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Add to Preferred SourcesAround 38,000 people in North Africa have so far benefited from measures to help them set up their own business or find a job and to create fair working conditions.
Paid employment is in short supply in North Africa. Approaches to creating more, and better, jobs range from support for agricultural start-ups to measures to improve job quality for workers and nationwide employment initiatives. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is working with national partners on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). And between 2015 and 2017, around 38,000 people found work as a result of these initiatives.
Unemployment among young people living in rural areas of Tunisia is more than 45 percent, so many young people leave for the cities or emigrate to Europe.
The employment initiative in Egypt also focuses on jobs for young people. GIZ and its partners are working to boost employment and improve working conditions as part of measures in the area of job placement and fair working conditions. The National Employment Pact, an initiative launched by Egyptian and German companies and the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is currently running four job centres. A total of 6,000 young people found work through the centres between 2015 and 2017. In addition, GIZ supports innovation competitions, in which employees submit ideas for improvements. Through these and other activities, it has enhanced working conditions for around 11,000 Egyptians since 2015.
Original source: GIZ
Published on 24 January 2019