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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.
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Supporting integration of NEETs into labour market
- Start activities
- 15-06-2022
- End activities
- 15-05-2023
- Partner Institution
- National Agency for Employment
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2021-26
- Description
- The National Employment Agency (ANOFM), the public employment service of Moldova, seeks to provide better and more specialized support to young people who are not in education, training, or employment (NEET), a big and particularly vulnerable group far from labor and often missed by public services, who need a targeted approach and tailor-made accompaniment. As a result of the joint action of SOCIEUX+ and ANOFM first, the assessment was conducted concerning the situation in Moldova and the needs of the ANOFM to reinforce the services provided to this group of users, then some tools were proposed, with a specific focus on coordination mechanisms to ensure global comprehensive accompaniment of beneficiaries, and on operational work of job counsellors via capacity building sessions. At all stages of cooperation, EU good practices were shared by the experts from Belgium, Latvia, France, and Sweden and discussed from the point of view of their relevance for Moldova context.
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Which skills development path is needed to stabilize rural population by developing the green economy?
- Start activities
- 18/04/2022
- End activities
- 09-12-2022
- Partner Institution
- Department of Continuing Professional Training (DFPC)
- Type of Assistance
- Policy development
- Code
- 2021-17
- Description
- This ambitious action, in partnership with the Department of Continuing Professional Training of the government of New Caledonia, is at the crossroads between employment of young and vulnerable persons, limiting rural exodus, climate resilience and food self-sufficiency. The goal of this action was to elaborate a need-based strategy to support agroecological value-chains, by encouraging traditional know-how and acquired skills of members of the Kanak communities and leveraging on traineeship opportunities for women and youth. Experts from Belgium and France produced a thorough diagnosis of the governance of the agroecological sector, a mapping of ongoing green economy projects in place, an action plan to promote green jobs, and a skills reference system for young rural workers to have better access to trainings in agroecology.
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Soft skills: a strategic challenge for youth employment - e conference
- Start activities
- 12/03/2021
- End activities
- 30/03/2021
- Partner Institution
- National Agency for the Promotion of Employment [Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi] (ANPE)
- Type of Assistance
- International events (awareness raising)
- Code
- 2020-29
- Description
- The online conference « Les soft skills : un enjeu stratégique pour développer l’employabilité des jeunes » organized by the National Agency for Employment of Togo together with SOCIEUX+ and the YouMatch Global Initiative on innovative employment services for youth funded by German cooperation agency GIZ gathered more than 80 participants from 15 African and EU countries to discuss how soft skills – or life skills and competences that are necessary to enter, to maintain and/or change employment, but that cannot be confirmed by formal working experience or diplomas (unlike technical skills) – are changing the labour market of the future and how public employment services can take the advantage of this emerging concept to reinforce the employability of vulnerable groups, including young people, rural population of women. Experts from France mobilized by SOCIEUX+ presented their expertise together with their peers from African Countries.
Design of training structure and formalization of a training course for young business creators in Mauritania
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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 la 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.