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Skills and Employability Network Updates
Asian Decent Work Decade Knowledge Network December 2013, Issue #14
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GLOBAL APPRENTICESHIPS NETWORK (GAN) PROMOTES FUTURE SKILLS FOR BUSINESS AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH
There are some 73 million unemployed young people in the world looking
for employment opportunities – yet many employers struggle to find skilled
workers. To address this skills mismatch, the International Organisation of
Employers (IOE) and the OECD’s Business and Industry Advisory Committee
(BIAC), with the support of the ILO, have established a Global
Apprenticeships Network (GAN). The GAN is a business coalition that seeks
to promote apprenticeships and ensure future skills for business. GAN
members are Multinationals (MNCs), Small and Medium-sized companies
(SMEs), employers’ federations, associations and groups linked to vocational training and education.
The GAN:
Offers apprenticeships, learnerships and internships;
Shares best practices with other companies, employers’ federations and labour administrations;
Improves the status of apprenticeship programmes through advocacy campaigns and promotes work-based
training; and
Provides information and capacity building on setting up national and regional networks.
The network members benefit from one-stop package of services, access to industry experience on how to build
apprenticeship programmes, potential to build business to business partnerships, links to talent, as well as
international recognition and visibility. More information on GAN: [email protected]
The background study on apprenticeship networks, including country summaries of Argentina, India, Germany, South
Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom: Feasibility study for a global business network on apprenticeship
NEW RESEARCH LOOKS AT INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT IN MYANMAR
The ILO, with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), has undertaken research to
examine the existing challenges in the labour market of Myanmar as well as to review the skills demand of different
economic sectors. The study analyses the growth patterns of different sectors and the various factors affecting
growth while also discussing various policy options and suggesting recommendations and strategic actions to be
taken.
In October 2013, the ILO and SDC organized a consultation meeting in Yangon in order to get comments on the study
and validate the findings by government institutions, employers and workers organizations, development partners
and stakeholders. The results of the study will be available by early next year.
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ASEAN EMPLOYERS MEET TO DISCUSS SKILLS MATCHING AND MOBILITY
Skills and competences have become crucial for competing in the global knowledge economy and the ASEAN region is
no exception to this. The mobility of professionals in the region is expected to greatly increase when the ASEAN
Economic Community’s Blueprint for the free flow of skilled labour come into effect. While it will bring along new
opportunities for employers, it is without its challenges such as dealing with possible brain drain and temporary
movements of low-skilled or semi-skilled workers.
To support employers’ organizations in responding to
issues related to skilled labour mobility, the ILO orga-
nized a regional workshop for employers in Bali
(Indonesia) in November. The one-day meeting was
arranged under the auspice of the ASEAN TRIANGLE
project. The focus of the meeting was on the role of
the employers in labour migration, and particularly, in
recruiting and placing migrant workers; facilitating
recognition and upgrading of skills and assessing in-
dustry demand for skilled labour.
During the meeting, the participants discussed both
the challenges facing and good practices adopted by
employers related to labour migration. They also iden-
tified specific priority issues requiring employers’
attention and developed policy positions on how to address each issue. The ILO will consolidate these positions into a
comprehensive policy paper on Skills Matching and Mobility which can inform the members before the next regional
meeting.
NEW PROJECT TO IMPROVE SKILLS ASSESSMENT AND CERTIFICATION SYSTEM IN AFGHANISTAN
Beginning in January 2014, a new ILO project will help at least
15,000 students from technical and vocational training schools in
Afghanistan to obtain an internationally recognized skills certificate.
To achieve this, the project will bring the National Occupational Skill
Standards (NOSS) and the associated VET curricula in line with
international standards so that they can be certified by an
assessment body from a country outside Afghanistan. The project
will also improve the assessment system of TVET programmes and,
as part of this, train some 250 assessors in competency-based
assessment and the recognition of prior learning (RPL).
The three-year project is part of the Afghanistan Skills Development
Program II (ASDP II) and it is funded by the World Bank to create and
reform the skills development system. It will be carried out in
collaboration with Afghanistan’s Deputy Ministry for Technical
Vocational Education and Training (DMTVET).
TRAINING ON EMPLOYMENT COUNSELLING SERVICES IN VIET NAM
A recent study by the ILO/Japan
Unemployment Insurance project found that
the capacity of the employment services
centers is key to successfully providing an
integrated employment services package.
Thus, to enhance the vocational training and
employment counselling skills of the
employment services (ECS) staff, the Bureau
of Employment, MoLISA with support of the
project, organized training on employment
counselling of 23 employment services
centers throughout the country. The training
took place in Binh Duong in November. ILO
Specialists were the resource persons for the
training.
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VIET NAM REVISES ITS VET LAW, GETS INSPIRATION FROM THE PHILIPPINES The ILO is supporting the Vietnamese government in revising its 2006 Law on Vocational Training to make it more market oriented, flexible and demand-driven. As part this assistance, a group of officials from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and the National Assembly went on a study tour to the Philippines in October to learn from their experiences in developing, drafting and implementing the VET law. The host organization in Manila was the Philippines’ Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) – a government institution providing major direction, policies and programmes on technical vocational education and training. In addition to learning about good practices and lessons from TESDA, the delegation benefitted also from the briefings with the Philippines Legislature, the Federation of Free Workers (FFW) and Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) to learn from their experiences. At the end of the study tour, the participants prepared an action plan on how to share their learning from the study tour and made a list of recommendations for modifying the draft VET Law of Viet Nam.
FEATURED RESOURCES My Guide to Employment: For young
people in the Pacific This Guide by the ILO office for Pacific Island countries aims to facilitate young people - new graduates, schoolleavers, out-of-school and unemployed youth - in their job search either in wage employment or in starting their own businesses.
Global national qualifications framework inventory
This Cedefop inventory of NQFs analyses the aims, characteristics and uses of qualifications frameworks. It is accompanied by Global national qualifications framework inventory which presents country case studies on qualifications frameworks.
Surfing the labour market: Job search
skills for young people Based on ILO experiences of implementing youth employment programmes worldwide, this tool provides guidance on how to provide job skills training to young people. More resources on AP-Skills Network
SEASONS’S GREETINGS
AP-SKILLS WISHES YOU ALL
VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2014!