• Development of Strategic Plan for the Employment Service Agency of the Republic of North Macedonia

    Start activities
    17-07-2023
    End activities
    09-10-2023
    Partner Institution
    Employment Service Agency
    Type of Assistance
    Organisation/business strategy & planning
    Code
    2023-22
    Description
    National Employment Service of North Macedonia requested SOCIEUX + support to gain more knowledge on how to effectively implement formalised strategic planning process and elaborate a three-year strategic plan of the institution. Strategic plan was a legal requirement in accordance to the Law on Budgets and it should have been submitted to the Ministry of Finance in several months. Senior expertise was mobilized from Swedish, Polish, and French institutions. Partner institution along with the experts developed strategic plan and officially started its implementation.
  • Design of a comprehensive Recruitment and Selection Management Model for the Directorate General of Civil Service (DGSC)

    Start activities
    27-02-2023
    End activities
    09/09/2023
    Partner Institution
    General Directorate of Civil Service [Dirección General De Servicio Civil] (DGSC)
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2022-33
    Description
    Since 2018, the Personnel Recruitment and Selection Area of the Directorate General of Civil Service (DGSC) has been developing an initiative that aims to transform the recruitment and selection processes applying to civil servants of 45 institutions that operate under the Civil Service Regime, as to stimulate efficiency, automation, and accessibility in the supply of administrative positions. Against this framework, the action, through the involvement of various teams of Spanish experts mobilized by SOCIEUX+, aimed to significantly improve the civil service recruitment system mainly by accompanying a consultation process involving a sample of HR offices and their regional headquarters, as to take into account their perception and needs. Based on those consultations, experts helped co-constructing a new comprehensive operational model for recruitment, one that is transparent and in accordance with the directives of the Public Employment Framework Law. Finally, experts also helped to develop software requirements for the system’s automation and harmonization.
  • Capacity building of staff of Ogun State Bureau of Job Creation on PES delivery

    Start activities
    16-01-2023
    End activities
    16-06-2023
    Partner Institution
    Ogun State Bureau of Job Creation and Youth Empowerment
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2022-29
    Description
    Through collaboration with the Ogun Bureau of Job Creation in Nigeria, this initiative, executed remotely, significantly enhanced the capabilities of the Bureau staff in delivering Public Employment Services (PES). By conducting an organizational capacity assessment, French PES experts identified areas where job counselors required additional training. Subsequently, Spanish and Slovenian experts developed tailored training modules utilizing the SOCIEUX+ e-learning platform. These modules concentrated on essential aspects such as managing a PES service, fostering employer relationships and partnerships, and effectively communicating the services provided by the bureau to the public.
  • Establishment of Thika model Job Centres to act as a one-stop-shop for all employment services for youth

    Start activities
    17-10-2022
    End activities
    18-08-2023
    Partner Institution
    National Employment Authority
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational management (structures & functions), Institutional capacity building
    Code
    2022-19
    Description
    To better implement the national policies on youth employment, the National Employment Authority (NEA) solicited SOCIEUX+ cooperation to support them to create a pilot one-stop-shop in employment services for youth in Thika, that could be replicated nation-wide in case of success. This SOCIEUX+ action focused on developing a strategy to set up this pilot one-stop-shop by first realizing a diagnostic of the National Employment Authority (NEA) for the establishment of Thika’s one-stop-shop, focused on youth, then by jointly developing an operational strategic plan for the creation of the pilot one-stop-shop in Thika. The 3rd activity focused on developing a toolkit on youth counselling activities for job counsellors in Thika. The action mobilized Belgian and Swedish expertise.
  • Development of proposals for normative regulation of the activities of non-standard employment (digital platform) workers

    Start activities
    15-11-2022
    End activities
    16-06-2023
    Partner Institution
    JSC "Center for the Development of Human Resources"
    Type of Assistance
    Legislative & regulatory framework development
    Code
    2022-17
    Description
    The Workforce Development Center is a think tank related to the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Kazakhstan. Its role is to provide analytical expertise and information support to the government on labour market related issues. With gig-economy becoming a wider phenomenon in Kazakhstan, the Center was engaged in the preparation of regulatory framework related to digital platform workers. With expertise from Hungary, Lithuania and Portugal mobilized for this cooperation, the action contributed to better understanding of the problematics by the Center’s staff by sharing knowledge of approaches already used in EU countries and supranational European recommendations. This was followed by an assessment of the existing legal framework in Kazakhstan and proposals and guidelines for a reform.
  • Review of the legal framework and strategy supporting veterans? entrepreneurial activities

    Start activities
    15-08-2022
    End activities
    17-03-2023
    Partner Institution
    The Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional capacity building, Policy development
    Code
    2022-16
    Description
    The Directorate of Civic Identity and Veteran Development is an independent structural unit of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine. The Ministry indicated the need to review the existing legal framework regarding entrepreneurship support to ex-combatants, as well as the Ministry’s strategy supporting veterans’ entrepreneurial activities. The object of this action was geared towards reintegration, rather than reinsertion. Reintegration is the process by which ex-combatants acquire civilian status and gain sustainable employment and income. During the first activity, experts from France produced a review of the legal framework and strategy related to the reintegration of veterans through entrepreneurship. The second activity showcased good practices of programmes supporting veterans entrepreneurship in Croatia. Both activities were carried out remotely.