Collaborative workforce innovation

A practice guide for developing a Foundational Capabilities Pathway built on lessons from the AgFutures initiative.

At a glance

Collaborative workforce innovation: a practice guide for developing a Foundational Capabilities Pathway built on lessons from the AgFutures initiative outlines an approach to skilled workforce development through the Foundational Capabilities Pathway (FCP). The FCP is a model and a practice approach for the collaborative design and delivery of an entry-level employment-based training pathway that gives jobseekers a set of core technical skills they need to enter an industry.

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The model grounds the design and delivery of this pathway within a specific place/region and aligns it with the immediate and future needs of local young people and employers. The practice approach enables this by:

• accounting for local conditions that shape workforce entry

• recognising the social and economic contexts of young people in the region

• bringing together stakeholders with complementary expertise in the systems and structures that impact local workforce development needs and opportunities

• enabling collaborative and adaptive co-design and co-delivery that leverages local resources and expertise and responds to challenges and opportunities as they arise.

This practice guide was developed using insights from an FCP demonstration project – the AgFutures initiative – which tested the application of the model and practice approach in the agricultural sector in Victoria’s Barwon South West region from 2022–25. Insights from testing the FCP model through the AgFutures initiative are used throughout this practice guide as examples of the model in action.