G20 Development Working Group Submissions
3.3 Policy Workshops in 2013
3.3.1 G20 DWG Workshop on Human
Resource Development
The G20 DWG Workshop on Human Resources
Development (HRD) took place in Moscow, Russia
on 13-14 May 2013. The workshop brought
together G20 countries, international agencies, and
representatives from three of the four pilot countries
under the MYAP HRD pillar: Bangladesh, Benin and
Malawi. Participants discussed the development and
implementation of the internationally comparable
skills indicators and the HRD Knowledge-Sharing
Platform.
Key messages on what participants thought
the G20 could do included:
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take into account specific conditions in some
countries regarding the skills indicators and the
need to complement the proposed international
indicators with nationally elaborated country-
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specific indicators;
ensure that the work on both actions be continued
to fully capitalize on the progress that had been
achieved;
the need to stimulate the development of labor
market information systems and a stronger
dialogue between employers, trade unions and
the education and training system with a view to
better matching the needs of employers;
tackle the difficulties many countries are facing in
collecting and analyzing statistical information
on skills through additional capacity-building
efforts;
the need for the identification of skill needs in
specific sectors, such as the development of
rural employment capacities to boost agriculture
productivity;
help the involved countries to overcome difficulties
in implementing their Skills Development Action
Plans; and
look for synergies between the HRD and other
G20 areas,
such as infrastructure development
and food security.
In Bangladesh, the objective of the HRD pilot country support program is to improve inter-agency support for the National Action Plan to implement
the National Skills Development Policy. At the HRD workshop in May, industry and government representatives identified successes and lessons
learned. Coordination meetings are convened at regular intervals by the Government and managers of ILO, ACB, and WB projects participate in
the management committees of all three projects. The projects have helped build a new spirit of partnership between government and industry by
strengthening the work of nine industry sector skills councils to help develop curriculum, assess skills acquisition, improve skills data systems, and
motivate utilization of higher skills by business. Technical cooperation projects are all geared towards achieving the goals set in the National Skills
Development Policy on gender, on the inclusion of people with disabilities, and on extending better training in rural areas. The program has raised
expectations for further strengthening the mechanisms for inter-ministerial coordination to ensure that skills development is aligned with the country's
goals to achieve middle-income status by 2021 and to create some 20 million new jobs.
3.3.2 DWG Workshop on Inclusive Green
Growth
The DWG Workshop on Inclusive Green Growth
(IGG) took place on 7 July 2013 in Moscow. It
was an opportunity to expand the G20's dialogue
with representatives from developing countries,
especially LICs, on the lessons learned in designing
and implementing IGG strategies. Participants
comprised G20 countries, representatives from
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IOs and ten government experts from developing
countries from across Africa, Asia and Latin America:
Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Moldova, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra
Leone, Philippines and Vietnam. The workshop
provided an opportunity to examine the practical
application on the ground in implementing specific
tools in the Annex to the G20 report "A Toolkit of
Policy Options to Support Inclusive Green Growth"
(IGG Toolkit), and the state of play with respect toView entire presentation