Tunisia - Technical assistance for enhancing the social protection and labor system while promoting socioeconomic inclusion of the poor and vulnerable (Arabe)

This completion reports on completed deliverables and related results bythe advisory and knowledge service “Enhancing the Social Protection and Labor System while Promoting Socioeconomic Inclusion of the Poor and Vulnerable in Tunisia” over the period...  Voir la suite This completion reports on completed deliverables and related results bythe advisory and knowledge service “Enhancing the Social Protection and Labor System while Promoting Socioeconomic Inclusion of the Poor and Vulnerable in Tunisia” over the period March 2016 - March 2017. This Advisory Service and Analytics (ASA) aimed to “improve the capacity of the relevant Tunisian ministries to design programs and policies to promote socioeconomic inclusion of disadvantaged groups, including thepoor, the vulnerable and youth”. The selection of TA areas stemmed from the country context, counterparts’interest and strategic Bank priorities. The Concept Note pointed to the well-known issuesof high unemployment, limited growth and job creation, as well as to worrisome trends in vulnerability and inequality, with strong intersections between these socioeconomic trends. The Government and the Bank agreed to focus the TA on informing the forthcoming jobs operation for “vulnerable Groups”, with particular areas of interest. Two main points of context are noteworthy. First, at the time of Program Design, the Clienthad also requested the development of an inclusive jobs operation to improve theGovernment’s capacity to better address in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of ALMPs and set up a mechanism to better understand the heterogeneity of constraints facedby job-seekers. Key target groups for the operation at the time were work-able members of SSN beneficiary households and disadvantaged youth not served by SSN programs. Second, Government andsocial partners were interested in investing in new ways of boosting job creation at regionaland sector levels, including through value chains and frontier areas such as socialentrepreneurship and the solidarity economy (économie sociale et solidaire), underdiscussion at the time in the context of preparing the Five-Year Plan.In this context, the decision was made to focus TA activities on three series ofactivities, or components: (i) Jobs Profiling (Component 1); (ii) Assessing Job CreationOpportunities in Social Care (Component 2); and (iii) Policy Dialogue on the Role of SocialSafety Nets in Human Capital Development (Component 3). The following section summarizes the key list of activities completed under each component, outlines any changes from the Concept Note’s stage, and outlines key results. This section summarizes progress and achievements on Technical Assistance and Capacity Building deliverables by TA component between June 2016 and March 2017. In this regard, all deliverables laid out at the CN stage for the first phase have been delivered.  Réduire

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