strategy
Enhancing vocational training capacity
Synonyms:
Expanding available vocational optionsEnabling constant vocational training
Providing sufficient vocational training programmes
Adapting vocational training
Improving vocational training
Context:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends such improvements with respect to integrating environment and development in decision-making.
Implementation:
ILO enhances the contribution of vocational training to economic and social development, especially in developing countries. The programme: increases the capacity of vocational training systems to adapt to changing employment needs and prepare workers for self-employment; improves the quality and range of skills of the labour force; increases the efficiency of vocational training systems; and enhances the incomes of poorer and more vulnerable population groups, especially women and youth in rural areas.
Narrower:
Developing handicap trainingTraining vocational teachersIncreasing access to training resourcesImproving information on vocational trainingImproving ability of rural communities to take advantage of vocational trainingProviding trade schools Facilitates:
Training for jobsTaking advantage of vocational trainingEnsuring sustainability by national development strategy adjustments Facilitated by:
Developing vocational training Values:
CapacityUnemploymentOvercapacityUndercapacityUnproductivityUnderemploymentCounterproductivity Organizations:
International Labour Organization EUROTECNET Pan American Development Foundation Convention concerning vocational guidance and vocational training in the development of human resources Subjects:
Communication → PromotionDevelopment → Reform
Economics → Productivity
Education → Training
Education → Vocational guidance
Social Activity → Employment
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
