This Resource Guide for Workers’ Organizations has been designed for the training of
facilitators from workers’ organizations and ILO specialists who are engaged in capacitybuilding activities, so as to be better equipped to:
X promote the engagement of workers’ organizations in skills development and lifelong
learning processes and systems, on the basis of already existing experience;
X communicate background technical information about the skills development and lifelong
learning processes and systems that workers’ organizations are most likely to engage
with;
X provide workshop materials for use by ILO SKILLS and ACTRAV field specialists, as part
of their ongoing activities with workers’ organizations;
X provide workshop materials for use by key staff within workers’ organizations, to support
their engagement with workers; and
X extend the range of core trade union services that will help grow the trade union and
extend its membership base.
What is in this Resource Guide for Workers’
Organizations?
This Resource Guide for Workers’ Organizations is made up of nine modules, consisting
of:
X a set of introductory materials for each of the four common core sections (Part A) and
for each of the five issue-specific sections (Part B), in this way providing an overview of
the most salient elements of skills development and lifelong learning systems, and of
why and how workers’ organizations should engage in these processes;
X a set of workshop materials for each of the common core sections (Part A) and for the
five issue-specific sections (Part B), in this way contributing in practical terms to improving
capacity building in workers’ organizations.
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This Resource Guide is structured as follows:
Part A: A common core of modules that examine:
1. Why workers’ organizations should engage in skills development and lifelong learning;
2. What issues affect the engagement of workers’ organizations in skills development and
lifelong learning;
3. How workers’ organizations engage in skills development and lifelong learning; and
4. What the priority areas for workers’ organizations are.
Part B: Five issue-specific modules that present:
5. Policies, governance and funding for skills development;
6. Anticipation of and planning for skills requirements;
7. Delivery, recognition and certification of skills;
8. Access to skills for all; and
9. Skills for employability and decent work.
Each of these modules includes a short presentation of the issue and a set of capacitybuilding activities.
Each of these modules also includes a selection of references and suggestions for further
reading.
