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Lot 9 - Culture, Education, Employment and Social


JOB / DESCRIPTION DU TRAVAILLE


POSITION:

Key experts available for short or medium term assignments


COUNTRY / PAYS: Worldwide


STARTING DATE / DATE DE DEMARRAGE: n/a 

DURATION / DUREE:
short/medium term


GENERAL OBJECTIVE / OBJECTIVE GENERAL:

A. Culture
1. Culture (development policies, intercultural dialogue, cultural heritage, audio-visual, cultural industries and tourism)

B. Education (formal and non-formal)
2. Early childhood education (Pre-school education)
3. Primary education (All elementary and first cycle systematic instruction for children)
4. Secondary education (Second cycle systematic instruction at both junior and senior levels)
5. Higher education (Degree and diploma programmes at universities, colleges and polytechnics; scholarships)
6. Basic life skills for youth and adults (including literacy and numeracy training)
7. Education sector analysis, reform and management (Education sector policy, financing, planning and programming; aid to education ministries, administration and management systems; institutional capacity assessment and building; school management and governance; curriculum and materials development)

B. Vocational Education and Training - VET (formal and non-formal)
8. Elementary vocational training, secondary level technical education and advanced technical training9. VET sub-sector analysis, reform and management (including analysis and measures to
strengthen the links between VET and the Labour market and to promote involvement of the private sector)

C. Labour Market and Employment (formal and non-formal)
10. Structure and characteristics of the labour force (Labour force participation and trends; Characteristics of job seekers and job search procedures; Industrial, occupational, age, qualification and gender structure of employment and trends; Gender and regional growth of employment and trends; Part-time employment, short-term contracts and hours of work; Self employment and employment in family enterprises; Employment in the public sector; Employment projections)
11. Labour market settings/management, employment services and offices (Employment offices; Market share of public employment offices; Private employment offices; Other mechanisms of intermediation)
12. Wage policy and labour market (Collective/sector agreements/conventions; Wages, productivity, inflation and unemployment; Changes in labour remuneration, productivity and unit labour costs in manufacturing and other sectors of the economy; Public/private sector salaries; Flexibility of labour remuneration in relation to productivity and unemployment; Efficiency of the process of wage determination)
13. Social dialogue (Main statutes and laws governing industrial relations; Structure and organisation of labour unions; Labour-union participation; The employers’ organisations; Collective bargaining and collective agreements; Industrial action and procedures for resolving industrial disputes)
14. Job creation (Incidence of job loss on various groups; Labour mobility and turnover)

D. Use of Information and Knowledge Economy
15. Use of Information and Knowledge Economy

E. Social Inclusion and Protection (formal and informal)
16. Social situation and impact analysis
17. Social policy institutions and their management
18. Pension policy, legislation, systems and reform
19. Social inclusion and assistance policies and systems (Subsidies, cash transfers, special programmes for vulnerable and marginal groups e.g. the elderly, the disabled, female headed households, orphans, street children, …)

F. Poverty
20. Poverty analysis and monitoring (including Millennium Development Goals and Poverty Reduction Strategies, stakeholder and final beneficiary analysis)


PARTICULAR PURPOSE, APPLICATION SERVICES AND EXPECTED RESULTS / OBJECTIVES PARTICULIERS, SERVICES DEMANDES ET RÉSULTATS A ATTEINDRE:



QUALIFICATION


As a minimum, the expertise is required to cover the entire project cycle:
a. programme / project identification and preparation / formulation,
b. programme / project implementation,
c. preparation of Terms of Reference (services) and technical annexes (works, supplies) and evaluation of offers (Procurement),
d. evaluation of grant proposals (only for lots 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
e. evaluations (ex-ante, interim, ex-post etc.), monitoring as well as a number of horizontal aspects:
f. (Cross-) sectoral policies and reforms,
g. Macroeconomics,
h. Public financial management
i. legislation, regulations and law enforcement,
j. approximation of legislation,
k. institutional building,
l. training and research,
m. awareness-raising, (incl. information and communication)

SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE / EXPÉRIENCE SPÉCIFIQUE:

WORK LANGUAGE / LANGUE DE TRAVAIL:

APPLY / POSTULER


DATE LINE / DATE LIMITE:
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