Life skills are behaviors used appropriately and responsibly in the management of personal affairs.

Fadil's trip to Cairo gave him the opportunity to improve his skills in Arabic.

(a) To develop, or improve, strategies to recruit, support and retain workers with key skills

Berlusconi s undisputed survival skills, and the acrobatics of his personal life, have relegated the outside world from the attention of most Italians.

We had to run a control group to make sure that just coming into the laboratory didn't improve your Mandarin skills.

Many areas have policies to encourage woman staff to improve their skills and qualifications or build public houses for woman teachers.

These may include experience, personal characteristics, core competencies, availability, diversity, age, specific skills (e.g. the understanding of particular technologies), international background, and so on.

Some modern martial arts teach the use of nunchaku, as it may help students improve their reflexes, hand control, and other skills.

Through these work projects, Corps Members develop a strong work ethic, strengthen their leadership skills, and learn how to take personal responsibility for their actions.

He s also made some friends through his job waiting tables at a local Indian restaurant, and it s helped improve his Korean language skills.

Policies which improve the knowledge and technical skills of administrators and legislators responsible for sustainable urban development have been cited as being critical.

A strategy designed to improve labour market outcomes for new immigrants, including recognition of skills and abilities of immigrants to Manitoba, is being developed.

Although much remained to be done to improve the situation of rural women, the Government and its partners had been working to improve functional literacy, enterprise development, skills training and microfinance, with the aim of alleviating poverty.

Here, the structures and the accompanying standardization work to ensure that admission to public employment is determined by skills and knowledge, rather than personal or partisan loyalties.

Education, vocational training to develop business skills, on the job training and mentoring are useful options to improve access of young people to decent jobs and to provide a basis for matching skills to the demands of the urban labour market.

2. Stresses that the purpose of enhancing mobility is to improve the effectiveness of the Organization and to foster the skills and capacity of staff

Training activities are conducted in various fields to improve the skills and abilities of young people who leave school and guide them towards decent employment.

As they enter the workforce, their language skills improve, their household income soars, and their children see firsthand a woman in a respected, economically valued role.

Promoting programmes that match skills, training and apprenticeships for urban youth is important to improve their access to decent jobs in local and global labour markets.

The capacity of key State institutions, including those in the areas of finance and law enforcement, continued to improve as personnel acquired new skills and experience.

Investments in employment programs Job Connect links Ontarians, primarily unemployed youth between the ages of 16 to 24, to employment and training opportunities and Literacy and Basic Skills Program helps learners gain the literacy and numeracy skills they need to improve their employment.

1.145 To improve the quality of the Microcredit Community Support Programme, and enhance opportunities for economic inclusion through skills training and increased access to diversified loan products.

However, for small scale distributors to survive by capturing the above opportunities there is a need to develop skills and entrepreneurship so as to improve their competitiveness.

The Procurement Service is working together with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to improve the skills and capacity of the peacekeeping missions in procurement and contract management.

Public private partnerships can be used to improve the delivery of basic services, such as energy and water, facilitate access to larger financing opportunities and enhance skills.

Basic training and preparation for working life, in co operation with local authorities Developing skills in the context of the personal interests of the trainees, such as athletics, music, theatre etc.

Through participant interviews, personal observation, time diaries, and longitudinal studies, Bakke showed how extended spells of unemployment caused workers skills to deteriorate and made it difficult for them to acquire new ones.

OIOS is cognizant that peacekeeping duties require personal attributes such as courage and commitment, interpersonal skills, patience, and the ability to assess and report, all of which are not easy to appraise.

10.24 The Rural Skills Training Programme is a quasi government organization that has been operating since 1992 with support from DFID and the New Zealand Government aimed at promoting rural community development by facilitating the acquisition of skills needed to improve social and economic well being in the village.

Personal data is exactly that personal.

3. Emphasizes that training should not only improve the managerial skills of senior officers but should also serve to update and complement their substantive knowledge on various United Nations core mandates

1.151 The management skills of 791 committee members managing refugee administered community based centres will have been upgraded to improve the efficacy of credit operations thereby promoting self reliance among refugees.

Norway welcomed the Director General designate and trusted that he would seek steadily to improve UNIDO's managerial and financial performance as well as updating the staff's professional expertise and technical skills.

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At the country level, the programme identifies promising entrepreneurs and provides them with training to strengthen their entrepreneurial talents (i.e. based on personal qualities such as the entrepreneurial traits referred to above) and business skills.

Moreover, the ADB s support includes skills development, particularly to foster skills required by the infrastructure sectors, and strengthening skills design and delivery systems.

An educated mother, well equipped with the knowledge of health skills, agricultural skills, accounting skills and many other skills is a woman that will direct the health of herself, her family and the nation.

As in any organization, ongoing training in the latest thinking and techniques is essential to maintain and improve the high quality skills of the staff and various initiatives were undertaken in that regard.

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It asserts life skills are a synthesis many skills are used simultaneously in practice.