TECHNICAL MEETING

THE ROLE OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN PRODUCTIVITY,
EMPLOYMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Salvador, Bahia (Brasil), 20-21 September, 2007

Information Sheet

Agenda

See also: ILO Report: Key indicators of the labour market (KILM). 5th Edition, Geneva 2007 New ILO report says US leads the world in labour productivity, some regions are catching up, most lag behind. Press release ILO/07/47. 02 September 2007. Section Training and Productivity in this Web Site

 

The connection between capacity development and growth of productivity is a subject that is receiving increasing recognition within the analysis of country competitiveness. Not only at the world level, but also regionally and sub-regionally, the effect of training and the educational level of workers can be noticed in the competitiveness of economies.

Recent ILO research has shown up the multiple facets of productivity, employment and poverty (World Employment Report 2007, 2005, 2002, as well as the Changing World of Work 2006). Such analyses have provided new ideas on how productivity and employment growth are linked both in the short term and the long term. Likewise they have made possible a perspective for public policies and social dialogue that includes the objective of maintaining harmonious growth of productivity and employment.

Because of their contribution to the development of skills and competencies, vocational training institutions are a source of comparative advantage to promote growth in productivity and to reflect said growth in more and better jobs. Other critical factors include the social dialogue, macroeconomic policies to increase growth opportunities that help to overcome poverty, a sustainable business environment and investments in basic education, health and physical infrastructure. Better access to relevant vocational training places more workers in a position to take part in the benefits of technological progress and economic growth and is an important policy instrument to ensure a fair and efficient process of adjustment to technological change.

Objetives

The technical meeting is being convened to analyze experiences in the American region linking the development of skills and competencies with the joint enhancement of productivity and employment. Its results will promote the knowledge and diffusion of the practices of training institutions in relation to productivity and the systematisation of lessons learned.

With that purpose a selection of national cases shall be presented that stress:

2.1 The description of national policies on the association between the vocational training of its human resources and the increase in productivity and employment.
2.2 The information and description of experiences and practical cases that illustrate the relationship between training institutions and the joint growth of productivity and employment.
2.3 A set of lessons learned from national experiences that will be useful for the programmes of action that the ILO and the network of institutions clustered around Cinterfor/ILO shall undertake in the future.

 

 

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