Tunisia/EU: €2.5 Million to Support Job Seekers
28 November 2011
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A conference launching the twinning program "Support for the Ministry of Professional Training and Employment in promoting employment" was held Friday in Tunis. The European Union has allocated a budget of €2.5 million to improve the effectiveness of employment policies in Tunisia, to support job seekers and micro-businesses…
In the same context, the twinning program aims to improve policies and tools to combat unemployment, as well as the observation and analysis systems necessary for their management.
It also aims to improve the quality of services and strengthen the intervention capacities of the National Agency for Employment and Independent Work, observation, monitoring and analysis of the employment market, and the creation of coherence in institutional and technical support.
This program will primarily concern the personnel, managers and directors of the National Agency for Employment and Independent Work, the national employment and qualifications observatory of the Ministry of Professional Training and Employment.
This project is part of the partnership between the European Union, thanks to "know-how" closely aligned with Tunisia’s needs and extensive experience in the sound management of European projects.
In this perspective, the twinning program provides, in its first component, support to the national agency for employment and independent work. It should result in an improvement of the intervention and operational methods of the public establishment in five areas, three of which are dedicated to internal strengthening, particularly for the information system, management and quality approach. It also involves another area of intervention on local and regional partnerships and a final one on the promotion of micro-enterprises, particularly for young people.
Each of these areas refers to a series of results that constitute both the concrete conditions for their achievement, the measurable assessment of this achievement and the means of their operational activation in the overall system of employment policies. In its second component, the twinning program provides support to the national employment and qualifications observatory. The observatory benefits, for its part, from an action in three areas, the first focusing on the observatory’s capacity to provide data and market analyses at different scales and horizons.
The second relates to the development of monitoring and evaluation of programs for employment and vocational training. The third contributes to the first two by strengthening the organization of the national employment and qualifications observatory.
These first two components must both provide and be part of a third, broader component which, in return, must ensure the overall coherence of the first two: the concrete translation of European guidelines to contribute to an employment strategy in Tunisia and the improvement of the management and evaluation of the performance of external support.
To meet the objectives and main areas mentioned above in the twinning program, a Franco-Swedish offer is based on three principles that also outline its main lines. On the one hand, an extended expertise offer and the mobilization of experts with complementary skills.
The choice was made to mobilize skills that closely meet the project’s result indicators and which, for a majority of actions, articulate complementary expertise from France and Sweden. This partnership makes it possible to take into account, with this broadened expertise, the expectations and constraints of the Tunisian authorities while providing the efficient methods and tools adopted by the French and Swedish public authorities.
During his speech, Said Aidi, Minister of Professional Training and Employment, specified that this is a strategic partnership between the European Union and Tunisia, within the framework of the modernization and opening up of the economy, particularly the development of the employment sector for young Tunisians.
Nadia Ben Tamansourt
AfricanManager.com
Published on November 25, 2011.
Posted online on November 28, 2011.
In the same context, the twinning program aims to improve policies and tools to combat unemployment, as well as the observation and analysis systems necessary for their management.
It also aims to improve the quality of services and strengthen the intervention capacities of the National Agency for Employment and Independent Work, observation, monitoring and analysis of the employment market, and the creation of coherence in institutional and technical support.
This program will primarily concern the personnel, managers and directors of the National Agency for Employment and Independent Work, the national employment and qualifications observatory of the Ministry of Professional Training and Employment.
This project is part of the partnership between the European Union, thanks to "know-how" closely aligned with Tunisia’s needs and extensive experience in the sound management of European projects.
In this perspective, the twinning program provides, in its first component, support to the national agency for employment and independent work. It should result in an improvement of the intervention and operational methods of the public establishment in five areas, three of which are dedicated to internal strengthening, particularly for the information system, management and quality approach. It also involves another area of intervention on local and regional partnerships and a final one on the promotion of micro-enterprises, particularly for young people.
Each of these areas refers to a series of results that constitute both the concrete conditions for their achievement, the measurable assessment of this achievement and the means of their operational activation in the overall system of employment policies. In its second component, the twinning program provides support to the national employment and qualifications observatory. The observatory benefits, for its part, from an action in three areas, the first focusing on the observatory’s capacity to provide data and market analyses at different scales and horizons.
The second relates to the development of monitoring and evaluation of programs for employment and vocational training. The third contributes to the first two by strengthening the organization of the national employment and qualifications observatory.
These first two components must both provide and be part of a third, broader component which, in return, must ensure the overall coherence of the first two: the concrete translation of European guidelines to contribute to an employment strategy in Tunisia and the improvement of the management and evaluation of the performance of external support.
To meet the objectives and main areas mentioned above in the twinning program, a Franco-Swedish offer is based on three principles that also outline its main lines. On the one hand, an extended expertise offer and the mobilization of experts with complementary skills.
The choice was made to mobilize skills that closely meet the project’s result indicators and which, for a majority of actions, articulate complementary expertise from France and Sweden. This partnership makes it possible to take into account, with this broadened expertise, the expectations and constraints of the Tunisian authorities while providing the efficient methods and tools adopted by the French and Swedish public authorities.
During his speech, Said Aidi, Minister of Professional Training and Employment, specified that this is a strategic partnership between the European Union and Tunisia, within the framework of the modernization and opening up of the economy, particularly the development of the employment sector for young Tunisians.
Nadia Ben Tamansourt
AfricanManager.com
Published on November 25, 2011.
Posted online on November 28, 2011.
