Technical support on youth employment in Macedonia

This project aims at improving social dialogue and capacity building for effective youth employment solutions. The project seeks to enhance the capacity of the government and local social partners to respond to the new and urgent labour market needs of the Macedonian youth and to play a strategic role in the design and application of new public programmes on youth employment. The interventions will focus on supporting local economic and social councils and local employment centres in establishing pilot programmes that can be scaled up; improving the capacity to promote rights at work and the quality of employment; and, at a central level, supporting the development of an occupational outlook that collects and synthesizes information on education and training pathways, job profiles and current job vacancies. The capacity of the Ministry of Labour to develop, implement and assess policies through better monitoring and evaluation and labour market information usage will be strengthened and the Youth Employment National Action Plan will be revised and updated with the engagement of the tripartite constituents. Work under this project contributes to the achievement of SDG 8 and its target 8.6, which is reflected in the country’s partnership for Sustainable Development – UN Strategy for 2016-20.

Project symbol

MKD/16/01/RBS

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Budapest

Start date

01/01/2016

End date

31/12/2019

Total allocation

200482

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

200482

Development Partners

Core voluntary funds (RBSA)

Country/Countries

North Macedonia

Outcomes

More and better jobs for inclusive growth and improved youth employment prospects