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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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Capacity building of the employment administration and its public service
- Start activities
- 15/03/2021
- End activities
- 28-01-2023
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Employment, Youth and Sports [Ministère de l?Emploi, de la Jeunesse et des Sports]
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2021-10
- Description
- An initial activity produced an in-depth assessment of the existing state, capacities and needs in governance and services of the Directorate General for Employment (DGE) of the Ministry of Employment, Youth and Sports of Mauritania. The following two activities aimed to help the partner to enhance managerial arrangements and organizational capacities, particularly by providing managers with the tools apt to make their teams to work better, such as job descriptions and performance-evaluation tools. Finally, experts from France and Belgium helped to develop a system for monitoring and evaluating the performance of teams.
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Implementation of the Employability Enhancement Project for the development of Soft Skills
- Start activities
- 12/07/2021
- End activities
- 31-08-2022
- Partner Institution
- National Agency for the Promotion of Youth Employment
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2021-11
- Description
- The request from the National Agency for the Promotion of Youth Employment (ANPEJ) of Senegal supported by the Employment Direction (DE) of the Ministry of Employment, Vocational Training, and Handicrafts and GIZ Youmatch initiative aimed at promoting the soft skills-based approach in the service offer for young jobseekers. Experts from Belgium and France supported their peers from ANPEJ and DE to agree on a common definition of soft skills, to identify a set of skills most relevant for the labour market in Senegal as well as to elaborate specific tools for job counsellors. A training of trainers through SOCIEUX+ e-learning platform was conducted to enable ANPEJ and DE staff to practically apply the tools and concepts developed during the action.
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Modernization of the management of public administration recruitment in the civil service regime of Costa Rica
- Start activities
- 05/08/2021
- End activities
- 20-08-2022
- Partner Institution
- General Directorate of Civil Service [Dirección General De Servicio Civil] (DGSC)
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2021-12
- Description
- Through this first Action in partnership with the Dirección General De Servicio Civil of Panama, SOCIEUX+ helped the Partner to reform the process of selection of the personnel of public administrations. Public experts from Spain first looked into the processes of recruitment and selection of the public administration staff, for then putting forward an alternative model focusing on knowledge tests. In the framework of the Action, a test of the new model was done through a pilot project, duly assessed at the end of the cooperation with SOCIEUX+. The latter ultimately provided technical ground and proposed specific models to contribute to the selection of civil servants with a knowledge-based, soft-skilled, meritocratic approach.
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Strengthening the institutional capacity of the labour market observatory [Reforçar a capacidade institucional do observatório do mercado de trabalho]
- Start activities
- 01/11/2021
- End activities
- 31-05-2022
- Partner Institution
- Observatory for labour market [Observatório do mercado de trabalho]
- Type of Assistance
- Organisation/business strategy & planning
- Code
- 2021-16
- Description
- The Labour Market Observatory of Cabo Verde requested support on elaboration of its strategic development plan. Experts from France and Italy mobilized for this action supported the Observatory to identify strengths and challenges, better understand the environment and stakeholders involved into labour market research and evolution, find its value added, define a mandate, chose thematic scope of interventions for the next five years and formulate a development strategy. Training activities reinforced the capacities of Observatory’s Technical Unit staff to implement the strategic plan. The action was completed by a seminar where the Strategic development plan was presented to Observatory’s potential partners.
