Essential Skills and Workplace Literacy Initiative

The Essential Skills and Workplace Literacy (ES&WL) Initiative's goal is to enhance the skill levels of Canadians who are entering-or are already in-the workforce. The Initiative does this by increasing awareness and understanding of Essential Skills, supporting the development of tools and applications, building on existing research, and working with other Government of Canada programs.

Essential Skills are the skills needed for work, learning and life. They provide the foundation for learning all other skills and enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change.

The ES&WL Initiative is composed of four areas of activity:

• Outreach
• Applications
• Synergy
• Research

For background information, follow the links below:

• The Story of the Initiative
• Essential Skills Research Project