Skills for an Inclusive Future members must be aligned with the long-term thematic focus of the network on inclusive skills development on digital transformation, future of work, and green economy. Network initiatives will also contribute to the socio-economic recovery for COVID-19 pandemic. 

S4IF will seek for initiatives that have innovative methods or delivery models in place for skills generation and employment. The innovative approach should contribute to better skills delivery, employability of the target group, and inclusion of disadvantaged groups in the economy with an aim of delivering the trainings to the last mile.

Initiatives must have been developed to include vulnerable and under-served groups especially women, youth, migrant and displaced people, hard to reach populations and people with disabilities.

Members must demonstrate interest in forging partnerships, or already existing public and private partners. The initiatives must be multi-stakeholder either led by the private sector or in the form of a public-private partnership.

Skills for an Inclusive Future members must be able to generate measurable results and able to share progress against their commitment. The development impact should be positive, explicit, specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely in terms of better skills delivery and employability on the side of the target group and inclusion of the disadvantaged groups in the economy. In your communication and application, you may show your impact with the following indicators:

• Number of people trained - The selected initiative must have contributed to skills acquisition of disadvantaged groups
• Number of women trained
• Number of young people trained
• Number of migrant or displaced people trained
• Number of people with disabilites trained

• Number of people placed* - Higher placement ratio for successful graduates and trainees are preferred
• Number of women placed
• Number of young people placed
• Number of migrant or displaced people placed
• Number of people with disabilities placed
• Number of years in operation - The company must be in operation for at least 3 years while the initiative is planned to be in place for the long term minimum 2-3 years
• Number and size of public and private partners – Initiatives that bring together private sector actors, training institutes, civil society, policy and research institutions, resource partners, government institutions, national skills organizations, and other skills development network, etc. for more effective skills delivery have higher potential for generating knowledge

* Placement can cover placement to a job, placement to entrepreneurship track via launching own business or enrolment to a higher level training