Skills contribute to higher and more diversified exports with more job creation Providing the
right skills at the right time is important and requires policy coordination
Training Structure and Content
Training workshop on ″Skills for Trade and
Economic Diversification″ methodology
13-17 June 2016, Sunbird Nkopola, Mangochi, Malawi
Background
Overall Objective
Skills
for
Trade
and
Economic
Diversification (STED) is a sector level
methodology developed by the ILO to
provide guidance for the integration of skills
development in sectoral policies. It is
designed to help identify skills needed to
support growth and decent employment
creation in sectors that have the potential to
increase exports and contribute to economic
diversification. STED takes a forwardlooking perspective, anticipating a sector’s
development and growth opportunities based
on its global competitive position and
market development. Together with an
analysis of current skills supply and demand,
this provides an outlook on existing and
future skills shortages. Thus, STED supports
the development of skills for which there is
demand in the labour market and helps to
avoid skills mismatches.
The overall objective of the workshop is to
enhance the capacity of national and sectoral
practitioners, social partners, training
providers and academic Institutions to:-
The
Malawi National Export Strategy
recommends application of Skills for Trade
and Economic Diversification methodology
to help identify the skill sets and the
volumes of skills required to allow the
productive base to emerge and to keep up
with demands on consumption and imports.
• Representatives
of
Workers’
and
Employers’
Organizations
and
representatives of sectoral organizations
and Associations
The STED analytical research has already
been undertaken in at least two sectors in
Malawi, namely; Oilseeds and Horticulture.
• Analyse and anticipate skill needs in
export-oriented sectors that have growth
potential, and
• Design effective skills response strategies
that contribute to higher and more
diversified exports with more and better
job creation.
Target Audience
The training content is addressed to a mixed
audience including:
• Representatives
of
Government
Ministries and apex organizations
• Representatives of training Institutions
and Universities and research Institutions.
Learning Outcomes
This 5 days’ training workshop will take place At the end of the Workshop, participants will be
in Mangochi, Malawi. It adopts a good mix of able to:
technical content and action learning through • identify priority sectors with growth
group works. The technical content will be
potential in which skills can make
organized as following:
difference;
Day 1
• Introduction to STED: Why? and
What?
• Malawi National Export Strategy
• STED development logic, Sector
selection and Policy coherence
• STED Process, Social Dialogue,
Stakeholders
• STED Analysis: Sector Position and
Outlook, Part 1
Day 2
• STED Analysis: Sector Position and
Outlook, Part 2
• STED Analysis: Business Capability
Gaps
Day 3
• STED Analysis: Skills implications
• STED Analysis: Skills Supply and
Skills Gaps Analysis
Day 4
• STED Recommendations and
implementation, Capacity Building
and Sustainability
• STED RBM and M&E frameworks
Day 5
• Institutionalizing STED
• Developing Recommendations and
Action Planning
• anticipate sectors’ development and growth
opportunities based on global competitive
position and market development;
• identify gaps between the capabilities now
and what will be needed in future success;
• identify skills implications of tackling those
business capability gaps;
• identify supply and demand of skills that are
important for sectors’ skills development
implications;
• integrate skills development in sector growth
strategies, building up and using labour
market information, and strengthening
institutions for social dialogue to link trade,
employment and skills policies;
• formulate common arguments in a multistakeholder context in order to promote
coherent policies for effective skills response
strategies;
• formulate skills-based strategies and action
plans to improve sector performance;
• articulate clearly how these strategies are
expected to impact on sectors’ growth and
employment;
• develop
recommendations
institutionalizing STED in Malawi.
for
For further détails Contact:ILO, STED Project, Area 13, Evelyn Court,
P. O. Box 30135, Lilongwe 3, Malawi
Tel: 265 1 773 466