Bahrain
- Youth Employment
The project was officially under the Integration Department. Object of the project: was to combat youth employment by facilitating the transition from school to work.
Main project activity was conducting the School-to-Work Transition survey. The Survey is a statistical tool that helps countries improve their youth employment policy and programme design through a better understanding of the characteristics and determinants of the youth employment challenge.
Egypt
- Tripartite Symposium on employment policy
Since the late nineties, the Employment Policy Unit of the ILO has carried out several technical activities in Egypt, such as technical reviews and advisory missions in order to provide assistance to national authorities in the formulation of sound employment and labour market policies. Tripartite seminars and meetings have also been held.
Recently, a national tripartite symposium on employment policy was organised in Cairo (16-17 January 2005) to discuss employment and labour market issues which are relevant for the creation of decent work in the country. EMP/POL contributed to this event with two papers, one on the findings of an evaluation of two components of the national Youth Employment Programme and the other showing what is needed in Egypt in order to achieve a good balance between labour market flexibility and employment and income security.
Morocco
- Country case study for the research project "Understanding how the labour market functions for youth in the developing world"
The objective of the country case studies is to move toward a better understanding of the nature and causes of youth labour market disadvantage by documenting the characteristics of the youth labour market, including key indicators and by identifying and gathering hard evidence on the determinants of youth unemployment and underemployment. The study is organised around two parts:
Part I: Characteristics - Where does the specificity of employment vis-à-vis young people lie?
- 1. Key indicators of the youth labour market
- 2. Which young people?
- 3. To what extent are the labour markets for young people and adults distinct entities?
- 4. Time spent in unemployment
Part II: Determinants - Why the difference between the youth unemployment problem and the unemployment problem in general? Why are young people two to three times more likely to be either unemployed or underemployed than are prime age workers?
- 1. Demographic factors
- 2. Labour market and social institutions
- 3. Aggregate demand
Oman
- Employment and training policy
The ILO mission on employment and training policy that visited the Sultanate at the end of September 2003 aimed at reviewing and assessing the employment situation and the employment policies of the Sultanate with a specific focus on employment policies, labour market information systems, training and skills development, small enterprise development and social protection.
The Mission made several recommendations in key areas, which were discussed during the follow-up mission in September 2004 with senior officials of the Ministry of Manpower and other key stakeholders. The need for additional analytical work and capacity building was expressed and a course for the design and implementation of specific activities and projects charted. Four project documents were submitted to the Ministry of Manpower in January 2005 in the fields of VET reform, Employment Policy, Social administration, policy and legislation and gender and employment issues.
Saudi-Arabia
- Employment policy review
Employment policy review with a focus on labour market information, OSH, and the policy of "saudization".
Yemen
- Employment Policy Review
|
