Publications
2024
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EMPLOYMENT Department Newsletter, March/April 2024
25 March 2024
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Strengthening apprenticeships for transitions to formality
27 February 2024
Quality apprenticeships play a pivotal role in facilitating the transition from the informal to the formal economy. Key strategies for enhancing apprenticeships in the informal economy towards quality apprenticeships involve capitalizing on existing systems, promoting social dialogue, strengthening apprenticeship contracts, building the capacity of MSMEs and their associations, ensuring off-the-job learning opportunities, recognizing prior learning, and promoting equality, diversity, and social inclusion.
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Vulnerable youth, digital skills and vocational training in Latin America
20 February 2024
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How Skills and Employability initiatives contribute to peace in the framework of the Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus
31 January 2024
Skills development initiatives can help prevent conflict and strengthen peace in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. If designed or adapted appropriately, they can strengthen inclusive social dialogue and trust between groups and increase people’s sense of inclusion and their resilience to disruption and violence, through increased employability. Peace can be achieved by adopting peace and conflict analysis, conflict- and gender-sensitivity measures, a social dialogue- based approach, and a strong focus on fairness and inclusion.
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EMPLOYMENT Department Newsletter, January/February 2024
25 January 2024
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Guide - Mainstreaming gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI) and the prevention and response to sexual violence in vocational education and training institutions
23 January 2024
The ILO Skills for Prosperity Programme worked on establishing new regulations in Indonesian TVET institutions to address sexual harassment and violence in higher education for the very first time. The work was completed with four state polytechnics, establishing a senior taskforce responsible, working with social partners to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) that integrated investigations, prosecutions and victim support with local services; and publishing and socialising the guidelines within the institution.
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Manual - Mainstreaming gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI) and the prevention and response to sexual violence in vocational education and training institutions
23 January 2024
The ILO Skills for Prosperity Programme worked on establishing new regulations in Indonesian TVET institutions to address sexual harassment and violence in higher education for the very first time. The work was completed with four state polytechnics, establishing a senior taskforce responsible, working with social partners to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) that integrated investigations, prosecutions and victim support with local services; and publishing and socialising the guidelines within the institution.
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Guide for national discussion on training and certification services for caregivers in Latin America
01 January 2024
This guide is addressed to all institutions, organisations and individuals involved in the design and implementation of public policies aimed at improving care services. It comprises those working at the macro level to promote transformative care policy packages with a human-centered approach as an essential element for the quality of services. It also caters to those institutions, organisations and individuals that are directly linked to the provision of training, capacity building, assessment and certification of labour competences, who are at heart of improving the planning and impact of care services, and offers them a broad vision of the topic and concrete examples of best practices.
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Experiences on training and certification for care work in Latin America
01 January 2024
This document compiles experiences of training and certification services for care workers that are currently underway, mainly in public institutions in Latin America. The aim of this compilation is to provide an overview of the context in which training and certification policies are embedded, as well as to present details of the characteristics of the services, the main achievements, challenges and lessons learned. Although it is a sample of the existing offer, the aim is to generate quality information that contributes to decision-making for the improvement of co-responsibility for care, especially in education and technical-professional training policies, while considering the need to operate under a systemic vision.
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Skills for Social Justice – Advancing social justice through stronger skills systems
01 January 2024
The strategic integration of skills in policies for greener jobs, structural transformations, social protection, digital transitions, and transitions to formality is necessary for creating an equitable and sustainable future for all.
2023
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Employment Policy Department Newsletter, Nov/Dec 2023
24 November 2023
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Aligning Skills Development and National Social Protection Systems.
03 November 2023
Coordination between social protection, employment and skills policies is a hallmark of systems that successfully empower individuals to deal with important work and life transitions.
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Employment Policy Department Newsletter, Sept/Oct 2023
24 September 2023
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Disability inclusion in small and medium-sized enterprises
30 August 2023
While small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) generate the majority of employment opportunities worldwide, their visibility in promoting the employment and inclusion of persons with disabilities has been low, compared to the efforts of multinational enterprises - including those global companies that are members of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network (GBDN).
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Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) System in South Africa - Dr Thabo Moshongoane (CEO - Mining Qualifications Authority)
29 August 2023
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Sector Skills Councils in the UK - By Simon Perryman
29 August 2023
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Financing mechanisms for promoting social inclusion in skills and lifelong learning systems: Global overview of current practices and policy options
16 August 2023
The report analyses pros and cons of practices around the world, shedding light on the policy options to improve access to and participation in skills development and lifelong learning of disadvantaged people.
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Employment Policy Department Newsletter, July/August 2023
01 August 2023
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Global Careers Month. Challenges, opportunities and priorities
21 July 2023
This brief synthesises the results of discussions held during the global careers month in Regional events. It provides a fresh insight on challenges, opportunities and priorities for career guidance system development at global and regional level.
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Building Better Formal TVET Systems - Principles and Practice in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
12 July 2023
A joint study by the World Bank, the ILO, and UNESCO emphasizes the need for TVET in low- and middle-income countries to adapt to globalization, technological progress, demographic changes, and climate change.