A practice guide 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.

The guide uses 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. 

• Chapter 1 – explains what an FCP is and describes the problems they respond to. It then provides a high-level summary of the AgFutures initiative as an example of the FCP mode.
• Chapter 2 – provides guidance on ways to establish the systems and structures required to successfully use the FCP model to co-design and test an entry-level pathway.
• Chapter 3 – details the co-design process.  It provides short examples and lessons from the co-design of the AgFutures pilot.
• Chapter 4 – outlines how to test the co-designed pathway throughout delivery.
• Chapter 5 – discusses how an FCP concludes.