Upskilling Initiative

The IPEF Upskilling Initiative, which was announced in September 2022, is one example of the many economic benefits which will be brought through IPEF. The upskilling initiative was announced by Secretary Raimondo and Ambassador Tai with the goal of providing digital skills for primarily women and girls in developing countries in the Indo-Pacific. Specifically, fourteen U.S. companies will each provide 500,000 or more upskilling opportunities that use digital tools for women and girls in IPEF emerging economies and middle-income partners by 2032, bringing 7 million or more training and education opportunities over the next decade. To implement the Initiative, the Department of Commerce is partnering with The Asia Foundation. 

⇒ Read the fact sheet for the IPEF Upskilling Initiative.

⇒ Read the press release on the Upskilling Initiative launch.

IPEF Public Private Partnership

Ahead of the IPEF Leaders meeting in San Francisco in November 2023, the United States Department of Commerce entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Prosperity, a public-private partnership formed by a coalition of international private and nonprofit sector leaders. This public-private partnership will support the Department’s IPEF objectives by working to mobilize engagement and investment from the private and nonprofit sectors to strengthen Indo-Pacific supply chains, promote environmental sustainability, expand upskilling for workers, and grow economic opportunity in IPEF Partner economies.

For more information, visit Indo-Pacific Partnership for Prosperity