EMPLOYMENT PROMOTION

This key subject area is being developed within the framework of the PIDS Project “Andean Subregional Employment Promotion Program” -  Decision 601.

Justification

Although employment generation depends basically on economic growth and the technological characteristics of the production sectors responsible for that growth, it is possible to design policy instruments that will improve the relationship between labor supply and demand, promote specific production activities that have a greater capacity to create jobs than others, identify job and income generating possibilities to be found in resolving Community problems and needs, and raise the productivity and income generating levels of small-scale production activities, etc.  An exchange of successful experiences with these and other initiatives could make a considerable contribution to the store of instruments and policy measures available to formulate national employment promotion policies. 

Furthermore, the gradual formulation of an Andean subregional framework of employment promotion policies could be highly useful as a common reference point for formulating and building up national employment promotion policies in a context of growing economic interdependence brought on by the advance of Andean integration.

Objective

Collect, evaluate and systematically organize the experiences of the Member Countries in this area and establish a Community framework to boost the formulation of employment promotion policies, with special emphasis on the informal urban sector and the promotion of micro, small and medium-size enterprises.

Lines of work 

i.      Orchestrate an exchange among Andean countries of successful experiences with national employment promotion policies and programs, including national systems of cooperatives.   

ii.          Step-up Andean mutual technical cooperation among the subregion’s Labor Ministries.

iii.           Within the framework of the Andean Regional Employment Conferences initiative, foster a subregional debate on the coordination of economic and social policies in order to support the formulation of employment policies conceived as State policies.

iv.          Promote tripartite social dialogue within the context of the Simón Rodríguez Convention, in order to produce consensual initiatives for increasing employment sources that offer decent jobs.

v.     Further increased intersector and inter-Ministry coordination within the subregion for the purpose of strengthening the role of Labor Ministries as the guiding bodies for national employment policies.

vi.    Ensure the active participation of the Advisory Council of Labor Ministers and of the Andean Labor and Business Advisory Councils in the formulation of a future decision on Andean employment promotion.

vii.    Foster the involvement of the labor and business sectors in the design, execution and evaluation of national policies to reactivate production and promote employment