Employment Support 2 Project

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The project development objective aims to provide employment services for an estimated 10,000 people who are either recently retrenched and above 45 years of age and/or those who are actively seeking jobs for two or more years in Republika Srpska (RS) and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBH); and Further reform agenda to bring behavioral change and business change in the employment services by focusing the PES on providing effective job brokerage services; employment assistance programs including counseling services; programs to assist the unemployed; analytical and information services including disseminating labor market information. The project has the following three components: Component 1) will focus the employment services on matching employers with job vacancies to appropriately skilled active job seekers; and on providing, through private sector service providers, income earning opportunities to active job seekers and to the hardcore unemployed based on the experience of the Pilot Emergency Labor Redeployment Project (PELRP). Component 2) will upgrade and strengthen the Public Employment Services (PES) capacity to provide and outsource job brokerage and employment services programs through the development of effective procedures, clear guidelines and regulations, staff training and the piloting of analytical labor market information systems including introducing labor market research units in the Ministries of Labor. Component 3) will support the project implementation and coordination between all partners in the Second Employment Support Project (SESP). The project would be managed by the Project Implementation Units (PIUs) and would include the supervision and monitoring of all components under the project as well as the knowledge transfer to and training of participating agencies (PES).