Reducing Poverty by Promoting Employment of Youth and Other Vulnerable Groups in the Informal Econom

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Reducing Poverty by Promoting Employment of Youth
and Other Vulnerable Groupsin the Informal
Economy of Central Asia and Caucasus

• ILO Sub-regional Office for Eastern Europe and
  Central Asia
  
• EMP/STRAT, COOP, IFP/SKILLS, SFU, GENPROM, IFP
  SEED, INTEGRATION, ITC Turin
  
• March 2004
• Geneva

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Geographical coverage of DFID Project4
countries 2 Caucasus 2 Central
Asia Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Georgia Kyrgy
zstan
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2. Linkages to international development
frameworks and initiatives

• Azerbaijan PRSP (SPPRED) 2003-2005
• Georgia PRSP 2003-2005
• Kyrgyzstan CDF (until 2010) and PRSP
  (2003-2005, 2005-2007)
  
• Kazakhstan National PRP (2003-2005), and
  Kazakhstan 2030

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3. Vehicles National policy initiatives

• a. National Employment Strategies(Azerbaijan,
  Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan)
  
• Azerbaijan National Employment Strategy,
  2003-2004
  
• followed by National Action Plan (2004)
• Kyrgyzstan National Employment Concept, 2003,
• followed by National Employment Programme
  (2004)
  
• Kazakhstan National Employment Programme (2004)
• b. Local Economic Development Strategies(Kazakhst
  an, Georgia)
  
• Kazakhstan Almaty region (Taldykorgan),
  Karaganda region (DWPP)
  
• Georgia Borjomi region

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Target groupsYouth and Other Vulnerable Groups
in the Informal Economy School leavers and other
youth, refugees and IDPs, workers in the
informal sector
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Output 1.1National employment strategies with
special focus on youth employment embedded in
national PRSPs formulated and accepted by
national authorities

• Activities
• i Assessment of current employment and labour
  market situation
  
• ii Preparing background studies and research on
  the situation and labour market attachment of
  target groups
  
• iii Working with national institutions to
  increase their analytical capacities
  
• iv Carrying out broad consultations with social
  partners and other stakeholders
  
• v Assisting the Government and constituents in
  the preparation of National Employment Strategies

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Output 1.2Country becomes a Youth Employment
Network Champion Country

• Activities
• i Undertaking stakeholders analysis
• ii Providing assistance in creation of national
  forum on youth employment issues with the
  involvement of youth organisations, social
  partners, other key stakeholders
• iii Providing assistance in the expansion of
  social dialogue and strengthening of social
  dialogue mechanism as a consultation forum for
  the youth employment issues
• iv Preparing concrete measures of Youth
  Employment strategy
  
• v Including the Youth Employment Strategies into
  NES
  
• vi Facilitating broad consultative process in the
  country on the issues of youth employment
  
• vii Co-ordinating involvement of YEN partners (UN
  and WB) and other international agencies

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Output 1.3Instruments produced for monitoring
and evaluating decent work in the informal
economy, labour market information for the
informal economy improved

• Activities
• i Carrying out Decent Work Indicators Survey with
  the State Statistical Offices as a special module
  within existing Labour Force Survey
  
• ii Carrying out School-to-Work Transition Survey

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Output 1.4Increased capacity of national
authorities to analyse current employment and
labour market situation for the purposes of
policy planning and evaluation

• Activities
• i Organising a core group of experts among the
  staff of the State Statistical Office, Ministry
  of Labour, eventually other relevant institutions
  (Ministry of Economic Development, PRSP
  Secretariat, etc.)
• ii Training the core group on analytical and
  methodological issues
  

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Output 2.1Territorial diagnoses and
institutional mapping for local economic
development

• Activities
• i Carrying out feasibility studies
• ii Carrying out interviews
• iii Carrying out data collection and analysis

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Output 2.2LED structures created (LED Fora or
LED Agencies)

• Activities
• i Sensitisation and intermediation with local
  regional and national authorities
  
• ii Providing assistance in the expansion of
  social dialogue and strengthening of social
  dialogue mechanism as a consultation forum for
  LED issues
• iii Preparing analysis and providing advice to
  existing organisations
  
• iv Networking, co-ordination, and training
• v Setting up twinning relationships with existing
  ILO LED programmes in other countries of the
  region (Russia, Estonia, etc.)
  
• vi Providing assistance in creation of new
  structures

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Output 2.3LED strategies formulated in selected
regions

• Activities
• i Carrying out analysis of local economic
  opportunities
  
• ii Working with the regional LED structures on
  development of concrete LED strategies
  

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Output 3.1Training for Rural Economic
Empowerment adjusted to local conditions and
delivered to vulnerable groups (depending on the
assessment of current situation including
elements of CBT, SIYB, KAB, etc).

• Activities
• i Organising Corporate Community Groups and
  providing training in group management, Community
  Enterprise System, and Community Fund System
  
• ii Providing skills and entrepreneurship training
  to target groups
  
• iii Developing institutional and staff ability of
  partners and target groups to utilise the TREE
  methodology
  
• iv Adapting the methodology for the needs of a
  particular region
  

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Output 3.2Market access for informal economy
workers improved

• Activities
• i Data collection and capacity building of local
  stakeholders to sustain data collection
  
• ii Facilitating formation of groups of young
  people (rural and urban environment) around
  saving or production activities, or area-based
  principles
• iii Training of target groups on economic
  opportunities identification
  
• iv Knowledge base and lessons learned from the
  GENPROM/SEED project on Improving Market Access
  for Women in the Informal Economy will be used

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Output 3.3Micro-credit schemes designed by MoL
and MoE improved

• Activities
• i Carrying out survey on microfinance issues
  (module attached to existing HBS or existing UNDP
  Social Survey (Kazachstan))
  
• ii Providing recommendations to MoL, MoF and
  Central Bank on monitoring and implementation of
  micro-credit programmes for vulnerable groups
  using elements of subsidies from state/local
  budgets (Kazakhstan)
• iii Carrying out assessment of previous system of
  guarantee funds (Georgia)
  
• iv Providing recommendations to MoL on achieving
  sustainable functioning of guarantee funds system
  (Georgia)
  
• v Providing recommendations to MoL on
  experimental ALMP programmes of start-ups and
  subsidised job creation based on micro-credit
  (Georgia)

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Output 3.4Business Development Services provided
in pilot regions

• Activities
• i Carrying out market studies
• ii Setting up business database
• iii Developing business plans for programme
  participants (youth, women, displaced persons)