Employment Service Agency with experts from Germany and Lithuania implemented new methods for reducing unemployment. The policies of labor market are adjusted from central to regional and local level in accordance to the needs of the employers. The goal is to produce professionals that will not remain unemployed after completing the education.
The activities are part of two-year EU-funded twinning project “Support to the Employment Service Agency for Implementation of Active Labor Market Measures and Services” which wrapped up with conference on accomplished results. Four different active measures in employment centers in Bitola, Kumanovo, Tetovo and Skopje have been implemented. EU has allocated €10.000 for each of the measures.
The first part of the implementation of the measures yielded results and encourages us in the following period to start thinking at local and regional level, to plan measures that will be more successful. We will target the people living in those regions and will give them the opportunity quickly find resources, to implement them and faster become successful on the labor market, Vlatko Popovski, Director of the Employment Service Agency said.
German Ambassador Christina Althauser pointed out that the commitment of the labor market is a very important challenge for any country. We must have a comprehensive picture of the system of qualification of unemployed and possible improvement of their skills. It was therefore important that the Twinning Project cooperated with the International Labor Organisation to improve the system for profiling, Althauser said.
EU Resident Twinning Advisor Axel Buerger announced that the support to the Employment Service Agency to implement measures for labor market will continue in the next three months.
The project was implemented in cooperation with the Germany’s Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and Lithuania’s Ministry of Social Security and Labor.