Poverty, employment and skills

Category: Poverty, employment and skills

Unlocking female economic potential – beyond gender boundaries

The objective of this action is to empower and enable women to reach their full potential in the labor market, with a particular focus on productivity.

Specific objectives include:

To identify drivers of low female participation in the labor market and female productivity, by producing evidence and generating knowledge;
To emphasize the importance of decent jobs, a stimulative environment, working conditions, and systemic support as drivers of productivity and women’s potential, by piloting measures at “Comfy Angel” and in collaboration with the business sector;
To stimulate policy dialogue among relevant stakeholders (policymakers, business sector, Federation of Trade Unions);
To advocate for policies that enable decent jobs and a stimulative environment that will boost female productivity.

Donor: British Embassy in Skopje

Assessment of the findings of the pilot-measure “Make declared work attractive to employers and workers”

The objective of the project is to assess findings from the pilot measure “Make declared work attractive to employers and workers”, nest them into the Macedonian legal and economic context and propose solutions supporting transition to formality.

Client: International Labor Organization

Roadmaps on Western Balkan Labor Market Policies Database Alignment with the EU and Capacity Building to WB Partners

The project’s goal is to evaluate the discrepancy between Western Balkan economies’ current practices and the methodology of EU LMP Statistics and offer roadmaps to the key stakeholders for harmonization with the EU practices.

Donor / Client: Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)

Partners: WEBecon members, led by the founding member CREDI

А sustainable design of policies related to multi-dimensional child poverty

The objective of the project is to increase capacities of the State Statistical Office for multidimensional child-poverty routine measurement and monitoring, to establish a multi-dimensional stakeholder mechanism for designing more coherent policies and to increase stakeholders’ knowledge and awareness for the importance of multi-dimensional policy approach.

Donor: UNICEF

Duration: July 2023 – March 2024

Action on the move: Monitoring, assessment and proposals for anti-crisis measures in conditions of a tight budget

The general goal of the action is to analyze and monitor budget spending for anti-crisis measures, at the national and local level, and to propose modification and/or new measures in conditions of an emphasized need for rationalization of public money spending.

Knowledge, measures and policy dialogue for child protection from the food and energy crisis

The primary objective of the project is to generate evidence about the impact of the food and energy crisis on overall and child poverty, as well as food and energy poverty, which will be used as a background for designing a roadmap for policy measures at national level.

Donor: UNICEF

Duration: December 2023 – March 2024

Open Balkan: Free regional movement of labor in conditions of shortage of qualified workers?

The goal of the project is to assess how the free movement of (skilled) labor in the Open Balkan Initiative will affect the labor market in North Macedonia, and thus to encourage a reasoned debate and adjustment of policies to maximize benefits and minimize risks.

Specific objectives include:

Generating knowledge about how the free movement of (skilled) labor included in the Open Balkan Initiative will affect the labor market in the country;
Encouraging evidence-based public debate about the benefits and challenges of the issue;
Contribution to economic policies related to the labor market and bilateral social security agreements, in the context of the implementation of the requirements of this Initiative.

Donor: Foundation Open Society Macedonia

Duration: September 2022 – September 2023

An initiative for a more inclusive democracy for marginalized groups

The initiative aims to make participatory democracy more inclusive for young people, women and displaced persons (including refugees, immigrants and internally displaced persons).

In-depth analysis of the multidimensional child poverty in North Macedonia

The overarching goal of the analysis is to generate an in-depth map about the various facets of child poverty and establish sound and thorough empirical evidence.

Follow-up to the assessment of the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on children

The goal of the follow-up to the assessment of the social and economic impact of COVID-19 on children, is to generate scenarios and expanded policy proposals in a situation where it is certain that this will be a protracted crisis, both from a health and from a socio-economic perspective, and where we can verify the validity of the initial assumptions of its nature and duration.

Client: UNICEF