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Egypt Youth Employment: Economic Empowerment under FORSA programme

eval_number:

2343352

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2343352

location:

country:

Egypt

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Egypt Youth Employment: Economic Empowerment under FORSA programme

recommendations:

date:

2025-01-27 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Constituents

category:

Government - capacity building

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comments:

See action plan comments

action_plan:

1- On the National level, the ILO Cairo office is currently engaged with MoL and various partners from the government of Egypt as well as Employers and workers organisations to prepare the Employment Strategy for Egypt. This Document would represent for the social partners as well as the development partners a framework to guide future interventions. 2- On the Programmatic level with MoSS, though the National FORSA programme had an ambitious target for wage employment that was proved difficult to achieve for several reasons: a. The reluctance of Job seekers to work in formal decent jobs in order not to lose the cash transfer assistance and they opted to work in the informal sector. b. The limited private sector existing in upper Egypt c. The geographical remoteness of the available jobs d. The target beneficiaries, female dominant, refused to take those jobs e. The low skills of FORSA beneficiaries ( Male and Female) to join the limited available jobs Targets needs to be realistic and based on the beneficiaries’ potential Hence, any future programme design will take into consideration the self-employment rather than wage employment. All project results, findings have been shared with MoSS for future programmes a request for a meeting with the relevant official to extend the ILO technical assistance. JSC and Job Fairs are planned to be led by other Government entities as well as Civil societies but to different target groups.

management_response:

Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

DWT/CO-Cairo

title:

Rec 1. Continue supporting the Government of Egypt, particularly the Ministry of Labour, to support (decent) job creation processes and (local) private sector development. The wage-employment track was hindered by the general absence of suitable, formal jobs in the two governorates. While the trainings created enhanced employability skills, the jobs offered through fairs were often rejected by (female) beneficiaries due to the distance, working hours, and wages. In the future, efforts to enhance access to wage-employment should be either 1) focused in areas with higher levels of (decent) work vacancies (especially for women) that was identified from in-depth market research at the beginning of implementation, or 2) combined with/preceded by initiatives to support private sector development and job creation in female dominated sectors. At the same time, broader efforts of ILO Cairo should also focus on (decent) job creation and quality of jobs, given that the government is already planning to continue the JSCs and job fairs. Such support should focus on private sector development and opportunities for business developed (e.g. through continued Get Ahead and SYIB efforts) This furthermore requires coordination and division of roles between MoL and MoSS, given that MoSS has taken on various job-related responsibilities under the EYE:FORSA project.

project_symbols:

EGY/20/01/NOR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/2343451

information_source:

Country Office

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