World
Bank thinking
Skills
and Workforce Development
When done right, skills development can reduce undevelopment
and underemployment, increase productivity, and
improve standards of living. Investing in upskilling
or reskilling people for jobs of the future makes
economic sense.
Skills
development is at the center of changes happening
in education and labor markets amid the global mega
trends. Skills and workforce development systems
must proactively adapt to fast transformations posed
by automation, climate action, digitalization, and
the evolving labor markets.
Digital
skills development
Digital skills allowed children and adolescents,
especially those from the most excluded populations,
to perform better in their daily lives, successfully
transition to a decent job or start a business,
and participate productively in their communities.
The COVID-19 pandemic provided a strong impetus
for digital solutions, highlighting the importance
of digital skills in all areas of life, including
the workplace. Therefore, developing digital skills
and making them accessible to the most vulnerable
and excluded children and adolescents could be one
of the most decisive factors in achieving equal
opportunities.
However,
households’ access to connectivity is a major challenge
in Latin America and the Caribbean.
İstanbul
International Centre for Private Sector in Development
, India
The Sustainable Development Goals underline the
role of skills generation for work, entrepreneurship,
employment, livelihoods and development. The private
sector has a crucial role to play both in the design
and delivery of skills development. The engagement
of private sector actors can enhance market-relevant
employability skills of students and trainees, especially
disadvantaged groups like youth and women. In turn,
the business community gains access to a highly-skilled
workforce that significantly improves competitiveness
and productivity.
Role
of UN
UN country office efforts :
Influence
policies, programs and budgets to develop digital
skills in education systems.
Generate evidence to support educational, social
and technological decision-making processes involving
entrepreneurs, national and local authorities, officials,
and technical teams.
Promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences
between sectors and countries.
UN
supported efforts in Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala
and Peru to advance the Skills4Girls portfolio and
increase investment to develop digital, technological,
science and math-related skills in girls and adolescents.
Three
adolescent girls carrying out a technology project
report
STEM skills initiatives
for adolescent girls in LAC
Promoting the participation of girls in the fields
of science, technology, engineering and mathematics
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Skills4Girls:
Girl-Centered Skills Development
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United
Nations
Centre for Skill Development : Partners : Skill
Development Association - India and Siddi Degree
College
Creating opportunities and conducive environment
for skill development of youth across nation to
make them globally employable, Enabling youth to
explore Entrepreneurial opportunities and build
enterprises, Be a choiced destination for imparting
skills education, research and consulting assignments,
Offering quantifiable, Sustainable, Scalable and
Replicable employment and entrepreneurship opportunities
while striving to create a sense of ultimate delight
among all stakeholders.
United
Nations
Developing Youth Skills for the Future: A Vision
from Pakistan
United
Nations : 21st Century Skills for Sustainable Development
project
The objective of the partnership is to develop
reliable tool to assess 4C skills and the ways hot
to improve their development during the teaching\learning
activities. It is aimed at aimed at accelerating
of the achievement of the SDG 4th and SDG 17th.
World
Bank Group : Skills and Workforce Development
, India
When done right, skills development can reduce un-
and underemployment, increase productivity, and
improve standards of living. Investing in upskilling
or reskilling people for jobs of the future makes
economic sense. In the dynamic landscape of the
modern global labor market, education and workforce
development systems must become more personalized,
accessible (allowing for remote and hybrid learning),
and continuous along throughout workers’ careers–
placing “skills development” at the heart of these
global transitions. Moreover, skills systems globally
(and notably in LMICs) will need to adapt to the
fact that many workers will engage in freelancing/informal
jobs or self-employment that need to become more
profitable, productive, and conducive for economic
growth. To
succeed in the 21st century labor market, one needs
a comprehensive skill set
UNESCO's
Global Skills Academy ,
India
Training and skills development opportunities for
employability
The rapid pace of technological, economic, and societal
transformations compounds this issue. Recent reports
from the World Economic Forum indicate that 43%
of business tasks are expected to be automated by
2027. This suggests the need for widespread reskilling
(the process of acquiring new skills or knowledge
to perform a different job or task) or upskilling
initiatives to ensure employees globally can navigate
the changing demands of the labour market
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