Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh has declared that Bangladesh will be a developed country by 2041 and to achieve this goal 73M skilled youth will be needed. To address this vital issue, National Skills Portal (skills.gov.bd) was launched in 2018 by Mr. Mustafa Jabbar, former Honorable Minister of the Ministry of Post, Telecommunication & Information Technology with the vision for the portal to act as a collaboration hub for youth, skills providers and potential employers; to serve as a platform to monitor and mentor countrywide skills development initiatives; help youth enroll in skills development trades; ensure e-Learning of TVET courses and face the challenge if unemployability.
National skills portal (NSP) has developed to solve the problem of the Unavailability of a unique platform for skills and job seekers, at the same time, for Government in skills development and job placement for the unemployed population with upscaling and rescaling program. NSP is also a collaboration hub among youth, industry and skills providers. For data-driven decision making, government use NSP as a one-stop service monitoring platform in skill development to develop future market demands and opportunities through public-private partnerships. NSP is playing the role of matchmaker among youth, employer and training service provider (TSP). Till now, 200k unemployed youths, 1.6k industries and .1k TSP have been enrolled in multiple skill development program through this portal. NSP guides the youth to develop and boost up their career.
NSP is playing as skills ecosystem in Bangladesh. National Skills Development Authority (NSDA) uses NSP as monitoring, nurturing and decision-making platform. All the TSPs and industry skills council found government orders and solutions in NSP for what they should report to NSDA. So, as a whole, all public and private organizations of skill developments are working under a same roof. In parallel, citizens get all skills development and job-related information here.

http://skills.gov.bd/

• Bangladesh

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• People with disabilities
• The unemployed
• The poor
• Migrants
• Youth, Employer, Training Service Provider and Government officials

NSP is already playing as the skills ecosystem in Bangladesh, National Skills Development Authority (NSDA) uses NSP as monitoring, nurturing and decision-making platform. There are 23 Ministries and 28 departments of Bangladesh Government are directly working with skills development and they are bound to take order and give report in every certain period to NSDA.As National Skills Portal is already recognized by NSDA and NSP already started to monitor and generate reports for some these Ministries and Departments of Bangladesh government we hope in between 2021 all 23 Ministries and 28 Departments will be connected with NSP and directly Monitored By NSDA. Besides these NSP is not limited in Government Ministries and Departments. NSP spreads its wings in other private stakeholders such as Skills and Job seeker, Employers and training service provider to achieve its primary goal which is skills for decent employment. Moreover, NSP spreads its name for central connecting hub for connect public private relation among government and private skills development. Furthermore, NSP already begun to integrate all the ad hoc skills development system for data driven policy making and demand driven skill HR creation. Through this feature all the skills and job system will come under the same roof and the seekers (job and skills) will get all the information through NSP.

The common desire and commitment reflected in WSIS Declaration of principles is to build a people-centered, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and refining their quality of life, premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Youth can voice their opinions or directly connected with government officials, employer and others stakeholder to provide their day to day life’s skills development challenges and receive feedback from National Skills Development Authority and other respective stakeholders. Rather than that the project has also focus on different. This project has critical role in information and knowledge production, education and training, and to support the establishment of partnerships, cooperation and networking between other institutions like Bangladesh Industrial and Technical Assistance Center, Department of Social Services etc. So, the initiative is aligned with C3. Access to information and Knowledge, C5. Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs, C6. Enabling environment and C7. ICT Applications: e-employment.