employment agencies together with education and training institutions and others can help localities move towards a highskills equilibrium collaboratively they need not only to better adapt the supply of skills to the demands of the local economy but also to improve local skills utilisation through providing incentives for employers to invest in new technology helping local enterprises to identify weaknesses in their production processes promoting effective and innovative forms of work organisation facilitating technology transfer and encouraging uptake of training for both managers and werkers the skills development council in pakistan a selfsustained private organisation illustrates this point the council s board consists of four employer members one worker representative and five government officials