Helping people to develop and use skills effectively is crucial for people and countries to thrive in an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world. Fully recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic will also require countries to reskill workers who have lost their jobs and to adopt new strategies for making effective use of people’s skills in and out of the workplace.
In helping to achieve this, the OECD assesses skills challenges and opportunities, and looks to help countries to build more effective skills systems through tailor-made policy responses, while using the OECD Skills Strategy framework as its foundation.
3. OECD Skills Strategy Dashboard:
Developing relevant skills
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Note: These summary indicators are calculated as a simple average of a range of underlying indicators. All underlying indicators have been normalised in a way that implies
that a higher value and being among the “top 20%” reflects better performance. The "x" indicates insufficient or no available data and dotted circles indicate missing data for
at least one underlying indicator.
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OECD Skills Strategy Dashboard:
Using Skills Effectively
Note: These summary indicators are calculated as a simple average of a range of underlying indicators. All underlying indicators have been normalised in a way that implies
that a higher value and being among the “top 20%” reflects better performance. The "x" indicates insufficient or no available data and dotted circles indicate missing data for
at least one underlying indicator.
6. Mapping of the skills system
A whole-of-government approach
Stakeholder Engagement
International good practices and
peer learning
Inputs
Policy priority identification
Tailored policy recommendations
Guidance for policy implementation
Awareness raising
Outputs
A diverse, cross-sectoral team
Our approach
7. Fostering whole-of-government collaboration
OECD team
OECD Directorate for
Education
OECD Directorate for
Employment, Labour and
Social Affairs
OECD Centre for Skills
Other Directorates
External experts
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National project team
Ministry of Education and
Science
Ministry of Economy
Ministry of Welfare
And more…
Cross-sectoral
Coordination Centre
Employers’ Confederation
of Latvia
Latvian Confederation of
Free Trade Unions.
8. Engaging stakeholders
Assessment Workshop
The Hague, Netherlands
12 May 2016
Regional Workshop
Madrid, Spain
3-4 November 2014
Active Learning Workshop
Seoul, South Korea
15 December 2015
Assessment Workshop
Mexico City, Mexico
9 June 2016
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Recommendations Workshop
Belfast, Northern Ireland
22 January 2020
Assessment Brussels,
Belgium
15 May 2018
Recommendations Workshop
Warsaw, Poland
28 May 2019
Assessment Workshop
Luxembourg
27 October 2021
11. To discuss OECD’s work on national skills
strategies, please contact:Andrew.Bell@oecd.org
To learn more about the OECD’s work
on skills visit: www.oecd.org/skills/
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The National Skills Strategy team has worked with more than 18 countries on 26 National Skill Strategy projects so far…
In our country work, regardless of the work stream, we strive to have high impact on the ground through the following key inputs and outputs:
We start by:
Forming a diverse, cross-sectoral project team
Engaging actors across the whole of government
Mapping the skills system
Engaging stakeholders in consultations and,
Identifying international best practices while facilitating international peer-learning opportunities
These inputs then allow us to:
Identify policy priorities
Develop policy recommendations
Provide implementation guidance, and
Raise awareness about the importance of skills and of our recommendations to foster broad support for reform
Our projects aim to foster whole-of-government collaboration
As skills policy lies at the intersection of many other policy domains, including education, labour market, industrial, innovation and immigration policy, for example, it is necessary to have the active engagement of all of the ministries with responsibilities in these areas.
Therefore, in our projects we have worked with National Project Teams comprised of representatives of anywhere between 3-9 ministries
In the case of Latvia, the National Project Team was led by the Ministry Education and Science but also involved representatives from the ministries economy, and welfare, plus a host of agencies and stakeholders
However, fostering good skills outcomes is not only the responsibility of government, but stakeholders as well, such as employers, labour unions and educational and training institutions.
Accordingly, the OECD works with each national team to engage key national stakeholders in a number of interactive workshops and meetings in order to:
generate a consensus about what are the most important skills and opportunities in countries
Solicit the views of stakeholders on what can be done to improve skills outcomes.
build a commitment to take joint action to address these challenges and seize these opportunities.
Prior to the pandemic, we had the honour to welcome participants in person at the OECD headquarters in Paris.
However, in 2020 many of you joined us for the virtual Peer-Learning Workshop.
This year again, we are connecting virtually, but sincerely hope that we will be able to welcome you in Paris in 2022.