Skills for Migration (S4M) Project

The South Asia subregion is home to some of the world's fastest-growing economies, but many of the countries continue to struggle to fight poverty. The challenge of skills development in the subregion is broad and multidimensional, covering both quantitative and qualitative aspects. It is often complicated by the large size of the population, if not, by vast geographical, cultural, gender ethnic and other social diversities and severe mismatches between demand and supply. The economic dualities – dynamic and competitive parts of the economy, on the one hand, and a weak, uncompetitive informal economy on the other hand – generate different demands in, and challenges to, the skills development system. In addition to under-preforming public TVET and skills systems leading to efforts to stimulate private training markets, other priorities in the subregion include reforms of institutional arrangements to improve inter-agency coordination; strengthening of the labour market information systems, reforms of national qualifications systems to improve learning pathways; shift towards competency-based training to improve the quality and relevance of skills; revitalization of employers service to improve school to work transition of young people and strengthening of training and skills certification of departing and returning migrant workers.

Project symbol

RAS/16/55/JPN

Admin unit

DWT/CO-New Delhi

Start date

01/11/2016

End date

31/12/2017

Total allocation

124675

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

124675

Development Partners

Japan, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Country/Countries

Asia and the Pacific - regional

Outcomes

Promoting fair and effective labour migration policies