Training Employment Services Providers on How to Facilitate the Recognition of Skills of Migrant Workers – Facilitator’s Notes (Second Edition)

This comprehensive facilitator’s guide provides an updated (2020) training package for employment services providers (ESPs) supporting migrant workers and refugees in skills recognition and labour market integration. It outlines key concepts—including definitions of migrant workers, refugees, migration systems, and recognition of prior learning (RPL)—and offers a structured 4-session curriculum covering 11 training hours. The resource details step-by-step RPL facilitation (awareness-raising, preparation of evidence portfolios, assessment modalities, gap-filling, and recognition of formal qualifications). It includes case examples from ECOWAS, practical tools (self-assessment forms, competence cards, FAQs, role-play activities), and guidance on other labour-market services such as job search support, entrepreneurship, pre-departure training and reintegration services.