activities

Activities

countries

countries

days of technical cooperation

days of technical cooperation

List of countries

SOCIEUX+ work

Labour & Employment

We support countries in their efforts to design and implement labour market strategies and policies, to support institutional, organizational and legal reforms, to improve employment services and vocational training facilities, as well as, to encourage decent and inclusive employment opportunities, including:

  • Labour dimension: Legal framework, Occupational safety and Health and working conditions, institutional reforms and practices, active labour market policies, formalization of informal employment, eradication of child labour,  decent work, due diligence, social relationships, social dialogue.
  • Employment dimension: public employment services, entrepreneurship, jobs creation, vocational guidance and training, LMI and analysis systems, matching labour demand and labour supply, green jobs, employability of vulnerable groups, youth employment, workers with disabilities, NEETs, gender equity, soft and hard skills development, digitalization of services.

Social Protection

We help partner countries to achieve more equitable, inclusive, efficient and sustainable social protection systems, including:

  • Social insurance: Old age benefits, pensions, social and health insurance, insurance against occupational accidents and diseases, unemployment benefits, maternity, family and household benefits, strengthen contributory schemes at country level, extension of coverage incl. through voluntary contributions for informal workers and other uncovered groups, increasing contributions/sustainable financing reforms.
  • Social assistance: Guaranteed income schemes, non-contributory benefits/transfers, access to basic and other social services, social protection for informal workers and other vulnerable groups, child grants, social pensions, disability grants and disability-inclusive social protection, social protection across the humanitarian-development nexus, sustainable financing, etc.