The aim of TVET is to develop a skilled workforce and, if this objective is achieved, this will in turn enhance the public perception of TVET so that it is no longer seen as a second-rate source of education. Skills recognition is a mechanism for facilitating the incorporation of informal and non-formal modalities because it gives credit for learning gained through any number of pathways. Skills recognition can also provide a pathway into formal programmes and can support the mobility of the workforce across the region if mutual recognition systems are in place in the various countries.