Human Capital Technical Assistance (SIDEM APL #1)

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The objective of the Human Capital Technical Assistance Project in the Slovak Republic is the development of institutional capacity for evidence-based policy making within the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family (MOLSAF), and the Ministry of Education (MOE). The project will assist the Government in modernizing its systems of employment, education and social cohesion by developing an effective policy infrastructure to implement, manage, and evaluate employment, education and social cohesion reforms within the MOLSAF and MOE. To this end, the project components are as follows. 1) Creation of a policy capacity, to create a framework within which policy making, and the design and implementation of the components of reform in both Ministries and associated institutions can be coordinated. 2) Investment in human resources, to achieve a significant improvement in the quality of human resources available for policy making, and implementation in the two participating Ministries and associated institutions, through training and development of existing staff in policy, and reform impact analysis, and, through targeted recruitment strategies. 3) Building and upgrading institutional capacity, t o create and implement an integrated policy management system to structure and guide the various steps in the policy cycle in both the participating Ministries, and the network of associated institutions.