Liberia
Overview of national employment policies
- Has national employment policy
- Yes
- Adoption of national employment policies
- 1ST revision in 2009
- Is the NEP under revision?
- No
Dialogue and stakeholders in the formulation process
- National
- Ministry in charge of economy/planning/finance
- Yes
- Ministry in charge of employment
- Yes
- Sectoral ministries
- Yes
- Trade unions
- Yes
- children
- -
- UN agencies
- Yes
- Other
- Yes
- text
- Other: development partners.
- Civil society groups, such as women or youth associations
- Yes
- Employers’ organisations
- Yes
- ILO
- Yes
- Regional
- No
- Local
- No
- N.A.
- -
Coordinating actor in formulating the employment policy
- Ministry in charge of employment/labour
- Yes
- Ministry in charge of economy/finance/planning
- -
- Sectoral ministry
- -
- Other
- -
- N.A.
- -
Employment policy goals
- Economic growth
- -
- Decent work
- -
- Employment as central to development strategy
- -
- Employment creation /promotion
- -
- Ensure equal opportunities / prevent discrimination in employment
- -
- Freely chosen employment
- -
- Full employment
- -
- Poverty reduction
- -
- Productive employment
- Yes
- Protection of workers' rights
- -
- Reduce unemployment
- -
- Reduce underemployment
- -
- Social inclusion
- -
- Environment/green jobs
- -
- Other
- -
- N.A.
- -
Additional information:
This Employment Policy is based on a two-pronged approach aimed at addressing the acute and severe shortage of productive employment that could potentially threaten our national security, while at the same time laying a sound foundation for sustained and high rates of productive employment for years to come.Strategic objectives
- Strategic objectives
- The impact of the crisis implies that emergency employment needs to remain high on our agenda for some years to come.
In recognition of this complex situation, this Employment Policy is based on a two-pronged approach aimed at addressing the acute and severe shortage of productive employment that could potentially threaten our national security, while at the same time laying a sound foundation for sustained and high rates of productive employment for years to come.
This Employment Policy document stresses the need to focus on:
a) Emergency Employment Schemes: scaling these up and coordinating them through Government.
b) Sustainable productive employment including improvements in relevant vocational training, building incentives in agricultural (especially in food crops) and promoting small and medium scale enterprises and the integration of informal economy activities into the formal economy.
Employment targets
- Employment opportunities
- Yes
- Adequate earnings and productive work
- Yes
- Decent hours
- -
- Work that should be abolished
- -
- Equal opportunity and treatment in employment
- -
- Social security
- -
- Social dialogue - Workers' and employers' representation
- -
- Other
- -
Additional information:
- creating approximately 120,000 jobs for the unemployed. - creating 250,000 productive jobs in the next five years (2009-2014) for new entrants into the labour force. - increasing productive employment for the 500,000 working poor people who despite efforts do not earn enough to live above the poverty line.Action plan for implementation
- National action plan
- -
- Subnational action plan
- -
Coordination framework
- NEP coordination framework?
- Yes
Monitoring indicators
- Employment opportunities
- -
- Adequate earnings and productive work
- -
- Decent hours
- -
- Work that should be abolished
- -
- Equal opportunity and treatment in employment
- -
- Social security
- -
- Social dialogue - Workers' and employers' representation
- -
- Other
- -
Target groups
- Youth
- Yes
- Women
- Yes
- Informal workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Older persons
- -
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Migrants workers
- Yes
- Other
- Yes
- N.A.
- -
- No target group
- -
Additional information:
Other: Conflict affected people (refugees, IDPs and ex-combatants).