OECD Skills Strategy Diagnostic Report

OECD Skills Strategy OECD Skills Strategy Diagnostic Report Diagnostic Report Peru Peru Better skills policies help build economic resilience, boost employment and reinforce social cohesion. The OECD Skills Strategy provides countries with a framework to analyse their 2016 skills strengths and challenges. Each OECD Skills Strategy diagnostic report reflects a set of skills challenges identified by broad stakeholder engagement and OECD comparative evidence while offering concrete examples of how other countries have tackled similar skills challenges. These reports tackle questions such as: How can countries maximise their skills potential? How can they improve their performance in developing relevant skills, activating skills supply and using skills effectively? What is the benefit of a whole-of-government approach to skills? How can governments build stronger partnerships with employers, trade unions, teachers and students to deliver better skills outcomes? OECD Skills Strategy diagnostic reports provide new insights into these questions and help identify the core components of successful skills strategies. This report is part of the OECD’s ongoing work on building effective national skills strategies. Write to us Directorate for Education and Skills - OECD 2, rue André Pascal - 75775 Paris Cedex 16 - FRANCE [email protected] Connect with us on Educationtoday: www.oecd.org/edu/educationtoday YouTube: www.youtube.com/EDUcontact Twitter: twitter.com/OECD_Edu # OECDSkills Slideshare: www.slideshare.net/OECDEDU Get free education reports and statistics • gpseducation.oecd.org for more data on education and skills • www.oecd.org/education for a selection of free downloadable OECD reports and data • www.oecd.org/edu/workingpapers for a series of education working papers • www.pisa.oecd.org for the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data • www.oecd.org/skills for OECD work on skills Further reading OECD (2012), Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Lives: A Strategic Approach to Skills Policies, OECD Publishing. OECD (2013), OECD Skills Outlook 2013: First Results from the Survey of Adult Skills, OECD Publishing. OECD (2015), OECD Skills Outlook 2015: Youth, Skills and Employability, OECD Publishing Building the right skills can help countries improve economic prosperity and social cohesion Economic prosperity Social cohesion In what way? By contributing to By supporting By supporting high social outcomes such improvement in levels of as health, civil and productivity and employment in social engagement. growth. good quality jobs. How is this achieved? By strengthening skills systems Designing and Funding skills through Providing good implementing an public and private information for the evidence-based sources and designing public, businesses and national skills strategy. eective incentives for policy makers. employers and individuals. t skills Activat an ing v le sk e i r l ls g s n i u p p p o l l y e v e D Strengthening skills systems Contributes to SKILLS Contributes to economic DEVELOPING social prosperity cohesion P u t e t s in u g s ve ki cti lls to ee © OECD. All rights reserved OECD SKILLS STRATEGY DIAGNOSTIC REPORT: PERU SKILLS STRATEGY ABOUT THE OECD The OECD is a unique forum where governments work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisation provides a setting where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies. The OECD member countries are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. The European Commission takes part in the work of the OECD. ABOUT THIS REPORT This paper is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD member countries. This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. 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Now is the time to harness Peru’s skills and human capital to drive innovation and inclusive growth for the future while dealing more effectively with informality. Paving the path to growth, prosperity, and wellbeing will hinge upon developing high levels of skills that are relevant to the needs of the labour market, facilitating job growth and efficient transitions and returns to work, and making the best use of skills in workplaces. Making this happen in practice requires concerted government action. Peru has undertaken a number of reforms aiming to improve the responsiveness of the labour market and education system, enhance the fiscal framework, and boost the business sector. Yet governments cannot achieve better skills outcomes alone. Success will depend on the commitment and actions of a broad range of stakeholders. Skills do more than just raise employment, income and aggregate growth. Data from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) show that in all countries, adults with higher foundation skills, such as literacy and numeracy, are far more likely than those with lower skills to report good health, to perceive themselves as actors in political processes, and to have trust in others. In short, achieving higher skills levels for all fosters equity and facilitates people’s participation in democracy and society. The OECD Skills Strategy provides countries with a framework for developing co-ordinated and coherent policies that support the development, activation, and effective use of skills. Countries that are the most successful in mobilising the skills potential of their people share a number of features: they provide high- quality opportunities to learn throughout life, both in and outside school and the workplace; they develop education and training programmes that are relevant to students and the labour market; they create incentives for, and eliminate disincentives to, supplying skills in the labour market; they recognise and make maximal use of available skills in workplaces; they seek to anticipate future skills needs and they make learning and labour market information easy to locate and use. This diagnostic report identifies 9 skills challenges for Peru based on analysis of OECD, international organisations and national data, as well as input received from the national government and a wide range of stakeholders, including individuals, employers, employer associations, trade unions and education providers. As the first non-member country to embark upon a National Skills Strategy country project with the OECD, Peru has demonstrated its commitment to leveraging international comparative data and good practice to tackle its own skills challenges. Equally, Peru’s experience will be of great interest to many other countries around the world. We hope that this report will help in paving Peru’s road to sustainable growth and prosperity by stimulating a national conversation on Peru’s skills challenges, assets and aspirations. Success will ultimately depend on all actors working together to achieve a common goal. The OECD stands ready to contribute to Peru’s ongoing efforts in designing and implementing better skills policies for better jobs and better lives. Andreas Schleicher Director for the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on Education Policy OECD SKILLS STRATEGY DIAGNOSTIC REPORT: PERU OECD © 2016 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report is part of a series of country projects within the OECD programme of work on “Building effective national strategies”. The OECD is grateful to the Peruvian inter-ministerial project team, chaired by Astrid Sánchez from the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion, and co-chaired by Rommy Urbano, from the Ministry of Education and José La Rosa from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The OECD is also grateful to Alberto Aquino, for co-ordinating

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