Sierra Leone
Overview of national employment policies
- Has national employment policy
- Yes
- Adoption of national employment policies
- 1ST revision in 2015
- Is the NEP under revision?
- No
Dialogue and stakeholders in the formulation process
- National
- No
- 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.
- -
Additional information:
Ministry of Labour and Social Security.Employment policy goals
- Economic growth
- Yes
- Decent work
- Yes
- Employment as central to development strategy
- -
- Employment creation /promotion
- Yes
- Ensure equal opportunities / prevent discrimination in employment
- -
- Freely chosen employment
- -
- Full employment
- -
- Poverty reduction
- Yes
- Productive employment
- Yes
- Protection of workers' rights
- -
- Reduce unemployment
- -
- Reduce underemployment
- -
- Social inclusion
- -
- Environment/green jobs
- -
- Other
- Yes
- N.A.
- -
Additional information:
The goal of rapid and sustained employment growth is consistent with the development priorities of the Government to stimulate and maintain rapid economic growth, reduce poverty and promote sustainable development, as expressed in the ‘Agenda for Change’. This goal is elaborated in the main objectives of the National Employment Policy which are as follows: - Provide productive and adequately remunerative employment opportunities and improve working conditions (decent work) for all who are available and willing to work, including vulnerable groups, within the framework of the overall national development process; - Provide an enabling macroeconomic and sectoral policy environment for employment-generating investments - Promote the development of the private sector in the formal economy to become a major source of new productive employment and income-earning opportunities; - Improve skills development through the expansion of demand-driven Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) including entrepreneurial training, especially among young men and women, to enhance employability in the labour market and increase labour productivity in both the formal and informal sectors of the economy; - Promote the use of labour-intensive technologies in public works programmes and local economic development to create employment and sustainable livelihoods for vulnerable groups in both urban and rural sectors of the economy. Care has to be taken to manage the development dilemma based on the fact that the adoption of labour intensive technique will promote employment but will retard growth and the adoption of capital intensive technique will promote growth but will retard employment expansion; - Improve and strengthen the legal and institutional framework for labour administration including labour market monitoring and employment policy implementation.Strategic objectives
- Strategic objectives
- Four Pillars for Action:
Pillar 1: Macroeconomic Policy Framework: Linking Employment with Economic Growth;
Pillar 2: Labour Market policies: Skills Development and Matching Skills with Jobs;
Pillar 3: Private Sector Development: Stimulating investment in enterprise and job creation;
Pillar 4: Local Economic Development: District development programmes and job creation.
Employment targets
- 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
- -
Action plan for implementation
- National action plan
- -
- Subnational action plan
- -
Coordination framework
- NEP coordination framework?
- NA
Monitoring indicators
- Employment opportunities
- Yes
- Adequate earnings and productive work
- Yes
- Decent hours
- Yes
- Work that should be abolished
- -
- Equal opportunity and treatment in employment
- -
- Social security
- Yes
- Social dialogue - Workers' and employers' representation
- Yes
- Other
- Yes
Additional information:
Key performance indicators (disaggregated by age, gender, locality and sector such as agriculture, Mining to name the first two prominent sectors) to assess: - Number of jobs created; - Reduction in unemployment and underemployment; - Number of people trained in specific or required skills (carpentry, masonry, welding, plumbing to list a few), by educational level attained, age, sex and locality; - Number of job seekers matched with employers, growth in number of enterprises in the formal, MSME and informal sector; - Growth in GDP and sector production figures; - Number of administrative regions and districts covered with employment promotion projects and the number of people it has benefited in terms of jobs and training; - Real increase in wages through tripartite dialogue; - Collective bargaining agreements reached, number of enterprises that have improved working conditions as a result of the NEP-AP; - Number of youth and women employment projects initiated and successfully implemented; - Number of people sensitised and number of advocacy schemes on HIV/AIDS and worst form of child labour; - Number of enterprises implementing decent work environment schemes; - Number of entrepreneurs who accessed credit; - Proportion of women who accessed credit; - Number of youth who accessed credit; - Minimum wage; - Number of business cooperatives/groups formed; - Amount of credit accessed by age, sex and locality; - Number of credit/financial services established; - Interest rate charged on loans by these credit/financial institutions; - Number of persons with working contracts; - Number of persons in casual employment; - Number of workers benefiting from injury compensation; - Number of working persons with medical allowances.Target groups
- Youth
- Yes
- Women
- Yes
- Informal workers
- -
- Rural workers
- -
- Older persons
- -
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Migrants workers
- -
- Other
- -
- N.A.
- -
- No target group
- -