SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IMPACT EVALUATION A practical guide

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IMPACT EVALUATION A practical guide

Skills development impact evaluation

A practical guide

EDITORS Nina Billorou Martha Pacheco Fernando Vargas

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Vocational Training Institutions' Network Skills development impact evaluation. A practical guide

Montevideo: ILO/Cinterfor, 2011. 108 p.

Glossary: p. 91 ISBN: 978-92-9088-257-2

VOCATIONAL TRIANING/ COMPETENCIES/ SKILLS/ IMPACT EVALUATION/ EVALUATION/ ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT/ DECENT WORK/ ENTERPRISE/ SOCIAL DIALOGUE/ COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

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Skills development impact evaluation

Content

Presentation........................................................................................................................ 7

Introduction........................................................................................................................ 9 Why is a skills development impact evaluation guide necessary?........................ 9 What does this Guide entail?..................................................................................... 9 Who is it for?.................................................................................................................. 10 How is it structured?..................................................................................................... 10 What are the characteristics of impact this Guide and how can it be used?..... 11

Theme 1 Context................................................................................................................ 13 1.1. How are skills development to economic and social development?.......... 14 1.2. How does skills development impact on people, enterprises and society?. 14 1.3. How does skills development, decent work and impact evaluation relate to each other?.......................................................................................................... 16

Theme 2 Conceptualization............................................................................................. 19 2.1. What does evaluation mean?........................................................................... 20 2.2. What does skills development evaluation involve?......................................... 21 2.3. What does impact evaluation mean?.............................................................. 23 2.4. What is the difference between monitoring, mid-term evaluation and impact evaluation?........................................................................................................... 25 2.5. Why should impact be evaluated?................................................................... 25 2.6. For what purpose should skills development impact be evaluated?........... 27

Theme 3 Participation of the social partners in the evaluation.................................... 29 3.1. How should we understand social dialogue and collective bargaining in the field of skills development?...................................................................... 30 3.2. Who are the social partners in skills development impact evaluation?........ 32 3.3. What role does the State play in promoting social dialogue for the skills development impact evaluation?.................................................................... 33 3.4. ?How do social partners participate in the impact evaluation?................... 33 3.5. What are the challenges to the effective participation of social partners?. 35

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