EU Expert Meeting on Employment, TVET and Social Protection

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EU Expert Meeting on Employment, TVET and
Social Protection
EU Expert Meeting on Employment, TVET and
Social Protection
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Implementing the Council Conclusions on
employment the contribution of the European
Commission
EU Expert Meeting on Employment, TVET and
Social Protection
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Developments since last meeting
EU Expert Meeting on Employment, TVET and
Social Protection

• April 2007 Approval of EC Staff Working Document
  'Promoting Employment through EU Development
  Cooperation
• June 2007 Approval of Council Conclusions

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Current initiatives
EU Expert Meeting on Employment, TVET and
Social Protection

• Country level
• - Focal area and mainstreaming
• - Study "Employment and decent work in EU
  external assistance"
• - Regional training seminars on decent work
• ? Feed into new programming guidelines on
  employment

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EU-Africa joint strategy
EU Expert Meeting on Employment, TVET and
Social Protection

• Initiative on Migration, Mobility and Migration
• Flagship initiative to be launched at the
  EU-Africa Lisbon Summit in December
• Prominent place in the first joint Action Plan
  (2008-2009)

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Investing in People 2007-13 (1/3)
EU Expert Meeting on Employment, TVET and
Social Protection

• Supplementary instrument to country programmes
• To support activities at the regional and global
  levels

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Investing in People 2007-13 (2/3)
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Social Protection

• Interventions 2007
• Support for the development and effective
  application of decent work indicators
• Interventions 2008
• Support for promotion of good practice on
  strengthening labour market information systems
• Support for advocacy, awareness raising
  initiatives and campaigns, policy studies,
  technical assistance/capacity building,
  conferences and workshops to exchange good
  practice and experience with the implementation
  of the decent work agenda and promotion of social
  cohesion

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Investing in People 2007-13 (3/3)
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Social Protection

• Financial allocation

• DCI perspective 2007 2013 1.060 billion
• Health (55) Education (12) Gender (5 )
  Other (21) Contingency and Administration (7)
• 6-9 will go to employment, decent work and
  social cohesion

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Other issues
EU Expert Meeting on Employment, TVET and
Social Protection

• Decent work Conference 24-25 January
• Follow-up report to the decent work Communication