The Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SWDA) drives lifelong learning and workforce development to enable Singaporeans to take charge of their careers, learn for life, access good jobs, and grow in fulfilling careers. We enable employers to build a skilled, future-ready workforce, design quality jobs, and adopt skills recognition practices. Together with our partners, we build a trusted, high-quality, industry-relevant, and innovative ecosystem that meets the evolving workforce needs of both businesses and workers. For more information, please visit www.swda.gov.sg.



Our Vision and Mission


Vision


A Singapore with opportunities to learn and grow in fulfilling careers.



Mission


We enable Singaporeans to take charge of their careers, learn for life and access good jobs. 


We enable employers to design good jobs and develop a skilled workforce. 

Corporate Governance

The Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SWDA) is committed to high standards of corporate governance. The SWDA Board and Management have established a framework to ensure strict adherence to good corporate governance practices.


View the full list of SWDA Board members.



The Board is responsible for the direction and general administration of the affairs and business of SWDA.


The Board oversees the work and performance of SWDA in delivering on its mandate. It monitors SWDA’s organisational performance and achievement of strategic goals and objectives, while evaluating, approving and monitoring SWDA’s plans and budgets.

Through its committees focusing on audit and risk, finance, and human resource, the Board ensures governance oversight.

Audit and Risk Committee

The Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) ensures SWDA maintains a robust and effective system of internal controls to ensure sound governance, accountability, and the proper stewardship of public resources, including the integrity of financial reporting. The Committee oversees the internal audit function, endorses the annual financial statements, and reviews the adequacy and effectiveness of SWDA’s enterprise risk management framework.

Finance Committee

The Finance Committee (FC) provides guidance on budgeting, funding principles and key financial policies such as internal approval thresholds and delegation of authorities. It reviews the SWDA’s annual budget allocation and approves funding proposals that are within the budgetary values specified by the Board.

Human Resources Committee

The Human Resources Committee (HRC) approves SWDA's staff remuneration policies and frameworks to ensure they remain progressive, robust and aligned with organisational objectives as well as public sector guidelines.

Risk Management Practices and Internal Controls

SWDA submits an annual report after the end of each financial year to the Minister for Manpower. SWDA's full-year financial results are reported to the SWDA Board and included in SWDA’s Annual Reports, which are published on SWDA's corporate website.

For our Annual Reports*, please visit this page.
*Reports prior to 2026 reflect WSG and SSG as separate statutory boards, prior to their merger and the formation of SWDA. 
SWDA’s internal control system ensures that assets and resources are safeguarded, and that the risk management, control measures and procedures are adequate and effective. It also ensures compliance with established policies and regulations, proper maintenance of accounting records and reliability of the financial statements.

The risk items and mitigation measures are monitored regularly by the SWDA Management and reported to the Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) and the SWDA Board. The SWDA Management is responsible for reviewing and monitoring the effectiveness of internal controls to safeguard SWDA’s interests, and will evaluate the need to implement other internal control policies from time to time, to ensure compliance with all regulatory and statutory standards.
The Internal Audit Division (IAD) is an independent function that reports directly to the ARC and administratively to SWDA’s Chief Executive. It provides reasonable assurance to the ARC and SWDA Management by evaluating the reliability, adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls, risk management and governance processes, as well as compliance with established policies, procedures and regulatory requirements. It adopts a risk-based approach as its key audit assurance practice, and the results of audits and recommendations for control enhancements are promptly communicated to SWDA Management.
All SWDA staff must adhere to high standards of professional integrity and personal conduct.  They are to avoid placing themselves in matters where a conflict of interest may arise and are to declare these types of situations to their supervisor. SWDA staff are also subject to provisions of the Official Secrets Act.

To reinforce SWDA's commitment to a culture of integrity and transparency within the organisation, SWDA has in place a whistleblowing policy and reporting mechanism to facilitate the reporting of fraud and wrongdoing of staff (see section on Whistleblowing).