Skills and employability in Pakistan

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ILO’s experience in many countries, including Pakistan, has shown that skills development can play a major role in the alleviation of poverty, when carefully planned and implemented in the context of the available and emerging employment and income-generation opportunities.
The DWCP (2016-22) very much focuses on development of gender responsive and market-driven skills, employment and enterprise development programmes for youth, both women and men. Some of the key strategies that are embedded in the DWCP include:
- replicate and scale up existing good models of “Employment Information Centers” and tools for gender responsive value chain analysis,
- capacitate government, workers’ and employers’ organizations to promote gender responsive skills, employment and enterprise development programmes, and
- provide technical assistance and capacity building support for TVET system reforms to improve access to skills development and employability for youth and vulnerable categories of workers.