Occupational Competency: Skills Assessment In The Region

Aiming to ensure national competency skills standard among the regional countries, a consultation workshop on review aKMSTK find out more. 

The workshop aimed to understand the benefits of Mutual Recognition of Skills (MRS) and its process, structure and format of ILO’s Regional Model Comparison and recognition (RMCS) as well as to provide input to the benchmarking exercises and validate the outcomes.  

This workshop could be a help in turning out more skill labour in order to compete in ASEAN Economic Community.   

Principal , NSSA ,Khin Mar Aye : This is one of the projects of the ASEAN with the assist of the ILO mutual recognition of skills workshop among the region. At present, most of the migrant workers are no certificate and they are as a un-skills general worker. We should need our labor standard after appearing ASEAN Economic Community, there will be free flow of labor, at that time in the regional countries can flow the labors and we need to promote our labor skill standard. 

ILO has been providing technical assistance to Myanmar in order to have mutual recognition of skills in CLMV countries, Philippine and Thailand, said the ILO expert.  

Consultant , Mutual Recognition of Skills (ILO) , Irene Isaac: “..we hope with also tighten up  some of the component it ever that will be and … we will see what are further improvement can be done to be able to show that Myanmar competency standard is competitive with the standard of the ASEAN regions.”

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population has formed National Skill Standard Authority in 2007, and about 800 skillful assessment certificates have been issued so far. 

Factory Manager , Min Dhamma Company LTD. , Than Htay : Our labor skills are very skillful but we need to do them to give recognize skills standard certificate. But, we have no standard recognizing certificate in order to work in regional level. The government should provide more labor skill standard training in order to catch up not only in regional but also internationally. 

The stakeholders including representatives from relevant ministries, and government organizations, employer and worker associations, as well as training schools and centers attended in this two-day workshop.

 

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