The Working Group was launched in 1996 with a view to provide a forum to promote the exchange of new ideas and good practices, highlight key issues in the field of skills development and stimulate dialogue among its members. Central to the activities of the Working Group is the notion of co-opertation which should help harmonise thinking, reduce the risks of duplication and fragmentation of effort and ultimately lead toward more effective programme of assistance in the field of skills development
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The notion of skills development chosen by the Working Group defines a common field of activity involving a broad range of actors in education, training and production systems. It reflects a today concern with thinking beyond State controlled vocational and education training systems and places the emphasis on more varied modalities of formal and non-formal type of training.
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The Working Group meets at least once a year and the meetings are hosted and financed on an ad-hoc basis by its members. A light but effective steering of the Working Group is at present carried out by a tripartite Secretariat composed of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Network for Policy Review Research and Advice on Education and Training (NORRAG) located at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (University of Geneva).
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