ILO/IOE/CAPE Regional Employers' Meeting on Human Resources Development for Competitiveness

Employers are the principal market for skills. They are also part of the skills development system as developers, providers of incentives and policy-setters. They need to send the right signals to the educational and formal training establishment, and should work with the authorities to create the right policy environment that would optimise the performance of the human resources development system as a whole.

Objectives of the meeting

The meeting will seek to move forward the agenda of the Asia-Pacific employers to make the region an attractive and better place to do business in, and to promote social and economic development for its people. The ILO Bureau for Employers’ Activities has, since 2002, held a series of meetings in collaboration with the International Organization of Employers (IOE) and the Confederation of Asia-Pacific Employers (CAPE) on the overall theme of productivity and competitiveness. This meeting will be the fourth in the series. Participants will get an overall picture of what is happening with respect to the human capacities aspect of competitiveness in the Asia-Pacific region, and what the figures are telling us with respect to likely trends. The human resources scenario will be considered specifically, and participants will relate what they learned from their respective national experiences. Options for improving the situation will be examined, and suggestions for national and, if appropriate, international action will discussed.

The objective of the meeting is for Asian and Pacific employers’ organisations to better understand the skills crisis and to take action in that respect, as appropriate in their respective countries and regionally, supporting each other where necessary. Overcoming the skills crisis is critical to making the economies of the region the most dynamic and competitive in the world, and to offering the people of the region the best living standards available.

Contact:

Mr Roy Chacko, ILO Bureau for Employers’ Activities
Email: chacko@ilo.org, Tel: +41 22 799 7704

Mr Dragan Radic, Senior Specialist on Employers’ Activities
Email: radic@ilo.org, Tel: +66 2 288 2201