Timor-Leste: Skills Training for Gainful Employment Programme (STAGE)

The ILO STAGE Programme is to reduce poverty and promote economic growth, building national capacity to deliver a demand driven enterprise and skills training, and contributing to the establishment and development of income generating activities within communities.

The ILO STAGE Programme is to reduce poverty and promote economic growth, building national capacity to deliver a demand driven enterprise and skills training, and contributing to the establishment and development of income generating activities within communities. The core of its defined implementation strategy is based on close cooperation with the Secretariat of State for Labour and Solidarity (Counterpart Institution), in order to ensure continued institution building while developing the programme activities. The Programme envisages the concept of a flexible decentralized approach to skills training, small business development, and micro-enterprise development that will lead to income generation and gainful employment. Accordingly, it will adopt the following integrated components to achieve its objectives:

(i) capacity building of the Secretariat of State for Labour and Solidarity, with specific focus on its Division of Employment and Skills Development and District Employment Centres; (ii) establishment of a national network of training providers capable of delivering a flexible system of formal and non-formal skills and enterprise training; (iii) community empowerment through the delivery of an integrated system of skills and enterprise training. The five year implementation timeframe will ensure that a strong capacity is built within the SSLS and the training providers to develop and deliver enterprise skills training to communities as well as to collect and analyze data to tailor-make training programmes to communities needs and economic opportunities.