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A new Action Plan better targeting the needs of young jobseekers
An ILO project, completed in June 2015, helped Macedonian labour market institutions as well as employers’ and workers’ organizations to formulate an evidence-based youth employment action plan up to 2020 and to implement employment services and programmes more effectively targeting the needs of young jobseekers.
The project ‒ implemented by the International Labour Organization (ILO) from June 2014 to June 2015 - had two components .
The first component helped tripartite partners to formulate the National Youth Employment Action Plan 2020 of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia which was adopted by the Government on 25 August 2015 after a thorough review process.
The tripartite consultations started in April 2015 based on the evaluation of achievements and shortcomings of a previous Action Plan also developed with the technical assistance of the ILO.
The evaluation was based on a rigorous impact assessment of active labour market programmes implemented by the Employment Service Agency during the period of 2008-2012. This assessment was based on evidence collected and analysed with the ILO’s support.
A tripartite working group was formed, which first reviewed the collected evidence and considered how achievements could be further expanded and shortcomings resolved.
The tripartite working group continued its work in May and June 2015 with the development of the Action Plan having identified three priorities: redressing skills mismatch, supporting the job-creation capacity of enterprises and easing the transition of youth to work through more effective employment services and programme delivery.
The second component of the project assisted labour market institutions and social partners to review the workflow and service delivery system of the Employment Service Agency and to develop a profiling system more specifically targeting young unemployed. The project also helped to formulate a new approach to individual employment planning and to design a dedicated line of employment services targeting young unemployed.
The final result was the development and adoption of a new tool for individual employment plans targeting disadvantaged unemployed persons and delivering the most appropriate and more personalized mix of services and programmes for young disadvantaged people in order to ease their transition to work.
