Project Title: MAKING ACTIVE LABOR MARKET POLICIES WORK: INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES AND THEIR IMPLICATION FOR ARMENIA
Project time period: 2020-2021
Project Description:
The objective of the project is to assist the Government of Armenia in evidence-based policy design for improving the existing ALMPs and designing new ones for young people and 1st time labor entrants. It examines the Armenian labor market, especially in the regions of Armenia and broadly assesses the current labor market conditions, both long-term and short-term productivity and skills mismatch for selected regions and industries.
Based on this analysis, recommendations are provided on a) effectiveness and efficiency of the existing ALMPs; and b) policies best suiting labor market conditions of Armenia, based on international experience.
Project Scope:
- Training: Consists of targeted training programs including institutional, workplace and integrated training and special support for apprenticeships.
- Job rotation and job sharing: Includes measures that promote the full substitution of an employee by an individual (unemployed or not) from another target group for a fixed period. Job sharing schemes include all measures that encourage the partial substitution of employees by an individual (unemployed or not) from another target group.
- Employment incentives: Includes recruitment and employment maintenance incentives.
- Supported employment and rehabilitation: Consists of subsidies for the hiring of individuals with a long-term or permanently reduced capacity to work, and for the vocational rehabilitation of people with a reduced working capacity.
- Direct job creation: Includes measures aimed to create additional jobs for the long-term unemployed or individuals otherwise difficult to place. Jobs created are usually of community benefit and are usually located in the public or non-profit sectors. This should not include support for lifetime protected work in a non-productive environment.
- Start-up and innovation incentives: Includes measures that encourage entrepreneurship among unemployed and other target groups.
- Self-employment support: Providing means of production (such as facilities, machinery, tools, infrastructural capital and natural capital) to individuals or other solutions
Project Title: DEVELOPING LOCAL MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLANNING GUIDELINES AND TRAINING NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR IMPLEMENTING SUCH GUIDELINES
Project time period: 2020-2021
Project Description:
The overall objective is to assist regional and local authorities in planning and implementing solid waste management.
• Developing guidelines for local waste management, including planning for prevention and minimization, sorted-collection, reuse, recycling, and safe disposal of solid waste in communities as well as standards for cost calculation and recovery
• Assess training needs for local, regional, and national authorities in developing MSW management and landfill plans using developed guidelines
Project scope:
- The projects aim to conduct research on:
- International practices in:
- Guidelines for local solid waste management planning
- Guidelines and standards for solid waste management cost calculation aiming at full cost recovery based on the polluters pay principle
- Conduct a RA legislative and institutional review to identify challenges and opportunities for mandating, adopting, and implementing guidelines on local solid waste management planning
- Conduct multi-stakeholder engagement with local, regional, and national government agencies in charge of municipal solid waste management to optimize guidelines to meet MSW objectives and targets
- Assess the regional or local level training needs for developing SWM plans Based on international best practice and multi-stakeholder input,
- The Local MSW Management Planning Guidelines offers a graduated and phased approach to ensure that municipalities can build up capacity to properly implement the waste management planning guidelines.
Project Title: THE IMPACT OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC ON THE LABOR MARKET IN ARMENIA
Project time period: 2020-2021
Project Description:
The objective is to assist the Government of Armenia in evidence-based policy-making to analyze the ongoing changes and predict the upcoming ones in the labor market to design effective response mechanisms.
Project scope:
The research focuses on the Armenian labor market and aimed at assessing:
- The possible impact of the economic recession on the labor market (preferably disaggregated into sectors and/or labor force groups) in terms of job losses
- The impact of the pandemic on the transformation of jobs
Deliverables
- General Overview of the impact the coronavirus pandemic on the global economy and labor market
- Assessment of the pandemic on the Armenian labor market
- Policy actions to mitigate the effects of the pandemic