Human Resources Development

Labour Markets and Human Resources Development

The quality of human resources is a prerequisite for the creation of competitive enterprises and economies.

GFA’s approach to improve education and training systems is firmly rooted in its country context, and shaped by life long learning practices and processes in Europe and elsewhere. Student centred, competency-based, demand driven, and cooperative learning systems have proved to deliver skills and qualifications relevant to the labour markets – the needs of the individuals as well as the work places, and ultimately the society as a whole. International good practice is used to develop solutions adapted to the specific country context, always keeping with some fundamental principles:

• A holistic approach to education, and in particular to vocational education and training, with an emphasis on developing key competencies (technical, methodological, social);
• Key organisational elements such as a combination of different places of learning (school, enterprise), and learning processes that link to work processes;
• As in other policy fields, in line with the subsidiarity principle, public and private sector as well as civil society have crucial roles to play in negotiating and shaping the actual framework and implementation practices of national education and training systems.

Apart from organisational, curriculum, and infrastructure development in support of supply side institutions (labour and education administrations, schools, technical colleges, private training providers, higher education institutions), GFA's expertise includes capacity development of intermediary labour market institutions to improve labour market information systems and matching functions (such as career guidance; counselling; retraining).

Specific sector know how stemming from GFA’s other strategic business areas very often adds particular value to specific solutions that are embedded in a multi-level, systemic view of ongoing reform processes. With its in-house training unit "C³ - Creation of Competence for Competition" and team of trainers, GFA possesses of a powerful and highly adaptable tool and adult learning training methodology that can be deployed in different contexts that call for a structured approach to organisational capacity development.