UNDP and ILO help Moldova create workplaces

The Global Jobs Pact adopted by the International Labor Conference held in Geneva on June 19, 2009 urges the donor countries and multilateral agencies to consider providing funds, including through anti-crisis resources, to countries on lower incomes and with developing economies so that they adjust the economic and social policy documents to the recommendations of this global initiative, Ala Lipciu, national coordinator of the International Labor Organization (ILO), said during the public presentation of the Pact, Info-Prim Neo reports. The given presentation was considered timely now that the Government and representatives of civil society are drafting a national employment action plan for 2011, which will include the policies proposed by the Pact adjusted to the Moldovan realities. Ala Lipciu said the Government, in cooperation with the social partners and society in general, are to identity national 'niches' that could become sources of economic growth and of new workplaces, to work out viable projects that could be financed by donors. Lipciu enumerated the main proposals and suggestions of the Global Jobs Pact that should be analyzed in the process of formulating and implementing socioeconomic policies. They include provision of support to companies in creating and reestablishing workplaces through different instruments, including fiscal, improvement of the framework that regulates entrepreneurial abilities, offering of assistance to persons looking for a job and strengthening of the social protection systems. Many of the problems can be more efficiency solved by developing social dialogues at the central and local levels. Matilda Dimovska, Deputy Resident Representative of UNDP Moldova, said the UNDP agencies are cooperating with the ILO within the Global Jobs Pact for the first time. She voiced hope that this cooperation will help quicker overcome the consequences of the financial crisis. This result will be important for achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 and will be a proof that the UN family accepts the policies described in the Pact and will include them in its operational activities. Dimovska also said that the UNDP is implementing in Moldova a number of projects aimed at supporting the socially deprived groups of people, families on low incomes, the women, elderly persons and young people, the persons with special needs. According to her, the cooperation with the local partners, public authorities and NGOs enables to achieve results within these projects. She gave as example the creation of accommodation and recuperation centers for persons without a job, home and family support in villages.