Policy Brief: Upgrading Informal Apprenticeship Systems - ILO - (2011)

This policy brief focuses on the opportunities offered by informal apprenticeship systems for improving skill provision in the informal economy to offer young people, especially in developing countries, ways to more productive and decent jobs. The brief then explains that the ILO Skills and Employability Department is working with constituents to upgrade and expand informal apprenticeship systems through technical cooperation projects in Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Country-level research on how the system works, on stakeholders’ experience, and on innovations already under way or planned has been conducted in more than 15 countries, it says.