Integrated Human Resource Development for Employment Promotion

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Integrated Human Resource Development for
Employment Promotion
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Presentation Outline

• Background
• Objectives
• Employment Promotion Challenges
• ILO SWAps approach
• Fiji Case Example
• Drawbacks of SWAps
• Benefits of SWAps

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Objectives of SWAps ILO

• Identify a holistic approach to development e.g.
  
• Combining technical skills, business skills
  training and capital to promote employment and
  income generating activities.
• To review to what extent the current technical
  skills training are responsive to the labor
  market needs.
• To provide a platform for strategic reviews and
  action planning on cross cutting thematic
  concerns e.g. HIV/AIDS in workplaces, poverty
  alleviation, regulatory and policy environment
• To maximize the use of existing resources (e.g.
  govt structures) and strengthen their capacities

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Employment promotion challenges
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SWAps The approach
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The example of Fiji National Centre for Small
and Micro Enterprise Development (NCSMED)

• Their website www.ncsmed.org.fj
• Outlines the framework for sector wide
  collaboration in Fiji
• ILO Technical assistance

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NCSMEDThemes

• Research capacity ILO (SMES)
• SIYB,KAB,EYB,IYES etc
• Finance
• Start Up Capital and business growth loans
• Micro finance and small business loans
• Credit guarantee schemes
• Business Incubation
• Village and township enterprises
• Poverty alleviation Walking out of poverty

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Case Walking out of poverty

• The programme is designed to provide
  opportunities to people living in poverty
• Enable the recipients to lead a life with
  dignity.
• The programme is initiated jointly by Ministry of
  Women, Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation and
  the ILO.
• Provides targeted training and direct support to
  trainees, either to find formal employment or to
  engage in gainful economic activities.

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Walking out of Poverty

• Belief that poverty alleviation is a moral and
  social responsibility for all.
• With this belief and motivation, the Ministry of
  Women, Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation,
  the ILO, Heads of Organizations, Donor agencies
  meet regularly
• The meetings discuss various ways and develops
  strategies on how to assist the victims of
  poverty to meet their challenges.

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Walking out of Poverty
Policy Group Minister for Women, Social Welfare
Pov. Allev. Chairperson Minister for Local
Govt, Housing, Squatter Settlement
Environment Minister for Lands Mineral
Resources Minister for Agriculture, Sugar Land
Resettlement
Operational Structure
Implementation Director Poverty Alleviation
(Ministry of Women, Social Welfare PA)
Director Housing, Town Clerk Suva City
Council Director HART Ministry of Squatter
Settlement Directors Ministry of Agriculture
Field Officers of the respective
Ministries
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Walking out of Poverty

• Target beneficiaries
• People living in squatter settlements homes of
  Hope
• Single mothers with no regular source of income
• Displaced people
• Street beggars or street children
• Prisoners dependents
• Ex-prisoners
• Rural inhabitants without land or source of
  income.

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Target outreach

• Beneficiaries for 2005 201 people
• Sewing, tailoring, screen-printing and
• designing 106
• Cooking, baking, pastry making 46
• Nursery, Flower Arrangements, Vanilla
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• Poultry, Animal Husbandry
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• Training courses
• Start/Improve Your Business
• Practical Skills Development
• Lifestyle and Personal Development

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Training Beneficiaries

• Lusi Ducia runs a retail shop selling clothes
  imported from the United States. She has paid off
  her first loan of 1000 from the National Micro
  Finance Unit. With her second loan of 2000,
  Lusia has expanded her business by opening
  another shop in Nadi.

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Beneficiaries

• Salote Bolabasaga, Merewalesi Masi, and Eseta
  Cagi Mar operate a florist business at the
  Harbour Terminal, Suva. Their business includes
  flower arrangement for functions, sale of pot
  plants and other plant accessories.

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Determination of Training

• Takes into consideration
• Market Demand
• Employers needs
• Practical Business Concept
• Motivation/Attitude Change

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Responsibilities

• Ministry of Local Government, Housing, Squatter
• Settlement Environment
• To provide venue to run business
• Squatter resettlement
• Ministry of Lands Mineral Resources
• To provide land for skills training purposes
• Ministry of Women, Social Welfare Poverty
  Alleviation
• To provide equipment and support
• Start and Improve your business training

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Responsibilities cont..d

• Revolving Fund with Fiji Development Bank (FDB)
• To provide Micro-Finance Ministry of Women
• Business loans to start and improve Businesses
• Life style improvements
• Income generating projects started
• Resettlements for squatters
• Sending children to school
• Proper sanitation, water supply, electricity etc

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Drawbacks of SWAps

• Slow start and takes time to set up
• Mind boggling to bring the different partners
  together
• Requires leadership, commitment and focus
• Can lose focus on outputs and get more involved
  in processes of integration
• Consultative processes might be time consuming
• Technical assistance required in facilitation
  sector bias?
• The problem of attribution (impact)

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Benefits

• Resources Management
• Optimal use no duplication
• Enhance focus on other priorities

• National Accountability
• Stakeholder involvement
• Results driven

• Capacity building
• Institutions
• Staff
• Targeted Tech. Ass

• Country Priorities
• Targeted donor support
• Stakeholders involvement