• Labour & Employment Policies

    Mapping and improvement of VET services providers in Azerbaijan

    Eastern Europe Azerbaijan
    Start activities
    20-06-2022
    End activities
    16-12-2022
    Partner Institution
    State Employment Agency (Ministry of Labour and Social Protection)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-08
    Description
    The State Employment Agency (under the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection) is committed to improving its services to the unemployed and job-seeking persons in their reintegration into the labour market, which includes its Vocational Training and Education (VET) services. SOCIEUX+ support was requested to map and assess the existing VET providers, and provide a benchmark of EU practices as well as roadmap for digitalizing VET. Swedish, French and Spanish expertise provided the SEA staff with practical solutions to increase capacities of VET providers and harmonize services.
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  • Labour & Employment Policies

    Which skills development path is needed to stabilize rural population by developing the green economy?

    Pacific and Oceania New Caledonia
    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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  • Comprehensive review of Botswana's Worker's Compensation framework, to develop a national framework reform proposal

    Southern Africa Botswana
    Start activities
    25-04-2022
    End activities
    10-12-2022
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs (MLHA)
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2022-03
    Description
    The Department of OSH at Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs of Botswana was working on exploring whether and how it would be feasible to replace employer liability provisions with a system of workers’ compensation based on social insurance. As a result of the mobilization of public expertise from Germany, Italy, Spain and Slovenia in the framework of SOCIEUX+, the current national legislation and regulatory framework on workers' compensation was assessed against existing best practice and international standards and guidance and recommendations were provided for updating the current national legislation and regulatory framework, based on feasibility, technical capacity and sustainability considerations.
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    Implementation of the Employability Enhancement Project for the development of Soft Skills

    WESTERN AFRICA Senegal
    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
    Mauritania’s Agence National pour la Promotion de l'emploi des Jeunes aimed, through this Action, to introduce soft-skills considerations into its strategies and tools for promoting youth employment. In the Partner’s look, a fair integration of soft-skills into employment portion strategies is indeed key to extend employability to persons that might not have formal strong education or professional background. SOCIEUX+ response has been incremental, starting from building a consensual definition of soft-skills among relevant employment stakeholders; on this agreed basis, a toolkit for employment counsellors to enhance job-seekers’ employability based on the development, or the valorization, of (existing) soft-skills. Along French experts, Belgium’s FOREM provided peers’ support, including through remote e-learning of employment promotion agents.
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