The ILO’s Global Employment Agenda sets out a vision of how to create growth and jobs and of how labour market policies could be used to support the creation of more and better jobs. Our work focuses on the development of knowledge products and learning events to support the long-term capacity of governments and social partners to contribute to, and influence, the design and implementation of polices and programmes on employment and skills development.

Regular learning events

• an ILO summer school on labour economics for developments
• youth employment
• employment policies
• wage policies
• labour market information
• management of training institutions
• the labour-market inclusion of people with disabilities.

The ILO Skills Academy

The ILO Academy provides a unique opportunity to help government officials and social partners build effective skills-development systems that are responsive to current labour market and economic challenges. It provides a platform for examining existing challenges and discussing effective and innovative approaches to improving skills-development systems and policies.

The ILO Master’s in Applied Labour Economics for Development

The ILO Master’s in Applied Labour Economics for Development at the Turin School of Development is a response to the need for more and more diverse expertise in the design and evaluation of evidence-based policies in which international labour standards and fundamental rights at work go hand in hand with job creation and productive employment. The programme is run by the University of Turin and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po). See http://maled.itcilo.org/