These Rapid Assessment guidelines aim to inform timely and practical action within the constraints of public health and workplace OSH policies. The guidelines focus on three broad types of impact on the labour market, and hence on demand for skills and opportunities for workers, with implications for reskilling and upskilling needs. For each type of impact, there is an immediate component as short term responses to the pandemic affect economic activity.
There is another component over the scale of months to possibly a small number of years as public health strategies respond to a still-active pandemic whose impacts are uneven across the globe, and with flare-ups and retightening of physical distancing measures possible even in countries where it seems to be under control. There will also be a longer-term component as the global economy either recovers from the pandemic or adjusts to live with it as a continuing threat that ebbs and flows. The effects of the pandemic, the resulting challenges and opportunities, and the skills development responses most needed, are likely to vary by country.
Guidelines on Rapid Assessment of reskilling and upskilling needs in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
