Skills Mobility Partnerships: Towards a global approach to skills development and labour mobility

Skills Mobility Partnerships (SMPs) are typically bilateral or multilateral agreements concluded between States. Although they may vary in form, modality and level of stakeholder involvement, they all place skills development at the heart of their efforts.

All SMPs possess the following five components:

• formalized State cooperation
• multi-stakeholder involvement
• training
• skills recognition,
• migration/mobility