• 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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        • Social Protection

            Financial and policy advice on the establishment of the Unemployment Fund

            Southern Africa Namibia
            Start activities
            27-03-2023
            End activities
            13-08-2023
            Partner Institution
            Social Security Commission (SSC)
            Type of Assistance
            Legislative & regulatory framework development, Sectoral planning & budgeting, Financial management (incl. budgeting)
            Code
            2022-36
            Description
            The Social Security Commission of Namibia aims to enlarge its offer of social security schemes to encompass unemployment benefits. The contribution requested to SOCIEUX+ was mainly on exploring policy and organizational possibilities according to the context; to this purpose, SOCIEUX+ mobilized experts from France, Lithuania, Romania, and Spain. They have first been looking into the recent COVID-related stimulus package to protect laid-off workers and explore possibilities to integrate those measures into a structural instrument. Experts then looked at options for financing such a scheme, and how it would be governed and administered by the Social Security Commission. Such technical background will prove useful in the event Namibia will decide to move forward with the introduction of unemployed benefits.
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          • Social Protection

              Technical and institutional appraisal for the establishment of a unified registry for social protection in Lebanon

              Middle East and Gulf Countries Lebanon
              Start activities
              06-03-2023
              End activities
              15-10-2023
              Partner Institution
              Ministry of Social Affairs
              Type of Assistance
              Information management systems
              Code
              2023-02
              Description
              The Ministry of Social Affairs of Lebanon asked SOCIEUX+ support in the establishment of a unified registry for social protection (USRP), according to the National Social Protection Strategy. The goal is to have available a comprehensive data platform of beneficiary households of the existing social assistance benefits and schemes. In fact, today Lebanon’s economic crisis translates into persisting hardship for the poorest and impoverishment of the medium class; in such a situation, social transfers and basic services are key to secure essential livelihood and ultimately social stability. As those are massively funded by international donors, a national URSP would allow the Lebanese Government to steer social assistance delivery based on comprehensive data and IMS infrastructure. In this context, the planned EU support will be key to provide the necessary technical expertise to set up a functional and technological solution for setting up the URSP. The present Action – and the mobilized Spanish and French expertise - helped to prepare the terms of reference for the selection of the consultancy that will be in charge of ERSP’s development. The consultancy was actually selected, and the project started beginning 2024.
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