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Increasing developing country workforce skills is an important area of focus for USAID. USAID's workforce development activities, called Global Workforce in Transition, aim to help nations develop systems to provide skills for employment and create public/private partnerships, that lead to better employment and income for family and community stability. These activities provide expertise and technical support to countries addressing workforce development areas and issues such as:

  • The demand side of the labor market—identifying where jobs exist and can be expanded and assessing employer's needs for skilled workers;
  • The supply side of the market - workers, job seekers, potential job seekers and the education and training institutions that help people gain the skills and knowledge needed for employment; and
  • The labor marketplace itself in which firms seeking workers and people seeking employment connect to improve firm competitiveness, individual economic betterment, and economic growth and poverty reduction at the societal level.

Specifically, these activities are targeted to:

  • Assess the needs and impacts of workforce development;
  • Foster increased public-private sector stakeholder collaboration in addressing workforce and competitiveness skill needs;
  • Analyze the "skills value chain" to help industries improve their competitiveness,
  • Assist host country governments, PVOs, NGOs, trade unions and education institutions to assess, design, implement and evaluate workforce development programs;
  • Increase host country capacity to develop and implement their own sustainable strategies for workforce development;
  • Improve education and skill development policy and reform efforts to produce a skilled citizenry;
  • Facilitate access to technology-based on-demand learning and employment opportunities; and
  • Broker new partnerships between Mission country organizations and their U.S. counterparts, such as trade organizations, technical and community colleges, professional organizations and NGOs.

To learn more about Global Workforce in Transition activities click here.

USAID also provides access to the considerable strength of American Universities and Community Colleges for leveraged Workforce Development Partnerships through the ALO Partnership Mechanism. Read more about this key USAID program here.

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