Green Employment and Green Skills for Emerging and Existing Jobs Training

Status: Ongoing programme

Format: Three-Day Instructor-Led Workshop

Delivery mode: Face-to-face or live online, instructor-led training
Duration: Three days
Language: Arabic or English, as required
Target countries: All Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries
Delivery locations: Jordan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and other MENA countries, subject to agreement

Course Overview

This programme prepares jobseekers and existing workers to understand how the transition to a green economy is changing occupations, tasks, and employer expectations. It distinguishes new green occupations from the greening of existing jobs and connects environmental responsibility with employability, decent work, productivity, and resilient livelihoods.

Participants identify the green skills required in their target sectors, assess their own strengths and gaps, and prepare practical development plans. The content can be adapted to national priorities, occupations, sectors, and the needs of women, youth, refugees, persons with disabilities, and other groups facing labour-market barriers.

Recommended for:

The programme is recommended for:

• Jobseekers, graduates, and workers seeking career progression
• Youth, women, refugees, returnees, and host-community livelihood programmes
• TVET institutions, universities, and career-guidance services
• Employment, apprenticeship, and work-based learning programmes
• Employers, HR teams, business associations, and trade unions
• Government, donor, and NGO workforce-development programmes

Training Objective

The objective is to help participants understand green employment trends, recognize how occupations are changing, and build transferable and technical green skills that improve their readiness for emerging and existing jobs.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be better able to:

• Explain green employment, green jobs, green occupations, and the greening of existing jobs
• Identify environmental and labour-market drivers changing work
• Recognize green skills required across different sectors and occupations
• Assess personal skills, experience, and priority development gaps
• Translate environmental responsibility into credible employability evidence
• Identify training, work-based learning, and career pathways
• Demonstrate green workplace behaviours valued by employers
• Prepare an individual or organizational green-skills action plan

Main Training Topics

Day One: Green Employment and Changing Skills Demand

• The green economy and its implications for employment and livelihoods
• Green jobs, green occupations, and green tasks within conventional jobs
• Sector trends and examples from the MENA region
• Core environmental, technical, digital, and transferable green skills
• Decent work, inclusion, and a just transition
• Employer expectations and evidence of green competence
• Personal green-skills self-assessment

Day Two: Career Pathways and Employability Practice

• Mapping target occupations and green career pathways
• Identifying skills gaps and learning priorities
• Building green experience through projects and work-based learning
• Presenting green skills in CVs, interviews, and workplace discussions

Day Three: Workplace Problem Solving and Skills Action Planning

• Green problem solving, teamwork, and workplace responsibility
• Barriers affecting women, youth, and vulnerable groups
• Preparing an individual or programme-level green-skills action plan

Training Methodology

The programme uses a participatory, practical, and adult-learning approach. The methodology includes:

• Interactive presentations and labour-market examples
• Occupation and task-mapping exercises
• Green-skills self-assessment
• Group discussions and workplace scenarios
• Career-pathway mapping
• Individual and team action planning
• Pre- and post-training assessments

The content can be adapted to participants' occupations, literacy levels, target sectors, project activities, country context, and organizational priorities.

Workshop Outputs

Participants will receive:

• Three days of instructor-led training
• Green-employment and green-skills learning materials
• Personal green-skills self-assessment
• Career or skills-development action plan
• Certificate of participation, subject to agreement

The contracting organization may also receive:

• Attendance and assessment results
• Summary of identified skills gaps
• Workshop report
• Recommendations for follow-up training or employment support

Group Size and Fee Information

Recommended group size: 15 to 25 participants.

Fees are provided upon request and depend on delivery location, duration, language, customization, venue, travel, participant numbers, and the number of workshops requested.

Organizational Bookings, Customization and Partnerships

Organizations interested in purchasing or customizing this programme should submit an enquiry outlining their requirements. Organizations seeking to become authorized SRD partners to market and deliver the programme in their country should also provide a brief organizational profile, examples of relevant environmental, green-employment, green-skills, or green-economy training assignments, and selected client references. Suitable applicants will be invited to an introductory meeting to discuss the cooperation model, responsibilities, commercial arrangements, quality standards, and next steps toward signing a partnership agreement.

How to Register or Enquire

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