The objective of the proposed project is to promote the improvement of unemployment protection and national labour training systems in three Latin American and one Asian countries. The proposed project counts on involving all relevant stakeholders in the national labour market policy debate, including labour unions, employers' representatives, representatives of the self-employed, relevant NGOs (especially in the field of labour training), think tanks, as well as national policy makers at different levels. Stakeholders will be brought together in national working groups to develop and discuss policy proposals and their implications, receiving support and backstopping from national and regional consultants, as well as staff from the regional commissions (ECLAC or ESCAP). During an international seminar, policy makers at the decision making level will benefit from discussions with their homologues from the other project countries, thus allowing for intra- and inter-regional comparative analysis and southsouth cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean and the Asia and the Pacific region, with the goal of designing improved policies for unemployment protection and national labour training systems.