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Skills for growth & development: A technical and vocational education and training (TVET) policy for Pakistan

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															Skills for growth & development: A technical and vocational education and training (TVET) policy for Pakistan
													

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Governments hold a wealth of knowledge on skills development, and are increasingly realizing the value of learning from each others’ experiences. Their policy documents, programme evaluations, and research findings contain their experience and ideas on how to better link skills to employment

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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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National policies and initiatives

National legislation, policies and initiatives on the issue of training and skills development and the world of work.

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24 Feb 2016

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This document consists of a policy statement, implementation plan and supporting annexes, which consider and discuss aspects of the TVET Policy in Pakistan which aims to:

- Secure a national commitment to the importance of skills development to achieve sustained economic growth, to increase productivity and to provide opportunities for people to contribute to the economy and to their communities, particularly the country’s growing youthful population;
- Increase the number and quality of training opportunities so that in the short-term at least one million will be trained each year. By 2025, the objective is to train 20 percent of all school-leavers, in addition to up-skilling and re-skilling existing workers. Such expansion will not be achieved by the public sector alone and the active engagement of the private sector will be required;
- Introduce a national standards-based qualification, assessment and certification system;
- Design and deliver competence-based education and training programmes that concentrate on the skills required to perform jobs;
- Forge new partnerships between the public and private sectors and to encourage employers to train more directly and to contribute to the reform of public TVET provision;
- Maintain and expand the export of labour by encouraging people to obtain internationally recognised qualifications;
- Encourage linkages with the informal sector of the economy by providing people with opportunities to gain formal qualifications;
- Continue the reform and revitalisation of the public TVET sector.

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Policy convergence

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Skills and training policy

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TVET systems

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Vocational training

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Asia and the Pacific

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Pakistan

UNESCO TVET Strategy 2016-2021

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UNESCO TVET Strategy 2016-2021

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English

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International organizations

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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Skills policies and strategies

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Training quality and relevance

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International standards

International conventions and recommendations and other international instruments on human resource and skills development. Strategy papers on the practical application of international standards from international organizations covering issues related to training, effective utilization and development of skills, and on linking skills to employment.

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22 Feb 2016

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Report of the UNESCO-UNEVOC virtual conference – 28 September to 03 October 2015 This report explores the important principles, issues, actions and roles that should be taken into account when setting out the global agenda for TVET over the coming years and highlights the challenges and opportunities facing TVET in different countries. Despite these differences, the report stresses the need for international collaboration and dialogue in order to overcome the obstacles that may lie ahead, and specifically calls on UNESCO to act as a key facilitator for collaboration. The report ends with a six-point Agenda for TVET.

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Skills and training policy

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Global

Aprendizaje y políticas de transición de la educación al trabajo para jóvenes en América Latina y El Caribe

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															Aprendizaje y políticas de transición de la educación al trabajo para jóvenes en América Latina y El Caribe
													

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Spanish

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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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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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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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22 Feb 2016

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La presente publicación constituye una contribución de la Oficina de la OIT para el Cono Sur de América Latina a través del Programa de apoyo a las políticas de empleo y formación de jóvenes en el Uruguay y de OIT/Cinterfor, al proceso de generación de análisis y reflexión que lleva adelante la Organización Internacional del Trabajo sobre el tema del aprendizaje y las políticas y programas de transición de la educación al trabajo de los jóvenes.

Contiene una sistematización de los resultados de una serie de investigaciones nacionales sobre el aprendizaje y las políticas y programas de transición de la educación al trabajo de jóvenes llevada adelante en Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Jamaica, México, Perú y Trinidad y Tobago, la cual deja de manifiesto la enorme riqueza y variedad de enfoques y de soluciones prácticas que los países se han dado para procurar posibilitar y facilitar la inserción laboral de su población joven.

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Education and training

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School-to-work transition

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Skills and training policy

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Youth

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Plan estratégico de formación continua: Innovación y empleo. Argentina 2020

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Plan estratégico de formación continua: Innovación y empleo. Argentina 2020

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Spanish

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Governments

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Lifelong learning

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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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Training quality and relevance

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National policies and initiatives

National legislation, policies and initiatives on the issue of training and skills development and the world of work.

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22 Feb 2016

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El Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social de Argentina, a partir de su ‘Plan Estratégico de Formación Continua: Innovación y Empleo. Argentina 2020’ impulsa la formación continua de los trabajadores como instrumento para lograr el empleo decente y la competitividad de la economía argentina. Para ello asume un rol estratégico en la promoción de las condiciones de formación, evaluación y reconocimiento de las competencias laborales que son exigidas a los trabajadores en los sectores productivos del país.

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Education and training

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employability

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Argentina

Career development at work: A review of career guidance to support people in employment

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															Career development at work: A review of career guidance to support people in employment
													

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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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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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18 Feb 2016

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This report presents the findings from a research study that set out to review the range of career guidance provision that supports workforce development across the EU-25 Member States and to identify innovative or ‘best practice’ provisions. The report includes 35 case studies and these provide accounts of practice by employers, trade unions and the public sector as well as other intermediary organisations, such as outplacement consultancies, professional associations and industry sector bodies.

This research builds on the series of studies carried out by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the World Bank and the European Training Foundation which identified employed people as one of the groups in the population least likely to have access to guidance provision.

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Skills re-training

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Europe and Central Asia

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Work-based learning and lifelong guidance policies

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Work-based learning and lifelong guidance policies

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English

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english

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Other sources

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Skills policies and strategies

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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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18 Feb 2016

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European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) Concept Note No. 5 This Concept Note is designed to provide policy-makers and stakeholders across Europe with an understanding of the key concepts underpinning the relationship between work-based learning and lifelong guidance. The note suggests that lifelong guidance policies reinforce policy goals for work-based learning. Quality lifelong guidance practices support positive work-based learning experiences and contribute to the fulfillment of the different skills agendas of the European Union.

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Skills and training policy

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Europe and Central Asia

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Work-based learning

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Work-based learning

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English

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Training quality and relevance

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18 Feb 2016

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A handbook for policy makers and social partners in ETF partner countries All of us learn when we work. We watch our fellow workers and imitate them. We make mistakes and do better the next time. More experienced workers show us how to do things. Much of this learning is not systematic, and it is not formally organised. It often occurs randomly or by chance, and so some workers benefit while others do not. Sometimes it is useful, and sometimes it is not.

This handbook has been written to help policy makers and social partners organisations that represent employers and employees – to understand some of the ways in which learning in the workplace can be encouraged and how its quality can be improved. It is also intended to help them to understand some of the ways that such learning can be organised in a structured way so that it benefits learners, enterprises and employees, and so that it provides wider benefits for the labour market and the economy as a whole.

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Apprenticeships

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Skills and training policy

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Vocational training

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Europe and Central Asia

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The learning workplace – The swedish way

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The learning workplace – The swedish way

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Workers' organizations

Learning new skills and upgrading existing ones help workers maintain their employability and improve their standard of living. Trade unions play a key role in increasing workplace-based training opportunities. The Global KSP shares, among other resource items, case studies, good practices and research provided by trade unions that highlight their involvement in promoting training at individual workplaces, social dialogue and collective bargaining on skills issues, and participating in developing skills policies and strengthening training institutions.

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Participation of employers' and workers' organizations

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The world of learning and the world of work are separate but linked. While one involves learning, the other produces goods and services. Neither can thrive without the other. Strong partnerships between government, employers and workers help ensure the relevance of training to the changing needs of enterprises and labour markets.

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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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18 Feb 2016

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This publication aims to provide a picture of some interesting projects within workplace learning and a more general picture of the challenges and conditions for competence development in the workplace in Sweden.

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Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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666

Skills upgrading

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skills-upgrading

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Europe and Central Asia

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Sweden

Employment and social developments in Europe 2015

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Employment and social developments in Europe 2015

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English

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Other sources

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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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Research papers

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18 Feb 2016

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The Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) Review analytically underpins the policy actions of the European Union and its Member States in pursuit of the Europe 2020 employment and social goals. The ESDE is divided into three thematic parts focusing respectively on ‘Promoting Job Creation’, ‘Improving Labour Markets’ Efficiency’, and ‘Investing in People’. Part three of the review maintains that a skilled workforce is crucial to a resilient and competitive economy and to the smooth functioning of the labour market, especially in the context of population ageing, technological change and globalization.

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Qualification frameworks

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qualification-frameworks

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651

Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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Social protection

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social-protection

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Europe and Central Asia

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Directrices de política para una transición justa hacia economías y sociedades ambientalmente sostenibles para todos

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															Directrices de política para una transición justa hacia economías y sociedades ambientalmente sostenibles para todos
													

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Spanish

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ILO

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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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International standards

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international-standards

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skpRPS

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research-papers

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18 Feb 2016

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COP21 - París 2015

La ecologización de la economía ofrece numerosas oportunidades para alcanzar objetivos sociales: puede actuar como un nuevo motor de crecimiento, tanto en los países adelantados como en los países en desarrollo, y como un generador neto de empleos decentes y verdes que pueden contribuir en gran medida a la erradicación de la pobreza y a la inclusión social. La ecologización de la economía mejorará nuestra capacidad para gestionar los recursos naturales de forma sostenible, aumentar la eficiencia energética y reducir los desechos, y al mismo tiempo permitirá enfrentar las desigualdades y potenciar la resiliencia. La ecologización de los empleos y la promoción de los empleos verdes, tanto en los sectores tradicionales como en los emergentes, fomentarán una economía competitiva, con bajas emisiones de carbono y ambientalmente sostenible, así como modalidades sostenibles de consumo y producción, y contribuirán a la lucha contra el cambio climático.

Bajo este contexto estas directrices sostienen que políticas sostenibles coherentes deben constituir un marco de transición justa para todos con el fin de promover la creación de más empleos decentes e incluso, si procede, prever la repercusión en el empleo y favorecer una protección social adecuada y sostenible frente a la pérdida de empleos y los desplazamientos, así como el desarrollo de competencias y el diálogo social, incluido el ejercicio efectivo del derecho de sindicación y de negociación colectiva.

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