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UNESCO: Digital skills for life and work

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UNESCO: Digital skills for life and work

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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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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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Research papers

Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.

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19 Sep 2017

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wcmstest4_193296.pdf

The report highlights the emergence of a new global skills gap where gender, class, geography and age can have a huge impact on whether a person is able to harness new technologies or not. It also presents strategies for ensuring all groups of people can develop these skills. Drafted by the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development's Working Group on Education, chaired by Ms. Irena Bokova, Director General of Unesco, and John Galvin, Vice-President of Intel, the report identifies essential digital skills and competencies from basic skills to high-level professional skills.

Findings show that the development of these digital skills depends on a number of factors such as appropriate involvement of government, blending traditional ‘non-digital’ education approaches and digital applications, bridging formal and non-formal digital skills provision, and enhancing the digital competencies of teachers.

The report also focuses special attention to the often overlooked ‘complementary’ skills required to navigate technology-driven societies, such as an understanding of privacy considerations; knowledge of how to engage as responsible digital citizens; and awareness of how digital technology, big data and algorithms are shaping society.

Included in the report are policy recommendations that advice for governments to:

- Maintain public involvement in the increasingly commercially driven space of digital skills development.

- Redouble efforts to address inequalities in the provision of digital skills and competencies.

- Generate increased data on digital skills across populations to identify and fill gaps through education.

- Promote open digital resources and address needs not met by commercial providers.

- Foster partnerships with various stakeholders—including industry partners—to expand and improve the quality and relevance of digital skills development initiatives.

Also included in the report is a compendium of case studies illustrating successful examples of public and private sector working together in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America to ensure that all people have the skills and competencies they need to participate in the knowledge-based economy of the future.

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Skills and training policy

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Skills anticipation

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Technology

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technology

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Global

The skills development challenge in Latin America: diagnosing the problems and identifying public policy solutions.

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															The skills development challenge in Latin America: diagnosing the problems and identifying public policy solutions.
													

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Access to training

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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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Skills policies and strategies

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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.

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Training quality and relevance

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Policy and strategy

Recommendations and advice on resolving policy challenges related to skills development systems and their linkages to the world of work. Concise syntheses of experience from the international organizations.

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Research papers

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24 Aug 2017

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Latin America’s history has been characterized by fluctuating rates of economic growth, insufficient development of human capital, and high levels of income inequality. The end of a decade-long cycle of growth driven by high commodity prices signals that countries in Latin America must now face the challenge of improving productivity as a source of sustainable and equitable long-term growth. This requires tackling the challenge of skills development throughout the region. This paper argues that in spite of the striking increase in the years of schooling attained by adults in Latin American countries, there is consistent and compelling evidence of inadequate basic, technical, and socio-emotional skills development across the region. These gaps represent a bottleneck to productivity growth and to the ability of Latin American workers to obtain gainful employment. Our analysis also shows that relevance, quality, and efficiency limitations in secondary and tertiary education are key drivers of the skills development problem.

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School-to-work transition

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school-to-work-transition

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Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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666

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Americas

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6 ways Latin America can close its skills gap

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6 ways Latin America can close its skills gap

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English

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english

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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.

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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Promotional material

Presentations, discussion papers, meeting reports, promotional materials, videos, fact sheets, brochures and newsletters on skills development for employment.

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Publication Date:

17 Aug 2017

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This article draws attention to the skills gap in Latin America and the challenges of the region in this regard. Skills gaps are one of the leading social and economic issues of our time. In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), more than in any other emerging region, companies are not seeing their skills needs being met. According to the World Bank Enterprise Surveys, 36% of firms say they struggle to find an adequately qualified work force, a percentage higher than in any other region in the world, compared to a global average of 21% and an OECD average of 15%. Addressing the human capital and skills gaps has very high development returns because human capital and skills are a vector connecting five of the key interrelated challenges facing the region: sluggish productivity growth, low innovation rates, inequality, informality and social exclusion.

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Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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Skills anticipation

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Skills mismatch

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skills-mismatch

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Americas

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Norway-ILO Programme Cooperation Agreement 2016-17

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Norway-ILO Programme Cooperation Agreement 2016-17

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English

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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

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Training quality and relevance

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Youth employability

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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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Presentations, discussion papers, meeting reports, promotional materials, videos, fact sheets, brochures and newsletters on skills development for employment.

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Publication Date:

15 Aug 2017

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wcmstest4_192301.pdf

Progress Report 2016 This report provides an overview of the ILO programmes supported by the Norway-ILO Programme Cooperation Agreement 2016-17, as well as an update on progress made in 2016 towards the achievement of ILO’s biennial goals. In 2016–17, Norway provided a contribution of NOK 80 million through a combination of different funding modalities, including unearmarked core contributions and lightly earmarked thematic funding with a focus on skills development, including the provision of vocational and professional training and education. Specific sections highlighting results achieved in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania are also included.

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Disadvantaged youth

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Employability

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employability

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Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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666

TVET systems

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tvet-systems

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661

Vocational training

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vocational-training

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124

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Africa

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Malawi

Mozambique

United Republic of Tanzania

The future of work, employment and skills in Latin America and the Caribbean

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The future of work, employment and skills in Latin America and the Caribbean

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English

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ILO

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ilo

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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15 Aug 2017

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This paper analyses the ‘stylized facts’ of the current realities in the world of production and the world of work in Latin America and the Caribbean. It groups the key factors that can be considered as the main drivers of change and determinants of the future of work in the region. It suggests the need for a more integrated and renewed view of the nexus of productive development-technology-innovation-education-skills-employment and employability. And it argues the need for new, broader pacts that express this vision, along with institutional reforms that translate it into concrete, sustainable actions and State policies.

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Employability

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employability

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643

Productivity

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productivity

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188

Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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666

Skills anticipation

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skills-anticipation

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677

Technology

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technology

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345

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Americas

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Malawi: Work-integrated Learning helps to improve efficiency and market access for Eden Farm

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															Malawi: Work-integrated Learning helps to improve efficiency and market access for Eden Farm
													

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English

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ILO

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Training quality and relevance

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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.

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15 Aug 2017

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wcmstest4_192298.pdf

In Malawi, the Work-integrated Learning training programme is being implemented jointly by the Department of TVET in the Ministry of Labour, TEVETA and the Employers’ Consultative Association of Malawi, with technical support from the ILO.

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agriculture

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Productivity

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productivity

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188

Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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666

TVET systems

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tvet-systems

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661

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Africa

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Malawi

La brecha de habilidades para el trabajo en América Latina: Revisión y análisis en la región

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															La brecha de habilidades para el trabajo en América Latina: Revisión y análisis en la región
													

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Spanish

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ILO

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Career guidance and employment services

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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.

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09 Aug 2017

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Este documento de trabajo ha sido preparado por OIT/Cinterfor como un insumo para la reunión ‘International Conference on Jobs and Skills Mismatch’ organizada por el Servicio de Conocimientos Teóricos y Prácticos y Empleabilidad (SKILLS branch) en la sede de OIT en Ginebra (mayo 11 y 12 de 2017). Se ha estructurado en tres partes. En la primera se mencionan las características principales de la oferta de trabajo en la región, enfocando su evolución en términos de cualificaciones. En la segunda se analizan las manifestaciones de la brecha de habilidades desde la perspectiva de la demanda de trabajo a partir de diferentes fuentes y encuestas. Finalmente se enuncian algunas conclusiones y desafíos de política que la región debería encarar.

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Employability

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employability

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643

Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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666

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Americas

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Education in Costa Rica, Reviews of National Policies for Education

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Education in Costa Rica, Reviews of National Policies for Education

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English

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skpEng

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Training quality and relevance

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skpTrainQR

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training-quality-and-relevance

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07 Aug 2017

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As Costa Rica’s economy has developed in recent decades, the education system that helped propel the country to upper middle-income status now needs reform to respond to rising expectations and changing demands for skills. New challenges are emerging: economic growth has recently slowed, inequality is widening and productivity growth is weak. How can Costa Rica improve both the quality and equity of its education system while also addressing efficiency challenges? This report assesses Costa Rica’s policies and practices against best practice in education from across the OECD and other reference countries in the Latin American region. It analyses its education system’s major strengths and the challenges it faces, from early childhood education and care to tertiary education. It offers recommendations on how Costa Rica can improve quality and equity to ensure strong, sustainable and inclusive growth. This report will be of interest in Costa Rica as well as other countries looking to raise the quality, equity and efficiency of their education systems.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264277335-en

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Access to training

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access-to-training

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683

Inclusion

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inclusion

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665

Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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666

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Americas

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Costa Rica

African Economic Outlook 2017

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African Economic Outlook 2017

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English

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english

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international-organizations

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other-sources

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Career guidance and employment services

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skpLMIES

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career-guidance-and-employment-services

Training quality and relevance

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skpTrainQR

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training-quality-and-relevance

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07 Aug 2017

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The annual African Economic Outlook (AEO) monitors the continent’s state of affairs using a collaborative approach. The AEO assesses the recent economic and social situation in Africa, projects likely developments for the near future and explores a special theme on the structure of African economies. The AEO 2017, the 16th edition, examines entrepreneurship and industrialisation in Africa. The African Economic Outlook 2017 presents the continent’s current state of affairs and forecasts its situation for the coming two years. This annual report examines Africa’s performance in crucial areas: macroeconomics, external financial flows and tax revenues, trade policies and regional integration, human development, and governance. For its 16th edition, the report takes a hard look at the role of entrepreneurs in Africa’s industrialisation process. It proposes practical steps that African governments can take to carry out effective industrialisation strategies. Policies aimed at improving skills, business clusters and financing could remove important constraints on African private enterprises.

This flagship publication, which annually reviews all 54 African countries, is a joint effort of the African Development Bank (AfDB), UNDP and OECD.

The report has a dedicated website: www.africaneconomicoutlook.org, which houses this as well as past editions.

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Employability

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employability

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643

Entrepreneurship

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entrepreneurship

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182

Industrial development

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industrial-development

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214

Labour market information

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labour-market-information

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684

Private sector

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private-sector

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229

Regional development

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regional-development

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151

Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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666

Skills policies and strategies

Small enterprises

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small-enterprises

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181

Trade

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trade

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250

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Africa

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Skills for a Modern Ukraine

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Skills for a Modern Ukraine

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English

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english

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skpEng

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skpIntOrg

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international-organizations

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Access to training

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skpATSU

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access-to-training

Training quality and relevance

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skpTrainQR

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training-quality-and-relevance

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Research papers

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skpRPS

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research-papers

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03 Aug 2017

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wcmstest4_191897.pdf

Ukraine’s economic progress since its independence in the early 1990s has been uneven, in part due to the slow pace of reforms, unfavorable demographic factors, and low productivity. One of the key factors limiting success is the inadequacy of the skills of Ukraine’s workforce with the needs of a modern economy. While the country demonstrates a strong record of educational attainment and acquisition of foundational skills, the post-secondary education and training system fails to equip workers with the right advanced skills for labor market success. This study provides new evidence on the nature of skills valued in the labor market, reviews the institutional constraints hindering the development and use of workforce’s skills, and proposes a set of policy options. This study argues that, to improve skills formation and use, Ukraine needs to renew its public policies on post-secondary education, labor-market intermediation and information, and labor regulations. Drawing on household and firm surveys, the study finds that workers need a mix of advanced cognitive skills (like problem solving and communication), socio-emotional skills (like self-management and teamwork), and technical skills (like computer programing or sale skills) to be successful in the labor market and meet employers’ demand. These skills are not necessarily explicitly taught in traditional learning settings. Policy makers should therefore rethink the content of post-secondary education and training to focus on the development of skills for the labor market rather than only attendance. To do so, establishing steady links between education institutions and enterprises, by setting up occupation standards and adapting curricula to firm demand, is crucial. An essential instrument to identify the demand for skills and facilitate fruitful investments in skills formation is a labor market information system—which provides reliable information on labor market prospects across post-secondary education fields and institutions and job requirements and characteristics to students, their families, and jobseekers. Nonetheless, a better formation of skills would only be beneficial if most of the workforce can put them at use in jobs, promoted by better labor regulations.

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