ILO, the Netherlands ink agreement to support Viet Nam to better address future skills needs in garment sector | News item

Information merchandise | 16-12-2021 | 00:00

Viet Nam’s textiles and garment business is essential to the nation’s development and improvement. It employs about 2.7 million folks, of which a overwhelming majority are ladies, in response to the Ministry of Trade and Commerce. The newest report from the Viet Nam Textile and Attire Affiliation estimated that the textiles and garment business will attain its goal of US$39 billion in export income this yr, equal to the 2019 determine.

Nonetheless, the COVID-19 disaster has hit the business exhausting. Along with manufacturing unit closures and misplaced incomes, the pandemic has accelerated the drivers and megatrends which might be altering textiles and garment manufacturing and work profoundly. These embody automation and digitalization in addition to the introduction of greener and cleaner manufacturing to mitigate local weather change.

As a part of the brand new two-year venture beginning in January 2022, the ILO will assist the Authorities, employers’ and employees’ organizations in Viet Nam to grasp what expertise the business and its employees will want now and sooner or later. The venture will deal with these at highest threat of shedding their jobs on account of the COVID-19 disaster and the elevated automation and digitalization within the industries. This is a crucial step in the direction of constructing a extra resilient, inclusive and sustainable business with respectable work alternatives for extra ladies and men.

The Netherlands believes {that a} sustainable textile worth chain is a precondition for a wholesome restoration from the impression of COVID-19.

“Sustainable enterprise fashions, together with employability and expertise improvement, contribute to the assorted present and future challenges of the business,” stated Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Elsbeth Akkerman. “I’m proud that with this venture we’re taking a subsequent step in the direction of a future proof and sustainable textile and garment sector.”

“Well timed funding in expertise might help velocity up the financial restoration, a protected return to work, cut back the profession scarring results of extended unemployment and expertise mismatch, and make the most of alternatives that will in any other case dissipate over time.”

ILO Viet Nam Officer-in-Cost, Nilim Baruah

“Abilities improvement and lifelong studying performs a key function in addressing the impression of COVID-19, in constructing the resilience of employees and corporations, and in shaping a future that works for all,” stated ILO Viet Nam Officer-in-Cost, Nilim Baruah. “Well timed funding in expertise might help velocity up the financial restoration, a protected return to work, cut back the profession scarring results of extended unemployment and expertise mismatch, and make the most of alternatives that will in any other case dissipate over time. It consists of particular technical expertise wanted by the industries to development, new technical expertise on account of technological and different modifications in work and manufacturing and core employability expertise.”

The brand new venture is guided by the ILO Centenary Declaration for the Way forward for Work (2019) , the ILO World Name to Motion for a Human-Centred Restoration (2021)  and the current Worldwide Labour Convention decision regarding expertise and lifelong studying. It’ll apply classes realized from related ILO garment sector expertise anticipation initiatives within the garment sector in Brazil, Ethiopia, Jordan and Peru, and it’ll construct on the achievements of previous ILO expertise improvement programmes in Viet Nam. The venture will likely be applied in shut collaboration with the IFC-ILO Higher Work Vietnam programme , and the findings and achievements in Viet Nam will likely be shared with different Member States of the ILO via the creation of a regional information platform on future expertise wants in textiles and clothes in Asia and the Pacific.