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Enhancing capacity for public employment services activities: outreach to employers, speed dating, job fairs and supervision of private employment agencies.
- Start activities
- 10/05/2021
- End activities
- 11/11/2022
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational management (structures & functions)
- Code
- 2019-31
- Description
- This action built on previous technical support provided by the ILO Caribbean to the Ministry of Labour of Suriname, notably on building the capacities of staff to enhance the outreach to employers. The action delivered technical support in two steps. First, the actual integration of the Public Employment Service network into the policy framework targeting improved labour market intermediation was assessed by Belgian and Dutch experts. Then, experts from Belgium and France organized and delivered training to the staff of the Ministry of Labour and of local PES addressing the most prominent capacity and organizational needs (relating to outreach and communication with employers and job-seekers) as to improve the provision of support services tailored to employers’ needs.
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Strengthening inter-institutional coordination for the implementation of a National System of Employment Guidance Services
- Start activities
- 22-05-2023
- End activities
- 06-12-2023
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Social Security [Ministerio del Trabajo y la Seguridad Social]
- Type of Assistance
- Organisation/business strategy & planning
- Code
- 2023-11
- Description
- Action 2023-11 was implemented from May to November 2023. The first activity consisted in conducting an assessment of the national ecosystem of career guidance services (definition, actors, services, governance, management, etc.) in order to identify challenges and set priorities. Subsequently, the second activity focused on the organisation of an inter-institutional working seminar with the objective of gathering the different experiences at national and international level and generating working groups on career guidance services. Finally, the third activity ,initially planned to support the drafting of a proposal for an inter-institutional Agreement on the National System of Employment Guidance Services, was extended to include labour intermediation services in the same framework collaboration agreement, with the aim of extending its scope towards the creation of a "National Network of Employment Services".
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Development of Strategic Plan for the Employment Service Agency of the Republic of North Macedonia
- Start activities
- 17-07-2023
- End activities
- 09-10-2023
- Partner Institution
- Employment Service Agency
- Type of Assistance
- Organisation/business strategy & planning
- Code
- 2023-22
- Description
- National Employment Service of North Macedonia requested SOCIEUX + support to gain more knowledge on how to effectively implement formalised strategic planning process and elaborate a three-year strategic plan of the institution. Strategic plan was a legal requirement in accordance to the Law on Budgets and it should have been submitted to the Ministry of Finance in several months. Senior expertise was mobilized from Swedish, Polish, and French institutions. Partner institution along with the experts developed strategic plan and officially started its implementation.
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Capacity building of staff of Ogun State Bureau of Job Creation on PES delivery
- Start activities
- 16-01-2023
- End activities
- 16-06-2023
- Partner Institution
- Ogun State Bureau of Job Creation and Youth Empowerment
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2022-29
- Description
- Through collaboration with the Ogun Bureau of Job Creation in Nigeria, this initiative, executed remotely, significantly enhanced the capabilities of the Bureau staff in delivering Public Employment Services (PES). By conducting an organizational capacity assessment, French PES experts identified areas where job counselors required additional training. Subsequently, Spanish and Slovenian experts developed tailored training modules utilizing the SOCIEUX+ e-learning platform. These modules concentrated on essential aspects such as managing a PES service, fostering employer relationships and partnerships, and effectively communicating the services provided by the bureau to the public.
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Establishment of Thika model Job Centres to act as a one-stop-shop for all employment services for youth
- Start activities
- 17-10-2022
- End activities
- 18-08-2023
- Partner Institution
- National Employment Authority
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational management (structures & functions), Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2022-19
- Description
- To better implement the national policies on youth employment, the National Employment Authority (NEA) solicited SOCIEUX+ cooperation to support them to create a pilot one-stop-shop in employment services for youth in Thika, that could be replicated nation-wide in case of success. This SOCIEUX+ action focused on developing a strategy to set up this pilot one-stop-shop by first realizing a diagnostic of the National Employment Authority (NEA) for the establishment of Thika’s one-stop-shop, focused on youth, then by jointly developing an operational strategic plan for the creation of the pilot one-stop-shop in Thika. The 3rd activity focused on developing a toolkit on youth counselling activities for job counsellors in Thika. The action mobilized Belgian and Swedish expertise.
