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Country Employment Policy (EMP/CEPOL)

Areas of Work

- Employment policy reviews
Upon requests from the constituents, the Employment Policy and Advisory Services Unit provides assistance in undertaking national employment policy reviews. The reviews aim to support countries to adjust, further develop and implement existing employment policies. The activities include advisory missions, discussions of the findings through national stakeholders' seminars and workshops and possible follow-up support on policy implementations.

- Employment strategies and policies
Following requests by member states, the Employment Policy and Advisory Services Unit provides assistance in formulating and implementing national employment strategies or policies and/or youth employment action plans. Activities include: advisory missions; providing support to preparation of employment strategy; tripartite conferences; seminars, workshops and setting up national tripartite working groups to discuss the proposals and recommendations; and design technical cooperation projects with other ILO departments to implement policies and programmes in support of the employment strategy.

- Labour market policies
The Employment Policy and Advisory Service Unit's work on labour market policies include in-depth analysis of the labour market and labour market institutions, exploring the link between the labour market and the overall economic performance and evaluating/providing guidance on labour market policies' evaluation in terms of its effectiveness and impact.

- Contribution to PRSP process
At the request of a member state, of a partner agency or of another ILO Department, the Employment Policy and Advisory Services Unit provides inputs for the preparation of the PRSP so as to include an employment component in the fight against poverty. More generally, the Employment Policy and Advisory Services Unit contributes through advisory missions, tripartite workshops, training seminars and technical cooperation projects to promote employment policies to fight poverty.

- Gender and Employment Policies
Gender and Employment Policies work includes developing pro-active policies for promoting gender equality in employment, assisting in mainstreaming gender into employment promotion within the Employment Sector and employment policy advice. The staff also provides technical assistance to projects in the field.
        
   
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0Last update: 18 December 2007