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Technical assistance for the extension of social protection coverage
- Start activities
- 12-02-2018
- End activities
- 1-12-2018
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional Strengthening
- Code
- 2017-30
- Description
- The primary outcome of the action has been to position the Directorate for Social Security of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru in the policy area of extending social protection to atypical workers. The report prepared by the experts from France and Spain was meant to constitute a piece of comparative knowledge to feed the institutional debate. The peer-to-peer dialogue allowed to broaden the horizon of the debate and reflection on the state of social protection of independent workers and workers of small and medium enterprises in Peru, but also to formulate a policy report which puts forward reasonable tools and approaches for advancing social protection in the area of atypical work.
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Information and communication technology tools development
- Start activities
- Jul-18
- End activities
- 28/02/2019
- Partner Institution
- National Employment Office [Office national de l'emploi]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional Strengthening
- Code
- 2017-31
- Description
- The request of the Gabonese National Center for the Promotion of Employment (ONE) was meant to mobilize peer support in view of the validation and deployment of a new digital tool designed to improve the labour intermediation services provided to Gabonese users. Only a single activity was implemented, bringing French experts to Gabon to conduct an audit of the information system and the web tools in place at ONE.
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Strategic goals according to the Multidimensional Poverty Index in Panama
- Start activities
- Feb-18
- End activities
- 31/05/2019
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Social Development [Ministerio de Desarrollo Social]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
- Code
- 2017-32
- Description
- The action has supported the Ministry of Social Development of Panama to define the goals of poverty-reduction strategies in connection with the Multidimensional Poverty Index. Together with expert teams from France, Italy, Portugal, and Colombia, the Partner increase its staff’s understanding of multidimensional measurements and their relationship with the design of public policies. Furthermore, the methodology of microsimulation of multidimensional poverty goals was presented and the steps for its implementation in the STATA software were identified. Finally, a systematic review of the existing policy instruments for reducing poverty has been conducted, which helped to determine how they might be adapted in view to tackle multi-dimensional poverty. Particular attention was dedicated to the “Plan Cero Pobreza” and the development of multidimensional poverty-related indicators.
Labour and Employment
Labour and Employment: Emerging topics in the SOCIEUX+ agenda It has now been over one year since SOCIEUX+ began providing technical assistance in the area of labour and employment. After its inclusion in the Facility, many partner countries expressed interest in the...-
Capacity building for better employment services, strategy and planning for youth employment
- Start activities
- Sep-18
- End activities
- 24/01/2020
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour, Public Administration and Social Affairs (MTFPAS)
- Type of Assistance
- Code
- 2017-34
- Description
- The Agence Nationale pour l'emploi (ANPE) of Benin required SOCIEUX+ technical support to set up a ‘training and skills’ development plan to empower its intermediation services in 12 local agencies. The first mission was dedicated to a systemic and organizational diagnosis of the ANPE. The second activity was oriented to the definition and elaboration of a training plan for employment counsellors dealing with jobseekers, companies, and the self-employed, and for the heads of local agencies. The third activity focused on the services delivered by counsellors to jobseekers, namely, how to conduct a counselling interview). Finally, experts delivered a remote training workshop intended to give counsellors the right tools to strengthen their relationships with private firms and to meet employers' recruitment needs. All experts mobilized came from public entities, notably public employment services, of Belgium and France.
