Promotion of Youth Employment in Albania

Policy Initiative – Improved social dialogue leads to active employment and skills development policies and decent work for men and women. Technical assistance will be provided by ILO to the MoSWY to: --- prepare the NESS’ Action Plan, including financial instruments, policy coordination mechanisms, monitoring procedures, and clear definition of roles and responsibilities; --- offer technical support to NESS and NAVETQ in the framework of the TVET reform and the modernization of employment services, with an emphasis on building the institutional capacity for the implementation of the NESS 2014-2020; --- design new interventions based on the NESS 2014-2020 as part of the EU IPA II cycle; --- assure the sustainability of the main results achieved by the IPA 2010 Project on Human Resources Development, bridging interventions with the new programmes to be developed in the upcoming years; --- mobilize additional donor resources for the implementation of NESS. UN WOMEN will be engaged in advocating with Government and supporting the development of the amendments to the Labor Code and related legislation to strengthen women’s rights in the workplace. Key deliverables which the DRT-F will contribute towards (include UN Entities to implement): To be implemented by ILO: - Roadmap on how to implement the NESS 2014-2020, monitoring procedures and definition of mid-term reviews and targets. - A Sectoral Approach document is finalized by MoSWY with technical support of the ILO experts and consulted with the main stakeholders for further approval by the European Commission, including qualitative and quantitative indicators. - Technical advice provided for the development of a coherent approach between the strategic planning of MoSWY underpinned in the NESS 2014-2020 and the programing of the IPA II future interventions. - Technical assistance provided to support the development of the labour force survey methodology To be implemented by UN Women: - Advocate for and support amendments to the Labor Code and related legislation to strengthen women’s rights in the workplace

Project symbol

ALB/90/587/99

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Budapest

Start date

01/09/2015

End date

31/12/2016

Total allocation

51975

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

46382

Development Partners

United Nations Development Programme

Country/Countries

Albania

Outcomes

Promoting fair and effective labour migration policies