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Strengthening of entrepreneurial capacities
- Start activities
- 13-08-2018
- End activities
- 22-08-2019
- Partner Institution
- Public Employment Services [Unidad del Servicio Público de Empleo]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional Strengthening
- Code
- 2017-25
- Description
- The action was articulated in three activities to support to the Colombian Public Employment Service (UAESPE) to provide quality support and services to the employers and entrepreneurs in order to better match labour market demand and labour supply. The mobilized experts came from France and Spain. The first activity resulted in a detailed diagnosis of service delivery and organization. Secondly, a training session for UAESPE’s business managers led to a better understanding of the minimum standards of intermediation services, with particular attention to challenges deriving from the diversity of the profiles of jobseekers. Finally, UAESPE had to establish a communication plan; experts provided guidance on how to create a brand image and how to formulate strong messages for key audiences. Additionally, indicators to measure the impact of media campaigns and other communication initiatives were developed.
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Strengthening innovation, entrepreneurship and formation of informal sector vendors
- Start activities
- 04/02/2018
- End activities
- 12/07/2018
- Partner Institution
- Institute for Social Economy [Instituto para la Economia Social]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional Strengthening
- Code
- 2017-16
- Description
- The Instituto para la Economia Social (IPES) of Bogotá provides care and attention to informal street vendors. This action served the purpose of setting up tools for the design, the management and the follow-up of policies related to training, work and employment of informal street vendors. French experts first assessed IPES’ current programme in favor of street vendors, including orientation counselling, vocational training, training on merchandising. Recurrent problems were identified, and assessment results presented and discussed with the partner and its teams. A set of preliminaries recommendations was formulated. Specific attention was given to evaluate the actions aimed at promoting entrepreneurship among street vendors.
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Data architecture and management
- Start activities
- oct-17
- End activities
- oct-17
- Partner Institution
- General Sub-Directorate for Overcoming Poverty - Social Prosperity agency [Subdirección General para la Superación de la Pobreza - Prosperidad Social]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
- Code
- 2017-15
- Description
- Prosperidad Social of Colombia requested SOCIEUX+ assistance in view of improving the architecture and data management system of the Sub-Directorate-General for the Elimination of Poverty. Experts from France and Spain carried out an initial mapping of the data structure associated with the UNIDOS program, and the data exchange flows between this entity and the rest of functional units. They further prepared a preliminary data model, identifying and characterizing the data relevant to the Sub-Directorate-General based on its use and its origin. Recommendations for System requirements management and Project approval were developed.
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Implementation of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) peer-review recommendation on human capital development
- Start activities
- 06-08-2018
- End activities
- 06-09-2019
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
- Code
- 2017-13
- Description
- This action is part of a series of actions in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru, in the area of labour and employment. In this circumstance, the action focused on ways to enhance competences and employability skills of the national workforce through vocational education and training (VET). French experts first carried out a functional and organizational analysis of the three sectorial committees created to establish occupational profiles in order to reinforce labour matching process. A training workshop then looked into mechanisms for promoting the participation of the productive sector in the definition of training and education policies. Overall, the action contributed to sensitize relevant partner’s teams to the challenges ahead in the implementation of a national qualifications’ framework and the need to reinforce basic and transversal competences through VET.
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Implementation strategies for teleworking
- Start activities
- 01/12/2018
- End activities
- 15/03/2019
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
- Code
- 2017-11
- Description
- This action is part of a series of actions in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru, in the area of labour and employment. In this circumstance, the MTPE aimed to foster the implementation of the teleworking modality and to increase the understanding of private companies and public entities about this modality. Different issues related to employment and working conditions for employees involved in teleworking were discussed as well as the views of the social partners and European government policies on this form of work. The current national legislation on this labor modality has been examined jointly with national experts from the Netherlands and Spain. Possible initiatives to support the implementation of the telework promotion plans have been discussed.
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Formulation of a national strategy for the promotion of employment to empower women in Peru
- Start activities
- 19/03/2018
- End activities
- 23/03/2018
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion [Ministerio de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo]
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional (Regulatory & Policy)
- Code
- 2017-10
- Description
- This action is part of a series of actions in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) of Peru, in the area of labour and employment. In this circumstance, the MTPE aimed to set-up multi-sectoral public policies aimed to boost women’s employment. Experts from France and Spain presented key concepts on gender equality, including international declarations, resolutions and commitments for women’s rights, and looked into the legal national framework and policies. They presented good practices of EU member states, and worked out a basic toolkit that help to mainstream gender issues in employment policies and programs.
