STRENGTHEN2
Employment impact assessment to maximize job creation in Africa
Duration
1 August 2020 - 31 March 2026
Budget
€6,420,000
Development partner(s)
European Union
Reference
GLO/20/19/EUR
Location
sub-Saharan Africa
Contact
Project team: [email protected]
Project background
Given the high levels of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, rising inequalities in many countries, growing population and high levels of inequality, unemployment and underemployment, in particular among young people and women, more and better jobs are an absolute necessity in the region.
The STRENGTHEN2 project, hosted in the EMPINVEST branch of the ILO’s Employment Policy Department, is a joint initiative of the European Union and the ILO that focuses on job creation through investments. Launched in August 2020, the project is a strategic partnership with the overall goal of leveraging employment impact assessments to promote the creation of more and better jobs in sub-Saharan African countries.
The project pursues two objectives:
- To enhance the capacity to assess the employment outcomes of EU-funded investments and programmes in sub–Saharan African partner countries.
- To support African partner countries and EC services to design and finance investments and programs with a relatively rich employment content.
STRENGTHEN2 is scheduled to end in in March 2026 and builds on earlier ILO work, more concretely, efforts undertaken as part of the now concluded first STRENGTHEN project. The project collaborates closely with the African Development Bank (AfDB) project: Youth, Jobs and Skills Marker System (YJSMS), a transformative system to mainstream youth employment, skills development, and entrepreneurship across the bank’s investments.
Methodologies in brief
Methodological papers
Employment Satellite Account: from “Employed” to “Full-Time Equivalent”
Reference guide on Employment Impact Assessment
Credit guarantee schemes, MSME access to finance and labour productivity in Africa
A Brief Review of Input-Output Approaches to Employment Impact Assessment
How to measure the employment impact of guarantees
Credit guarantees: SME access to finance and employment in Africa
Employment impact assessments in Africa: Application and suitability of local multiplier analysis
The enhancement of input-output based employment assessment tools for EU operations in sub-Saharan Africa
The use of GIS in employment impact assessments
Briefings and background
Infographic
How can employment impact assessments help create more and better jobs ?
Guide for Employment Impact Assessments in the Roads Sector
Sénoba-Ziguinchor-Mpack road rehabilitation project : Assessment of the perception of impacts by users and households
Analysis of the construction sector and related employment in Cameroon
Research Brief
Harnessing nighttime lights data to measure the economic and employment effects of road infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa
Integration of EmpIAs, Republic of Korea
Institutionalisation of EmpIAs - 6 case studies
Employment Impact Assessments Reports
Road projects
Energy projects
Partner Countries
News and Events
- Malawi – validation workshop of the Bwanje Valley Irrigation Scheme EmpIA
- Zambia - validation workshop of Luangwa-Mwami Road EmpIA
- Senegal - validation workshop of RN4 road EmpIA highlights job creation
- Cameroon - Social Accounting Matrix (SAM)
- South Africa - Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States explore Employment Impact Assessments
- Malawi – moving towards EmpIA institutionalization
- Malawi – awareness-raising of employment impact assessment
- Malawi – enhancing employment impact assessment capacity
- Senegal – building capacity for employment impact assessment and policy simulation techniques
- Rwanda – leveraging EmpIA and EII
- Côte d’Ivoire – focus on employment in development policies
- Senegal – building technical capacity of national actors
- Cameroon – institutionalization of EmplAs
- Malawi – highlight of the importance of EmplAs
- Namibia – focus on EmpIA models
- Cameroon – EmplA needs
- Malawi – awareness-raising and technical training on EmpIAs
- Zambia – advanced training on EmpIA
The ILO organized a series of workshops with IFIs in order to exchange best practices and improve methodologies for measuring indirect employment impacts of financial institutions’ operations.
- Workshop on measuring quality of employment
- African Development Bank Group to introduce changes to prioritize investing in Africa’s young people
- Workshop on measuring green jobs in the context of a just transition
- Workshop on measuring non-direct employment impacts
- 3rd symposium on measuring quality of employment and non-direct employment impacts
- 2nd symposium on measuring quality of employment and long-term employment impact
- Measuring employment impact of investment projects
- 20th Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practitioners in Ethiopia
- ILO calls for stronger focus on decent job creation in EU development projects
- Green interventions at COP16 in Cali, Columbia
- Meet the experts at the 112th International Labour Conference
- 29th International Input-Output Association Conference
- 19th Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practitioners in Rwanda
Our Team
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