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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.