Jobs for Africa - Towards a Programme of Action - Report of the ILO/UNDP Programme on Employment Generation and Poverty Reduction (ILO

Jobs for Africa - Towards a Programme of Action - Report of the ILO/UNDP Programme on Employment Generation and Poverty Reduction (ILO - UNDP, 1997, 107 p.)

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Preface

Introduction

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Programme justification

Programme Objective

Contents

Chapter 1: Capacity building at the national level

1.1 Poverty reducing employment strategies for sub-Saharan Africa7

Chapter 2: Technical assistance for the generation of employment and reduction of poverty

2.1 Technical Assistance at the Regional Level

2.2 Technical Assistance at the National Level

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2.2.1 Promoting social dialogue for training

2.2.2 Small and medium enterprise development

i. Local Economic Development and Employment creation through Micro and Small Enterprise Promotion

ii. Access to Financial Services

iii. Support to the development of the Informal economy

2.2.3 A poverty and employment monitoring action technical assistance programme

2.2.4 Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme (EIP)

2.2.5 Policies and programmes to enhance women's employment

2.2.6 Policies and programmes for job creation through rural development

2.2.7 Job creation through cooperatives in Africa

Annex

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Part 1: Context

Introduction

Promoting poverty-reducing employment on the basis of investment-led growth

Part 2: Project Justification

2.1 Problem to be addressed: the present situation

2.2 Expected end of project situation

2.3 Target beneficiaries

2.4 Reasons for assistance from UNDP

2.5 Special considerations

2.6 Coordination arrangements

Part 3: Project Strategies and Implementation Arrangements

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National Strategy and Implementation Arrangements

Regional Programme Strategy and Implementation Arrangements

Part 4: Development Objective

Part 5: Immediate Objectives, Outputs and Activities

5.1 Immediate Objective 1

5.2 Immediate Objective 2

5.3 Immediate Objective 3

5.4 Immediate Objective 4

Part 6: Benchmarks for Success

Part 7: Inputs

Part 8: Risks

Part 9: Prior Obligations and Prerequisites

Part 10: Project Reviews, Reporting and Evaluation

Part 11: Legal Context

Part 12: Budgets

Annex I: Typical sequences of Project activities at National level

Annex II: Schedule of Project

Annex III: Job Descriptions Project Manager/CTA

Back Cover

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First published 1997
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