A pension to encourage employment to replace the Amal allowance
27 March 2012
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The Amal program, which provides young graduates with an allowance of 200 dinars per month for a maximum of one year, will be replaced by another mechanism.
In an interview with the TAP agency, the Minister of Vocational Training and Employment indicated that efforts are currently focused on replacing the Amal allowance with a pension aimed at encouraging employment and the creation of income sources.
This pension will be paid to beneficiaries according to specific criteria that will be announced at the end of this month. Particular attention will be paid to young people from disadvantaged regions, he added.
A program aimed at promoting the integration of beneficiaries of this allowance into the job market is also under development. It includes training (theoretical and practical) and encourages trainees to create private projects that the ministry will finance or to take up local jobs (tutoring, participation in public interest projects, contribution to associative activities, etc.).
Abdelwahab Maatatar also indicated that the government has never considered abolishing the allowance granted to young people seeking employment. He added that the idea of revising it is dictated by the results of the evaluation carried out by the current government with the help of civil society components.
This work shows that the Amal allowance did not achieve the expected objectives, both in terms of the target audience and in terms of employment or internship opportunities found. Only six thousand young people found a job out of more than 140,000 graduates who benefited from this allowance in 2011, representing an amount of 300 million dinars borrowed from the World Bank.
In 2012, around 60,000 new graduates from universities and training centers joined the list of job seekers. The number of beneficiaries of the Amal allowance has thus risen to 200,000, requiring an envelope of 500 million, explains the minister. (TAP)
Maghrebemergent.com
Published on March 25, 2012.
Posted online on March 27, 2012.
In an interview with the TAP agency, the Minister of Vocational Training and Employment indicated that efforts are currently focused on replacing the Amal allowance with a pension aimed at encouraging employment and the creation of income sources.
This pension will be paid to beneficiaries according to specific criteria that will be announced at the end of this month. Particular attention will be paid to young people from disadvantaged regions, he added.
A program aimed at promoting the integration of beneficiaries of this allowance into the job market is also under development. It includes training (theoretical and practical) and encourages trainees to create private projects that the ministry will finance or to take up local jobs (tutoring, participation in public interest projects, contribution to associative activities, etc.).
Abdelwahab Maatatar also indicated that the government has never considered abolishing the allowance granted to young people seeking employment. He added that the idea of revising it is dictated by the results of the evaluation carried out by the current government with the help of civil society components.
This work shows that the Amal allowance did not achieve the expected objectives, both in terms of the target audience and in terms of employment or internship opportunities found. Only six thousand young people found a job out of more than 140,000 graduates who benefited from this allowance in 2011, representing an amount of 300 million dinars borrowed from the World Bank.
In 2012, around 60,000 new graduates from universities and training centers joined the list of job seekers. The number of beneficiaries of the Amal allowance has thus risen to 200,000, requiring an envelope of 500 million, explains the minister. (TAP)
Maghrebemergent.com
Published on March 25, 2012.
Posted online on March 27, 2012.
