Moldova, Republic of
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- No
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- No
- A draft strategy already exists
- No
- Other (please specify)
- No
Countries with national action plans for youth employment
- Monitoring framework (timeline and activity/outcome indicators, e.g. youth labour market indicators)
- Yes
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- Yes
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- No
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
• Ministry of Finance • External partnersYouth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
• National Employment Program 2022–2026 – This program outlines specific measures to promote employment opportunities for various groups, including youth. • Youth Sector Development Strategy "Youth 2030" – This strategy sets long-term objectives and actions for youth development across multiple sectors. • Law No. 105/2018 on Employment Promotion and Unemployment Insurance – This law recognizes youth (especially those aged 16 to 24 from disadvantaged backgrounds, including orphans and those without parental care or under guardianship) as a vulnerable group at risk of social exclusion, and includes provisions for their support and integration into the labor market.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- No
Additional information:
Improve the inclusion of NEET in education and in the labour market. Improve the transition from school to work of youth trough: - Vocational training - On-the-job training - Traineeship - Supporting self-employmentCountries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
As part of its national strategic objectives, the Republic of Moldova has set a quantitative target to reduce the NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) rate from 30.4% in 2021 to 24.0% by 2026.Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- No
- Enterprise Development
- Yes
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Social partners' inclusion in the youth employment strategy
- Workers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Fully involved
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Consulted
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Fully involved
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Consulted
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- Yes
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- No
- Informed
- No
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: Have been created partnerships at local level for youth employment (LEP) with the support of ILO. _____________ 2024: Partnerships with ILO in implementation of LEI. ---------------- In order to identify young NEET, a partnership was developed between the Ministry and the National Youth Council of the Republic of Moldova. Within the pilot project financed by the ILO, the Council organized measures to identify NEET, recognize the reasons for their secondment to the labour market, ensure combined interventions to ensure social inclusion and increase their employment rate. A Local Employment Partnership (LEP) was created. It is an institutional innovation based on "negotiated" planning in which multiple local partners, concerned about the challenges in the labour market in the community, take on complementary and interconnected roles and responsibilities in order to develop some solutions adapted to local circumstances. The main goal of LEP is to create jobs and to promote the transition to formal employment. LEP is developed and implemented at the local level under the auspices of the Territorial Tripartite Commission for Consultations and Collective Bargaining (CTCNC), a social dialogue platform. The National Employment Agency is the institution that implements employment policies. Thus, since the 2018, NEA has developed partnerships with: - Collaboration agreement with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Moldova – the scope is effective partnership in delivering policies on the labor market. The Parties intend to jointly organize information and consultation activities of economic agents on labor market opportunities, to register job vacancies declared by economic agents, members of CCIRM, and provide support in the preselection and distribution of suitable candidates for declared vacancies. The parties will organize and participate in different active measures: seminars, round tables, conferences, job fairs, including on-line events, etc. Similarly, the collaboration agreement will provide the opportunity to identify and inform jobseekers who intend to start an entrepreneurial activity. - Collaboration agreement with the Institute of Education Sciences, the Republican Center for the Development of Vocational Education: the objectives of the agreement provide for the establishment of cooperation relations regarding the development and modernization of partnerships between economic agents and professional education institutions (vocational schools, colleges and centers of excellence), the creation of joint working groups for the promotion of dual education in the Republic of Moldova, promotion of good practices on the respective dimension. - The Parties will participate in the joint implementation of national and international projects, research grants, in order to increase the quality of initial and continuing training of qualified staff for the national economy and the promotion of vocational technical education. - Collaboration Agreement with the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Sociology and Social Assistance (USM): the scope of building and developing a continuous and effective partnership between the parties to realise employment policies by ensuring the labor market with well trained and trained specialists in line with labor market requirements.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- No
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Yes
Additional information:
2025: 1. The ILO collaborates with the Moldovan government to develop policies that support the integration of young people into the labor market. 2. Deutsche Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) - provides financial and technical support to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Moldova to assist in the integration of unemployed youth into the labor market, through the "Youth Employment Promotion in the Republic of Moldova" project. 3. EU4Youth programms - funded by European Union 4. The Council of Europe works in Moldova to support youth employment through various projects that promote youth inclusion and active citizenship. 5. The World Bank supports youth employment in Moldova through various programs aimed at improving skills, education, and economic opportunities for young people. _______________ 2024: ILO, supporting employment of vulnerable youth (women, NEETs). _____________________ 2023: ILO Moldova and GIZ Moldova provided support for the drafting National Program on Employment for the years 2022-2026. Also, support for the drafiing the new Law no. 1O5l 2018 the promotion of emptoyment and unemployment insurance. Also, ILO Moldova provided us support for piloting the active measures included in the mentioned Law, such as:vocationaltraining, subsidized employment, local initiatives. The ILO provided support for the development and piloting of the NEET youth identification procedure and quality standards for the accreditation of NEET youth identification service providers. _____________ 2022: ILO Moldova supported providing expertise during development of new employment promotion and unemployment insurance law, developing of National Employment Strategy, capacity building for implementing of developed employment policy documents. The ILO provided support for the development and piloting of the NEET Youth identification procedure and quality standards for the accreditation of NEET youth identification service providers.