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POWER UP FUTURES
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GSLI

Global Skills, Livelihoods & Leadership Index

The GSLI measures the distance between what economies say they need and what their workforces can actually do — by country, sector and skill family. It is built to be argued with.

Role

The evidence instrument of Skills and Talent Diplomacy

GSLI supplies the shared factual base for recognition agreements, mobility partnerships, talent exchanges, diaspora policy, university–industry partnerships, joint training investment, qualification portability, labour-market cooperation and regional corridors.
Structure

What the Index measures

Skills supply
Training capacity, completion, and capability verified against employer standards.
Skills demand
Employer-reported requirements by sector and occupational family.
Livelihoods
Earnings, formality, transition durability and enterprise participation.
Leadership
Institutional and public-sector delivery capability.
Recognition & mobility
Portability of qualifications and the friction cost of moving.
Readiness
AI and technology exposure against workforce adaptation capacity.
Method

Methodology and limitations

  • The methodology note is published before the first release, not after it.
  • Sample construction, weighting and confidence bounds are disclosed per indicator.
  • Known limitations are stated in the report body, not in an appendix.
  • Country scores are never published without the underlying indicator table.
  • Independent methodological review is invited from partner institutions.
Cadence

Release and revision

  • Annual index release at the Global Week Opening Global Plenary.
  • Mid-year sector briefs between releases.
  • Open data files accompany every release.
  • Dated corrections; superseded editions remain publicly accessible.
Companion

CPLI

The Country Project Leadership Index (CPLI) is the delivery-capability companion to the GSLI, built from NPMTI national maturity assessments and synthesised continentally through APLIS regional forums.

APLIS & NPMTI
Participate

Contribute data or request a country briefing

GSLI data and briefings

National statistical agencies, employers and research institutions can contribute data or request a country briefing ahead of release.

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Four-entity mandate model
Power Up Futures Foundation (PUFF-USA)
Power Up Futures Foundation (PUFF-USA) is the U.S.-incorporated, IRS-recognised Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation providing governance, philanthropy and public-benefit oversight for the ecosystem.
GSTLW
Global convening, partnerships, policy, research and publisher of record; institutional home of Skills and Talent Diplomacy.
APLIS Africa Foundation (NGO)
Continental institutional implementation partner: continental programme ownership, public-sector transformation and regional coordination of APLIS Forums.
NPMTI — National Project Maturity & Transformation Initiative
Country-level execution framework (maturity methodology, government engagement model, assessment and reporting mechanism). Never a separate brand, entity or event.

Fund governance: the Global Skills Endowment Fund is governed under PUFF-USA (public benefit). The Global Skills Enterprise Fund is governed through PCA Group or an appropriately authorised investment vehicle — never through the Secretariat. Accelera 1000 is a platform brand only; contracts issue through approved legal entities. Commercial services are delivered separately through approved ecosystem partners (Paraklete Institute / PCA Group). All references to UN and multilateral participation are aspirational and subject to those institutions' own priorities and approval processes.

GSTLW is the institutional home of Skills and Talent Diplomacy. GSLI supplies the evidence, the GSEF Twin Funds align capital, the Global Week creates the compacts, APLIS coordinates regional implementation, and NPMTI translates cooperation into national project maturity and transformation.