Skills Development in Asia and the Pacific

This project is designed to respond to the urgent need of member States to recover from the global financial and economic crisis. The project will provide opportunities for participating countries to improve knowledge about crisis response in the field of skills development and labour market efficiency. The best practices on public private partnership (PPP) and enterprises’ adjustment mechanisms as strategies for crisis response will be discussed. The Project will also set up strategies to help policy makers to identify skills policies and systems currently available as well as to assist employers and workers to cover and respond to these demands. ILO SKILLS-AP will support cross-country and inter-institutional learning and facilitate partnership between industries and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, and thereby improve the quality of skills development strategies and systems. The strategies will include experience and knowledge sharing related to ILO standards and good practices, and other activities responding to national agenda on decent work mentioned in the DWCP and the regional priorities. Using the ILO strategic objective on employment, outcome and the promotion of decent work as the basis, the project aims to effectively link activities including regional technical meeting and national workshops on skills development to the Global Jobs Pact, the regional outcomes and DWCP outcomes in Asia and the Pacific. Moreover, the project also provides opportunity for constituents to increase their capacity in developing and implementing their training policies and establishing partnership programme between private and public sectors.

Project symbol

RAS/10/12/JPN

Admin unit

RO-Asia and the Pacific

Start date

01/04/2010

End date

31/03/2011

Total allocation

94097

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

94097

Development Partners

Japan, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Country/Countries

Asia and the Pacific - regional

Outcomes

Mainstreaming Decent Work