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Support for the definition of the strategic plan of the Niger employment agency, and adaptation of the services provided to companies and job seekers
- Start activities
- 23/12/2020
- End activities
- 06/03/2022
- Partner Institution
- National Agency for the Promotion of Employment
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2020-12
- Description
- The National Agency for the Promotion of Employment requested SOCIEUX+ assistance in enhancing the quality of its services to job seekers. French and Spanish experts worked on providing the ANPE with concrete actions to take place to streamline and improve its services among the different agencies, with the resources available. A handful of job counselors also benefited from a training of trainers to have a multiplying effect with newcomers.
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Design of training structure and formalization of a training course for young business creators in Mauritania
- Start activities
- 04/01/2021
- End activities
- 17/06/2022
- Partner Institution
- Patronal Federation of Services and Self Employment
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2020-08
- Description
- The Action responded to the partner’s need to have available strategies and practices apt to enhance entrepreneurship’s skills through training to young entrepreneurs. Experts from Belgium and France assessed the existing entrepreneurship support ecosystem and defined of a roadmap for setting up comprehensive training services for young entrepreneurs and training of trainers/coaches. The further activities were dedicated to jointly build training modules of the curriculum in entrepreneurship, and to deploy a 5-days training of trainers on entrepreneurship for the partner’s agents.
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Social dialogue and public-private partnerships for green jobs in the Forestry sector of Loreto
- Start activities
- 21/06/2021
- End activities
- 29/07/2022
- Partner Institution
- Regional Government of Loreto
- Type of Assistance
- Organisation/business strategy & planning
- Code
- 2019-38
- Description
- The Action aimed to support the regional government of Loreto to promote opportunities for decent green jobs. It focused on the potential of public-private mechanisms for the sustainable development of Loreto's forestry sector with the generation of green, formal and decent jobs for the local youth. The Regional Direction of Employment chose to join an existing Regional Forestry Roundtable. Experts from France, Germany and Spain mapped the value chains of the forestry sector, made an analysis of the needed professional skills to access quality green jobs. In that perspective, experts formulated a proposal for a pilot training programme for young people, that could act as a catalyst for creating employment opportunities in the regional forestry sector.
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Capacity building of employment advisors and job developers on soft skills
- Start activities
- 08/10/2020
- End activities
- 15/04/2022
- Partner Institution
- Natinal Employment Fund [Fond National de l'Emploi] (FNE)
- Type of Assistance
- Capacity building
- Code
- 2019-33
- Description
- This action in collaboration with the National Employment Fund of Cameroon, aimed at improving services provided to job seekers, more specifically by assessing capacities of job counsellors on the topic of soft skills. Experts from France and Belgium focused on empowering job counselors in the appropriation of techniques and key skills of job counseling, with an emphasis on young job seekers. A large number of job counselors took part in the construction of training of trainers, involving staff from Yaoundé and Douala.
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Capacity building for the general directorate of entrepreneurship promotion
- Start activities
- 18/01/2021
- End activities
- 05/02/2022
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises, and Employment Promotion
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational management (structures & functions)
- Code
- 2019-32
- Description
- The action aimed at supporting the Directorate for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Employment (DPEE) of Benin and other agencies under supervision of the Ministry of Labour in improving its performance, managerial capacity and ability to deliver services in the field of entrepreneurship and employment promotion. French peer experts focused on analyzing specific needs and gaps and identified four axes for trainings, to be implemented through the following activities. Trainings targeted both the managerial and organizational capacities of decision-makers and technical agents within the Ministry, and capacity development at the 'operational' level of the various key actors in the promotion of entrepreneurship and employment services.
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Enhancing capacity for public employment services activities: outreach to employers, speed dating, job fairs and supervision of private employment agencies
- Start activities
- 10/05/2021
- End activities
- 11/11/2022
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour
- Type of Assistance
- Code
- 2019-31
- Description
- The Ministry of Labour of Suriname requested SOCIEUX+ support to enhance the capacity of the national Public employment Service to serve employers through better recruitment and labour market intermediation services. Experts from Belgium, France, and the Netherlands applied a progressive approach that involved local stakeholders into a constructive dialogue that allowed to assess the current state of art of PES’ services to employers and envisage corrective measures that could bring improvements, based on a shared knowledge and drawing inspiration from practical measures in place the experts’ own countries.
