Açôes em Livelihoods
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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.
Capacity building for East and Central African social security agencies
- Start activities
- sep-17
- End activities
- nov-17
- Partner Institution
- East and Central Africa Social Security Association
- Type of Assistance
- Training
- Code
- 2017-05
- Description
- The action aimed to strengthen the capacity of the East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) to design and conduct training in favor of its member organizations The three activities’ deliverables are similar and consist in the materials presented by SOCIEUX-mobilized experts/trainers throughout the three sessions and pertaining to social protection coverage, leadership and ethics, and occupational safety and health. The participating experts came from Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands
Reform of employment services and programs for the establishment of a one-stop-shop for employment promotion
- Start activities
- Sep-17
- End activities
- Ene-18
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour, Public Administration and Social Affairs [Ministère du Travail, de la Fonction Publique et des Affaires Sociales]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional Strengthening
- Code
- 2017-01
- Description
- The Ministry of Labour, Public Administration and Social Affairs of Benin wanted to address, with the support of SOCIEUX-mobilized public experts, the challenge of successfully promoting decent employment opportunities among the youth. The French experts mainly provided an assessment of the current policy framework for youth employment promotion, as well as specific recommendations, mostly aimed to operate a reorganization of the Fonds National d’Action Sociale (FNAS) and strengthen the capacity of its staff. FNAS finally adopted the co-constructed strategy and its staff became more familiar with monitoring and evaluation tools applied to initiatives aiming at youth’s employment promotion.