UNESCO Publications
Below you can find a selection of UNESCO publications that are relevant in the context of TVET. For the full catalogue, please use the UNESCO Digital library
Occupational foresight methodological guide
The main goal of this methodology is to build scenarios of the future of an activity aiming to determine the skills and competencies that will be needed in the medium term (5 to 10 years) to perform the activity as well as to provide policy recommend ...
Skills forecasting in the South Mediterranean region
Approaches and lessons learned from pilot projects
South Mediterranean countries are facing high youth unemployment and are concerned about structural imbalances in their labour markets. They have expressed increasing interest in developing evidence-based employment policies in order to tackle the st ...
Actions to Foster Expansion of Quality Work-Based Learning Programmes for Young People in the South Mediterranean Region
Policy Guidelines
This report aims to inform policymakers and practitioners in the Arab region and other countries and agencies supporting the development of TVET about what steps might be taken by the government, social partnerships, TVET training institutions, priva ...
Improving Work-Based Learning (WBL) Programmes for Young People in the South Mediterranean Region
Regional Guidelines
This set of practical guidelines aims to inform policymakers, social partners and practitioners in the Southern Mediterranean countries about organizing, implementing, managing, and evaluating effective work-based learning (WBL) programs for young pe ...
Perspectives on policy and practice. Tapping into the potential of big data for skills policy
This publication has been prepared by the Inter-Agency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training on skills mismatch in digitized labour markets, to support experts and policymakers who wish to engage in discussion on the potential of w ...
Reviewing Work-Based Learning Programmes for Young People in the Arab Region
A Comparative and Longitudinal Analysis
This report is based on eight country case studies and seeks to inform policymakers and practitioners in the Arab States, including private sector and civil society about how to design and manage effective work-based learning programmes targeting you ...
Global education monitoring report 2019. Gender report: Building bridges for gender equality
The 2019 Gender Report is based on a monitoring framework first introduced in the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report. In addition to focusing on gender parity in education participation, attainment and learning achievement, the framework examine ...
Artificial intelligence in education: challenges and opportunities for sustainable development
Artificial Intelligence is a booming technological domain capable of altering every aspect of our social interactions. In education, AI has begun producing new teaching and learning solutions that are now undergoing testing in different contexts. Thi ...
The CapED Programme: annual report 2018
Education reforms can only be effective if countries have the capacities to make them operational, with not just trained staff, but with effective organizational processes, functioning institutions and the existence of tools and resources to plan, im ...
Reviewing Work-Based Learning Programmes for Young People in Lebanon
Work-Based Learning Study
This report, a UNESCO initiative, under Youth Employment in the Mediterranean (YEM) Project funded by EU, examines Work-Based Learning programmes for young people in Lebanon. The information collected and research conducted follows the methodology an ...
Reviewing Work-Based Learning Programmes for Young People in Palestine
WBL Study
This report, a UNESCO initiative, under Youth Employment in the Mediterranean (YEM) Project funded by EU, examines Work-Based Learning programmes for young people in Palestine. The information collected and research conducted follows the methodology ...
Acteurs et partenariats dans le secteur de la formation professionnelle
Une des voies reconnues pour améliorer l’efficacité des systèmes de formation professionnelle est le développement de partenariats entre acteurs publics, acteurs privés et société civile. Mais qu’entend-t-on précisément par partenariats ...
I'd blush if I could
Closing gender divides in digital skills through education
This publication seeks to expose some of these biases and put forward ideas to begin closing a digital skills gender gap that is, in most parts of the world, wide and growing. Today, women and girls are 25 per cent less likely than men to know how to ...
Guidebook on education for sustainable development for educators
The guidebook on Education for Sustainable Development for Educators: Effective teaching and learning in teacher education institutions in Africa has been conceived as a tool to mainstream sustainability into all aspects of teacher ed ...
Issues and trends in Education for Sustainable Development
In order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the ESD concept and ESD practices, this publication is divided into two parts: Understanding Education for Sustainable Development and Implementing Education for Sustainable Development. The fi ...
Global Education Meeting 2018: synthesis report
The report is organized into five sections. The first section synthesizes the key points from the Brussels Declaration as well as the debates and discussions from GEM 2018, clustering them around some of the main characteristics of education in the 2 ...
Profile booklet: key partners of the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development (April 2018)
This booklet contains profiles of the current 96 members (also called Key Partners) of the GAP Partner Networks. Each Key Partner is listed in alphabetical order within one of the five Partner Networks. Each profile ...
Mid-term review of the UNESCO Operational Strategy on Youth (2014-2021)
The UNESCO Operational Strategy on Youth for 2014-2021 (OSY) guides the Organization’s work on Youth in the different strands of work within UNESCO’s mandate. It aims to ensure that young women and men are engaged in policies and programmes that ...
Arab Region Outcome Statement: towards inclusive and equitable quality learning opportunities for all
Recognizing that education is a fundamental human right and reiterating that Education 2030 agenda is inextricably linked with, and contributes to, the realization of our aspirations as set out in the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Developm ...
Pathways to empowerment
recognizing the competences of Syrian refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey
This publication is the result of close collaboration between the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in Hamburg, Germany, and the UNESCO Beirut Office and Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States. The idea o ...
Biennial Report 2016/2017
UNESCO Beirut and Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States
As a Regional Bureau for Education, UNESCO Beirut (UBO) provides support to the Arab Region to improve the quality and relevance of education and learning and promote a holistic approach to education encompassing all levels, pathways and modes of del ...
The CapED Programme: annual report 2017
The CapED Programme is UNESCO’s key operational arm and delivery platform in the framework of the Education 2030 agenda. With a capacity development approach focused on system strengthening, it supports least developed and fragile countries in the ...
Work Based Learning in Jordan
This case study seeks to provide current information on the state of WBL in Jordan by examining the national context, the nature and extent of WBL, policies and legislations, employer and employee organizations, resources to improve the quality of WB ...
Review on Labor Market Information System (LMIS) in Lebanon
The report covers assessments on labor market studies’ methodologies, data collection, and interest in LMIS in Lebanon. The interviews identified barriers for data collection but producers expressed interest in gathering data from a national LMIS t ...
UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT-CFT)
Version 3
The ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT CFT) Version 3 is a tool to guide pre- and in- service teacher training on the use of ICTs across the education system. It is intended to be adapted and contextualized to support national and institution ...



























