Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

Life-long Learning and Skilling Project

Project background

The APEC Life-Long Learning and Skilling project brings together experts, policy makers, and other stakeholders from across the Asia-Pacific region to share practices and models of successful cross-sector partnerships to generate policy recommendations to expand access to learning and skilling opportunities for unemployed and displaced adult workers.

This project aims to build the capacity of economies to better support workers who aim to obtain more education, qualifications, or skills, especially in the wake of COVID-19 when unemployment and displacement increased on average, and highlight innovative policies, practices, and by ensuring that all workers, including vulnerable workers, are able to reach their full potential in the labor force.

Project information

The APEC Life-Long Learning and Skilling project (APEC number HRD 02 2021A) was sponsored by the United States Department of Education through the APEC Education Network, with the support of cosponsoring economies Australia; Canada; Indonesia; Japan; Korea; Malaysia; Mexico; New Zealand; the Philippines; Singapore; and Chinese Taipei.

For information about the project, contact Project Overseer Savannah Wallace, United States Department of Education (Savannah.Wallace@ed.gov) or Aaron Neumann (ANeumann@sdsolutionsllc.com).