Supporting Skills and Career Development of Under-represented Groups: Equal Access to Training and Career Development Opportunities
This webinar aims to raise awareness to HR
practitioners and public about how to provide equal access to skill and
career development for underrepresented groups.
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately
affected many people. The pandemic is also exposing and deepening
existing inequalities, and disproportionately affecting marginalized and
vulnerable communities that are, too often, left without access to
critical tools and services. Inequalities, fuelled by stigma and
discrimination, have obstructed the access to employment for many
people, including women, people with disabilities, people living with
HIV, compounding the economic hardships those people already faced
before the pandemic.
Furthermore, skills and career development
are an important aspect of career development. People from the
abovementioned groups often have limited proportions and opportunities
in the world of work. This inequality is closely related to access and
barriers that make this group under-represented in the world of work.
How to empower this group so that they can get equal opportunities to
skills and career development on a par with other workers?
HR
practitioners play significant roles to make an inclusive workplace. A
better understanding on how to support skill and career development for
those under-represented group can help HR practitioners to make the
workplace more inclusive. Therefore, ILO Jakarta collaborates with
Gerakan Nasional Indonesia Kompeten (GNIK) to conduct a webinar on
Supporting Skills and Career Development of Under-represented Groups:
Equal Access to Training and Career Development Opportunities. In this
topic HR practitioners will share their knowledge and best practice on
how to provide equal access to skill and career development for
underrepresented groups.
This webinar is a part of the
“Employment and Livelihood: An Inclusive Approach to Economic
Empowerment of Women & Vulnerable Populations in Indonesia” project.
The project is funded by the UN Multi-Partner Trust Funds (UN MPTF).
Four UN agencies, International Labour Organization (ILO), UN
Development Programme (UNDP), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
(UNAIDS), and UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) implement the project.
Objectives
This
webinar aims to raise awareness to HR practitioners and public about
how to provide equal access to skill and career development for
underrepresented groups. By having the awareness, it is expected that
the audience – mainly HR practitioners – can make their workplaces to be
equal, non-discriminative, and inclusive for everyone.