Skills and Employability Department (EMP/SKILLS)

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Promoting greater investment in training and skills development to provide men and women improved and equal access to decent work

Skills and knowledge are the engines of economic growth and social development. The ILO's Skills and Employability Department (EMP/SKILLS) assists individuals to become employable through training, skills development and education. This assistance is crucial to improve and sustain their productivity and income-earning opportunities at work. It serves to enhance their mobility in the labour market and offer the potential for increased career choices. By investing in their human resources, enterprises are able to improve productivity and compete more successfully in increasingly integrated world economies. EMP/SKILLS seeks to promote greater investment in skills and training so that men and women have enhanced and equal access to productive and decent work. Through the vehicles of advocacy, knowledge development and services to ILO constituents, EMP/SKILLS promotes the improvement of training policies and programmes world-wide, with special emphasis on training strategies that support the integration of groups that may be disadvantaged in the labour market.

ILC report
Report for discussion at the 97th Session of the International Labour Conference, 2008: Skills for improved productivity, employment growth and development. (Download PDF (981kb))
Recommendation No. 195
Recommendation No. 195 on Human Resources Development: Education, training and lifelong learning was adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 92nd Session, June 2004. Download PDF: English ¦ French ¦ Spanish HRD Recommendation Database - A dynamic guide to implementing its recommendations
Cross-Cutting Work of EMP/SKILLS

•	The Global Employment Agenda
•	Disability and Work
•	Gender Mainstreaming

The Department

»	EMP/SKILLS and its role in the ILO Decent Work Agenda
»	EMP/SKILLS Policy Challenges
»	Staff

Key Groups and Work Themes

»	Training Policies and Programmes Group
»	Equity Issues Group
»	Technical Cooperation and Employment Services

Information Resources

»	Activities, Meetings and Events
»	Publications and Working Papers
»	Technical Cooperation Projects
»	ILO Photo Library
»	Relevant Websites

What's new at EMP/SKILLS

• International Workshop on Development of Private Employment Agencies, China, 26-27 June 2008 (Download PDF)

• Challenging the myths about learning and training in small and medium-sized enterprises: Implications for public policy (Download PDF)

• Skills and productivity in the informal economy (Download PDF)

• Workshop report on Apprenticeship in the Informal Economy in Africa (Download PDF English and French)

• Improving skills and productivity of disadvantaged youth (Download PDF)

• Skills, Productivity and Employment Growth: the case of Latin America (Download PDF English and Spanish)

• Recognizing ability. The skills and productivity of persons with disabilities. Literature review (Download PDF)

• Skills development for industrial clusters: Preliminary review (Download PDF)

• Guide to Private Employment Agencies: Regulation, Monitoring and Enforcement (Download PDF)

• An Introductory Guide to National Qualifications Frameworks ((Download PDF)

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Last update: 13 August 2008