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.): Introduction: Contents

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

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The initial step in any employment generating strategy is to build up capacity in the relevant ministries as well as the representative institutions of the civil society to design and implement the of investment-led growth strategy. This is going to be achieved through the implementation of a regional programme to develop the national and regional capacity through the analysis and design alternative employment generating investment strategies. In so far as investment policies determine the volume and sectoral composition of direct interventions, the Poverty reducing employment strategies for sub-Saharan Africa is the key component of the programme. It will be summarised in Chapter I. Given its importance, the complete project document for this component is annexed to this Programme of Action.

The technical cooperation elements of a Programme of Action will abandon piece-meal interventions in favour of systematic programmes that can make a difference in creating jobs and reducing poverty. Mutually supportive technical assistance activities are proposed at both the regional and national levels, and will be described in Chapter II. It includes three regional level activities, and technical support at the national level in the following areas:

1. Promoting social dialogue for training Chapter II, section 2.2.1.
2. Small and medium enterprise development described in Chapter II, section 2.2.2.
3. Improving the data for employment and poverty reduction policy making, as detailed in Chapter II, section 2.2.3.
4. Employment-intensive programmes for the creation and rehabilitation of infrastructure, described in Chapter II, section 2.2.4.
5. Policies and programmes to enhance women's employment and their participation in decision making presented in Chapter II, section 2.2.5.
6. Policies and programmes for job creation through broad-based rural development (summarised in Chapter II, section 2.2.6.), including the promotion of developmental institutions (e.g. cooperatives described in section 2.2.7.).