In order to promote quality apprenticeships, it is necessary to create an enabling environment by taking the following steps:

• developing and implementing strategies, setting national goals and allocating adequate resources
• mainstreaming quality apprenticeships in national development strategies and in employment, education and lifelong learning policies
• developing a robust regulatory framework
• encouraging social partners – employers’ and workers’ organizations – to support quality apprenticeships by formally involving them in the entities responsible for the design and implementation of quality apprenticeships
• developing the capacity and providing support services to the social partners so that they are better placed to participate effectively in the regulatory and consultative bodies or within a broader social dialogue mechanism
• providing incentives,¹ both financial and non-financial, to enterprises, especially SMEs
• encouraging intermediaries, including through financial support, to participate in the provision, coordination and support of quality apprenticeship programmes
• undertaking awareness-raising activities and promotional campaigns at regular intervals to improve the image and attractiveness of quality apprenticeships
• establishing pre-apprenticeship programmes to enable young people to acquire the competencies required to become eligible for a quality apprenticeship programme
• facilitating access to further technical and higher education opportunities for apprentices
• using new technologies and innovative methods to improve effectiveness and efficiency in delivering and managing quality apprenticeships
• giving stakeholders at the sectoral level the flexibility to recommend training duration, wages, the proportion of on-the-job training based on the complexity and investment in training required for occupations belonging to the sector.