Lista de açôes

  • Assessing viability of microfinance for creating opportunities for social protection coverage of atypical workers

    Start activities
    25-02-2019
    End activities
    12-06-2020
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2019-01
    Description
    This technical cooperation action has allowed to deepen the Partner’s understanding of the possibilities (and the difficulties) linked to the promotion of micro-insurance for providing essential coverage to uninsured workers. A specific target population has been indicated by the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion of Peru as main target group: the dockers of the agricultural market of La Vitoria, in the outskirts of Lima. Experts’ teams – from France, Italy and Spain - have met and discussed with the representatives of the dockers and their unions, in order to explore whether the option of a micro-insurance that meet basic-coverage needs with regards to pensions and the risk of running into working-related sickness or accidents, could represent a suitable option for the workers. Experts also met with private micro-finance organizations in order to explore the actual micro-insurance plan that could be proposed to the dockers.
  • Promotion of employment among people living with disabilities (Promoción del empleo para personas con discapacidad)

    Start activities
    24/06/2019
    End activities
    12/06/2020
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion; Directorate for Promotion of Employment for Workers with Disabilities
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2018-23
    Description
    SOCIEUX+ has addressed the needs formulated by the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion of Peru in view of improving labour insertion of persons with disabilities. The action strategy has addressed three dimensions. Firstly, experts from Spain assessed the current Department’s tools and policies aimed at promoting employment among persons with disabilities. Secondly, they provided capacity building for key partner staff, particularly regarding the setup of appropriate communication channels. Finally, experts accompanied the partner’s efforts to reinforce public-private partnerships, namely to involve private firms in strategies aimed at meeting the needs of the target population and to promote their labour insertion.
  • Evaluation and monitoring instruments for public policies and national guidelines on Vocational Training (Capacitación técnica para el diseño de instrumentos de evaluación …)

    Start activities
    23/09/2019
    End activities
    06/12/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2018-09
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion of Peru requested SOCIEUX+ support in view to enhance its capacity to assess the quality and impact of vocational education and training (VET) programmes deployed at the regional level, as the competences, obligations and responsibilities for the design, implementation and evaluation of VET are entirely transferred to the Regions. Mobilized experts from France and Spain have first carried out an inventory and a characterization of the VET existing initiatives. They have thus elaborated a system for monitoring the VET initiatives based on three levels: macro (responding to national priorities and regulations), meso (conceiving a practical role for regional officers to intervene in the deployment of VET), and micro (in relation with private firms and companies supplying employment opportunities).
  • Strengthening of staff capacities of the Miinistry of Vocational Training and Entrepreneurship (Formation du personnel du Ministère de la Jeunesse et de la promotion de l’entreprenariat des jeunes)

    Start activities
    25/02/2019
    End activities
    06/12/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Youth, Vocational Training and Integration [Ministère de la Jeunesse, de la Formation et de l?Insertion Professionnelles]
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2018-24
    Description
    The Ministry of Youth, Vocational Training and Integration of Burkina Faso requested the assistance of SOCIEUX+ for organizational matters and to improve staff capacity, through the setting-up of a capacity building plan aimed at professionalizing the staff of different departments. Experts from Belgium and France progressively addressed the issue in the course of four activities, engaging the partner’s key staff in the elaboration of a training plan that addresses the needs and gaps identified by the partner institution’s staff.
  • Drafting guideline and legal documents for the Regulation and Supervision on Social Security Fund

    Start activities
    21/10/2019
    End activities
    09/06/2020
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Economy and Finances
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2019-26
    Description
    The Action has channeled knowledge to the staff of the Cambodia’s National Social Protection Committee (NSPC ) on the guiding principles inherent to investment policies, regulation and supervision of the social security system. This happened in a phase of passing legislation building the social security system governance in Cambodia, as well as its core rules of functioning. Mobilized experts from Finland and Lithuania accompanied the Partner’s reflection on the role of the NSPC as main regulator and supervisor of the social security system in Cambodia. In that purpose, regulatory texts have been jointly prepared, such as one settling the function of regulation and supervision of social security operator, the code of conduct for staff of the NSCP, the guidelines for policy disclosure, for e-audit and risk management within social security schemes, and investment guidelines. A study-visit to Finland was also implemented in the framework of the Action: the Cambodian delegation has been hosted by the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Pension Alliance, the Finnish Centre of Pensions, the Finance inspection, and the Social Insurance Institution.
  • Labour Standards strengthening

    Start activities
    24/06/2019
    End activities
    28/06/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2019-07
    Description
    Georgia main social Ministry has cooperated with SOCIEUX+ in view to improve labour standards, enhance safety in the labour environment, and to prevent the violation of dignified working conditions. A single activity was implemented by a team of three experts – from Poland, Hungary, and France. Main topics presented during the interventions related to the cost-benefits of applying occupational safety and health measures, what these measures should be about, how the systems of norms should be managed, and the importance of a tripartite dialogue. The action resulted in a transfer of knowledge and gave the partner’s staff the opportunity of a genuine peer-to-peer exchange on matters of its competence.
  • Green job opportunities for the youth (Empleos Verdes: Una oportunidad para los jóvenes)

    Start activities
    22/09/2019
    End activities
    27/09/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Social Security (Ministerio del Trabajo y la Seguridad Social)
    Type of Assistance
    A.02 Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2019-18
    Description
    The request from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MTSS) of Uruguay focused on developing knowledge and skills for the promotion of green jobs for young people, identifying tools and good practices for their incorporation into the policy and organizational arrangements of the MTSS, of local governments, of the related directorates/regional offices and other agencies working at the promotion of green jobs’ opportunities for young people. The SOCIEUX+ intervention was part of the PAGE Uruguay Program, to which the ILO participates. Experts from Belgium and the Netherlands supported the deployment of two distinct workshops on Green employment strategies for young people, sharing experiences mainly of EU countries. The action gave the MTSS the opportunity to advance policy dialogue and create synergies with other ministries (Education and Industry) in view to improve the circular economy and to promote green jobs among the youth, though adapted curricula and vocational training.
  • Development of Occupational Safety and Health in Nigeria

    Start activities
    09/07/2019
    End activities
    04/09/2020
    Partner Institution
    Safety Advocacy and Empowerment Foundation
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2019-13
    Description
    A series of training sessions and a study visit to Germany have addressed the partner’s request to promote a preventative safety and health culture in the workplace. The Safety Advocacy and Empowerment Foundation cooperates with the Lagos State Safety Commission in view to ensure the adequate occupational safety and health preventive and reactive measures are in place in the factories and firms of one of the most industrialized regions in the whole Africa. Training delivered by experts belonging to the German Association of Accident Insurance (DGUV) concerned principles of prevention, assessing risks in the workplace, the ‘Vision Zero’ concept, and the specific area of road safety.
  • Soft skills policies development: capacitación tecnica para la formulación de politicas públicas en materia de competencias blandas

    Start activities
    02/09/2019
    End activities
    29/05/2020
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
    Type of Assistance
    Code
    2018-08
    Description
    The General Directorate of Vocational Training of the Ministry of Labour provides training in Basic and Transversal Skills (renamed employability skills) to boost the employability of young people. Experts from Spain have accompanied the partner in mapping existing capacities and actors involved in providing employability skills training and have formulated a strategy that addresses possible gaps and improves public training provision aimed at valuing soft skills as a potential for employability of the youth and, more generally, of persons with limited educational attainments.
  • Analysis of the pension legislative framework and strategic guidance

    Start activities
    16/08/2016
    End activities
    28/03/2017
    Partner Institution
    Gency for Social Insurance and Pensions (ASIP)
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2016-04
    Description
    An assessment report of the existing pension legal framework has been elaborated by experts from Bulgaria and Latvia identifying gaps, risks and challenges, and formulating specific mitigation strategies and measures. The experts also prepared a compendium of requirements for the implementation of the legal framework, taking into account the administrative functions needed to operationalize the system. Following this, experts from Latvia and Lithuania produced a functional assessment and reviewed the business processes and workflows of the Agency for Social Insurance and Pensions (ASIP) of Tajikistan in view of their adequacy in terms of human and material resources, technical competencies and tools, corporate organization and workflows. In particular, experts reviewed the current methodologies, formulas and processes used by ASIP for the calculation of pension benefits.