The Government approved the plan of action for 2018 for implementing the national employment strategy for 2017-2021, IPN reports.

The assumed actions center on four priorities, namely: creation of formal non-discriminatory and productive employment opportunities; development of human capital for increased employment chances; better governance of the labor market, and realization of the migration potential for sustainable development. In practical terms, emphasis is placed on the creation of jobs at the central and local levels, fighting of undeclared labor, improvement of capacities for collecting and analyzing the labor market forecasts and data.

This way, the access to loans for SMES will be further facilitated by providing financial guarantees through the Loan Guarantee Fund. The businesses set up and managed by women will be supported financially through the pilot project “Women in Business”. There will be launched a program to support young entrepreneurs entitled “Start for the Youths”.

The creation of jobs in rural areas and small towns will be stimulated by implementing subsidization policies, including for young people and groups of agricultural producers, through the Moldova Agriculture Competitiveness Project. There will be diversified the forms of integrating migrants who returned home into the labor market, not only through the PARE 1+1 project.

Concessions will be offered to young medical and pharmaceutical specialists working in rural areas. There will be worked out a job vacancy statistics methodology in accordance with the EU norms. Greater support will be offered to volunteering activities and the cooperation between enterprises and education and research institutions will be more actively encouraged so as to also support the technology transfer.

The plan of action will be implemented at a cost of 1 204 010.9 lei.