E-learning on the skills dimensions of labour migration and mobility

In this course, organized in close cooperation with the ILO’s MIGRANT and SKILLS branches, participants learn about the skills dimensions of migration and how to design programmes to improve skills development and recognition initiatives for migrants.

OBJECTIVES

Participants leave this course

• Connect to a global network of professionals operating in skills-related programs for migrant workers and labour migration governance.

• Understand labour market needs of countries of destination and mechanisms to address skills shortages

• Integrate tools for skills anticipation and matching for managing labour migration flows

• Design and apply skills recognition approaches to facilitate access to training and to the labour market

• Conceive skills development-related actions for specific migrant worker target groups

• Assess the value of skills partnerships between origin and destination countries.

• Appreciate the linkages between labour migration, employment and training policies

CONTENT

The course covers topics including but not limited to:

• Skills anticipation and matching

• Transparency, recognition and portability of skills

• Skills development for migrant workers before, during and after migration

• Coherence between employment and labour migration policies

• Skills component into bilateral and multilateral labour migration agreements

• Case studies promoting skills development

• Dynamics of skills mobility and skills partnerships for development.

ACHIEVEMENT

• Complete the 6 weekly quizzes

• Contribute to the weekly forums

• Complete a group work

• Write an individual essay

NUMBER OF HOURS: 60