• Labour & Employment Policies

      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

      Western Africa Gabon
      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
      Description
      The Pôle National de Promotion de l'Emploi (PNPE) in Gabon aimed to enhance its services for job seekers and create youth contracts with employers. SOCIEUX+ mobilized experts from France and Sweden to support this goal. The action focused on defining a core service offer and strengthening the individual capacities of employment counsellors. The new service offer is designed for uniform deployment across the country. The experts also helped in rethinking the internal organization, uniformizing practices, and identifying necessary IT system improvements to support the new service offer. The action has laid a strong foundation for improving employment services in Gabon, aligning with national development strategies and international best practices.
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    • Labour & Employment Policies

        Building capacity in the FMLE to increase employers’ awareness, understanding and engagement to their labour intermediation services

        Western Africa Nigeria
        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.
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      • Labour & Employment Policies

          Promote employment opportunities for persons with disabilities through a gender equity approach

          Central America Panama
          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.
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        • Labour & Employment Policies

          Strengthening inter-institutional coordination for the implementation of a National System of Employment Guidance Services

          South America Uruguay
          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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        • Labour & Employment Policies

          Capacity building for MLSW in the field of satefy and health at work for coordinators in Montenegro

          Western Balkans Montenegro
          Start activities
          05-02-2024
          End activities
          14-06-2024
          Partner Institution
          Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare
          Type of Assistance
          Organisational capacity building
          Code
          2023-36
          Description
          In light of Montenegro's recent adoption of the Strategy for the Improvement of Occupational Safety and Health 2022-2027 (with its 22/23 Implementation Action Plan) to align its national legislation with the EU acquis, and in view of the challenges faced by the construction industry in terms of injuries at work, the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (MLSW) requested support from SOCIEUX+ to improve the capacity of OSH coordinators to prevent accidents at construction sites. Specifically, the action successfully empowered the staff of the OSH Directorate of the MLSW to conduct training sessions for OSH coordinators (both design phase coordinators and construction phase coordinators), with the sharing of [EU and regional] expertise from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Spain, Latvia, Serbia and North Macedonia.
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