• Strengthen the capacity of the PNPE to deliver services to job seekers (especially vulnerable populations), and increase its capacity to develop employment opportunities with companies

    Start activities
    23-10-2023
    End activities
    19-04-2024
    Partner Institution
    National Center for the Promotion of Employment
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development), Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2023-27
  • Building capacity in the FMLE to increase employers’ awareness, understanding and engagement to their labour intermediation services

    Start activities
    22-05-2023
    End activities
    06-11-2023
    Partner Institution
    Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development), Organisation/business strategy & planning
    Code
    2023-06
    Description
    Based on the request by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment (FMLE), this action aimed to strengthen the individual and organisational capacities of the Public Employment Service agencies to increase employers’ awareness, understanding and engagement with their services. To this purpose, experts mobilized by SOCIEUX+ helped to asses gaps and needs and to formulate recommendations on individual capacities and training needs of job centres’ staff to effectively reach, engage and provide services to employers; they also helped to assess to what extent employers are aware of, understand and engage with PES services. As a result, an Employers’ Outreach, Engagement and Communication Strategy, was drafted in cooperation with experts. Finally, the last activity facilitated the design, preparation and deployment of a training of trainers’ (ToT) plan with two workshops. The first week was dedicated to the animation of a working group of FMLE managers aiming at designing and agreeing on services to employers and the second week to the ToT on outreach, engagement and provision of services to employers for a group of PES job counsellors/trainers. Throughout the action, experts from Austria, Lithuania and Sweden were involved.
  • Promote employment opportunities for persons with disabilities through a gender equity approach

    Start activities
    27-03-2023
    End activities
    16-02-2024
    Partner Institution
    National Disability Secretariat [Secretaría Nacional de Discapacidad]
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development, Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2022-35
    Description
    Building on the previous support (Action 2022-21) provided by SOCIEUX+, this action supported the National Disability Secretariat (SENADIS) of Panama to promote the inclusive labour insertion, with a gender equality approach, by elaborating a roadmap for the improvement of the labour intermediation services specifically aimed at promoting the labour insertion of persons with disabilities. Different teams of experts from Spain have contributed to strengthening the skills of actors involved in the labour market integration of persons with disabilities, by delivering training modules. The experts have also framed the acquired knowledge and a compendium of practices into a Guide to support the work of those agents in charge of enabling persons with disabilities to find a decent and accessible employment.
  • 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".