Boosting productivity and competitiveness in the workplace
To help make workplaces more productive and internationally competitive, Azerbaijan plans to introduce 500 new occupational standards - the skills, knowledge and performance required of professional tasks.
Three hundred existing standards will be also updated through the investment over the next 3-4 years. The move was endorsed a recent meeting in Baku, where senior government officials, ETF experts, social partners, international donors and the EU Delegation developed roadmaps in priority sectors.
The standards will be promoted through education, employers, training and assessment and through the validation of non-formal and informal learning, which will support the two-thirds of the workforce is without official qualification.
Occupational standards have been discussed since 2005 in Azerbaijan. Since 2010, the Ministry of Social Policy and Protection of Population has developed more than 300 standards and will start using them for the validation of informal and non-formal learning.
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