OBJECTIVE 18 - SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND RECOGNITION

Objective 18 makes a key contribution to the Global Compact for Migration by promoting regular pathways through mobility based on migrants’ skills. This is beneficial to migrant workers who increase their economic productivity, to employers who satisfy their labour needs, and to origin countries that enhance their economic capabilities through workers’ labor and the reception of remittances.

Objective 18 proposes standardizing the recognition of foreign qualifications, through actions such as:

• Digitalization and aligned National Qualification Frameworks
• The conclusion of bilateral, regional or multilateral mutual recognition agreements (of formally and informally acquired skills)
• Partnership of private sector and educational institutions
• Partnerships for skills development, mobility and circulation
• Enhancing the ability of migrant workers to transition from one job to another

By offering concrete and innovative measures for the recognition of migrant workers’ skills and development, the Global Compact for Migration advances international practices and proposes a clear way forward for origin and destination countries on effective cooperation in the area of skills-based mobility.

Through objective 18, the Global Compact for Migration also contributes to preparing for a future in which skills mobility will play an essential role in ensuring economic productivity in the face of increasing automation, digitalization, and demographic transformations.

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3.C: Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States

 

4.4: By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

4.B: By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries

 

 

 

8.5: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

8.6: By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

 

 

 

10.7: Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17.17: Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships; data, monitoring and accountability

17.18: By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts

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