Employment Impact Assessment
2021-03-16
(Above)- Participants to the Employment Impact Assessment Course which took place in Windhoek.
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Presented to the Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation, Namibia, the purpose of the course was to impart practical knowledge, skills and competence to varying stakeholders in all industries needed to improve the design and implementation of policies intended to promote job creation through identification, measuring and assessing the employment effects of economic, sectoral, trade-related or labour market policies.
Theme
"Improving the credibility and effectiveness of policy response".
Course objectives
The course was designed to enable participants to be able to:
- Make informed decisions about how to best measure and evaluate the results of interventions to promote decent jobs for women and men
- Advise on policy design in particular focus on vulnerable groups as youth, rural populations and informal workers.
- Carry out an effective employment impact assessment
- Identify the most suitable method to assess a given type of employment promotion intervention
- Share the knowledge and skills learnt with others in their workplace.
Relevance
Offered to the Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation, was designed to contribute to improving the effectiveness of policy response to enable the creation of decent jobs in Namibia through building the knowledge and skills of the ministry employees to identify, measure and assess the effects on employment of economic, sectoral, trade-related and labour market policies.
Validity of the Design
The course was well timed as it is during the times of unemployment crisis currently facing Namibia. The unemployment rate in the country was reported at 21.68 percent in 2021, a 2.4% average annual increase and marked the third consecutive increase of the unemployment rate.
Effectiveness
The training was organized and presented through sustained instructions designed to communicate a combination of experience, knowledge, skills and understanding of valuable real scenarios of life to ensure the attainment of objectives. Practitioners were introduced to new legal requirements and new tools to effective assessment to aid decisions and interventions. Case studies along with the results of interventions were useful tools for delivery of EIA course.