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1. Each Member shall adopt and develop comprehensive and coordinated policies and programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training, closely linked with employment, in particular through public employment services.
2. These policies and programmes shall take due account of -
(a) employment needs, opportunities and problems, both regional and national;
(b) the stage and level of economic, social and cultural development; and
(c) the mutual relationships between human resources development and other economic, social and cultural objectives.
3. The policies and programmes shall be pursued by methods that are appropriate to national conditions.
4. The policies and programmes shall be designed to improve the ability of the individual to understand and, individually or collectively, to influence the working and social environment.
5. The policies and programmes shall encourage and enable all persons, on an equal basis and without any discrimination whatsoever, to develop and use their capabilities for work in their own best interests and in accordance with their own aspirations, account being taken of the needs of society.