Answer to Question #236224 in English for Vuyisile

Question

In conclusion ,mension two values and two skills you have acquired doing project

Answer 1

Skills development should form part of an effective response to changing conditions. Technology and trade have significant impacts on countries whatever their level of development. Climate change may have a similar impact in the future. Technological changes offer the potential for higher productivity and new industries, and have created new jobs with new skills, but have also resulted in job losses and changing skills requirements. Trade policy offers new opportunities and the potential for participating in global value chains, but also poses transition challenges for domestic industries. Climate change is likely to alter patterns of energy use, impacting on how industry conducts its operations and raising demand for new skills across a broad range of agricultural, transportation, manufacturing and construction industries. 

Current thinking on development issues is going through a major intellectual and policy shift. Central to this change of mindset is the realization that reducing poverty in a sustainable way cannot be achieved by simply having high and sustained growth. There is also a need to put good labour market performance at the centre of economic and social policies to ensure that growth is inclusive and creates productive employment and decent jobs. This realization has come from at least two sources: the disappointment with the standard policy packages of the past, focused on macroeconomic stabilization or just growth of GDP; and the failure of even many high-growth countries to translate this growth into better labour market outcomes and standards of living for the majority of their populations. Even in countries where economic growth has been high and sustained the labour market, outcomes have frequently not been satisfactory, not enough jobs have been generated (declining employment content of growth), and too many of the jobs created are of low productivity and low pay in the informal economy. The poverty reduction paradigm behind the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is also moving closer to a labour-market-centred approach. This is based on the reasoning that labour is the only asset of the poor and that a growth process that does not create more and better jobs with adequate social protection might fail to reduce poverty for a large proportion of people. An educated and skilled workforce is a critical component of this new emphasis on labour markets and their performance. The ILO has for years been advising member States on skills development policies, and developing research and analysis in this area. Skills development policies constitute a core element of the ILO’s Global Employment Agenda (GEA), the ILO’s policy framework for the employment promotion objective of the Decent Work Agenda. The Human Resources Development Recommendation, 2004 (No. 195), also provides guidance for effective skills and employment policies. Given the importance of these issues, the ILO’s 2008 International Labour Conference (ILC) general discussion on how skills development could better serve the twin objectives of increasing the quantity of labour employed and the productivity of labour was timely. The 2008 ILC adopted, by tripartite agreement between workers, employers and governments, conclusions that provide a forward-looking framework for strengthening linkages between skills, productivity, employment, development and decent work. These conclusions underscore the principle that effective skills development policies need to be integral components of national development strategies in order to prepare the workforce and enterprises for new opportunities and adopt a forward-looking approach to dealing with change. In order to successfully link skills to productivity, employment creation and development, skills development policies should target three objectives: matching supply to current demand for skills; helping workers and enterprises adjust to change; and anticipating and delivering the new and different skills that will be needed in the future.