoring, professional networking, advocacy, basic and employability skills training (curricular and non-curricular) and entrepreneurship training. It is often an area which is fragmented across different ministries (e.g. education, TVET, employment, youth) requiring an effort to achieve the necessary coordination to provide adequate support to individuals during learning, employment and unemployment/inactivity periods.
Skills policies and strategies
Skills and employment policies should be viewed together. The full value of one policy set is realized when it supports the objectives of the other. For investments in education and training to yield maximum benefit to workers, enterprises, and economies, countries’ capacities for coordination is critical in three areas: connecting basic education to technical training and then to market entry; ensuring continuous communication between employers and training providers so that training meets the needs and aspirations of workers and enterprises, and integrating skills development policies with industrial, investment, trade, technology, environmental, rural and local development policies.
Training quality and relevance
Case studies and good practices
Case studies that document good practices and illustrate the benefits and lessons learnt of particular approaches or methods in real practice.
Featuring more than sixty (60) case studies from developed and developing countries, this report is the first comprehensive international assessment of lessons and experiences of pursuing green growth across all levels of government and all regions. It focuses on nine non-linear and interlinked elements that are commonly used by governments in green growth analysis, planning, implementation, and monitoring. These elements (including planning and coordination processes, and monitoring and evaluation) are as follows: establishing a vision, targets, and baselines; assessing and communicating benefits; prioritizing options and pathways; policy design and implementation; mobilizing investment; public-private collaboration; and integrating subnational action.
Emerging from the review of green growth country experiences are the conclusions that: Green growth could unlock substantial economic, social and environmental benefits; Integrated and robust planning, analysis, implementation, and monitoring are essential; Broad support for transformative change is required; and that further efforts are needed to assess and validate the long-term and transformational benefits of green growth.
This report received funding from the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), European Climate Foundation (ECF), Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), UK Department for International Development, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (through the CDKN).
