Inclusive Employment – Special Focus of Local Governance in Uzbekistan

Content

• Trends in employment• Social partnership in employment: entry point

for enhancing CSOs role• Upstream interventions: Mainstreaming

gender and disability• Downstream interventions: supported

employment (social services) and sheltered employment (social enterprises)

Trends in employment

Trends in employment: some detailsTrends in employment: some details

• Employment in public sector : 60 % (early 1990-s) – 24 % (2000) – 20 % (2010)

• Employment of working-age: men – 73%, women - 64 %, persons with disabilities (PWD) – 5%

• Females in education, culture, art, science - 67.8 %, in public health, sports, social sector - 75.9 %

• Female students in a higher education - 40%

Trends in unemployment

Unemployment rate 5.4 %, among theregistered unemployed:

• 73.4% rural population

• 53% young people under 30

• More than 60% women

Programmes on new jobs creation and employment promotion

• Type: territorial/annual consolidated• Base: forecast of labor supply / demand• Issues:

- Gender/disability mainstreaming;

- Programming and impact assessment for different social groups;

- Mechanisms on CSOs involvement.

Improving EEEs of employment policies: participatory approach, RBM, HRBA

• Public Councils on Employment with CSOs involvement

• ICT tools for informed decision making, M&E

• New methodology of programmes development incl. gender & disability mainstreaming

• Capacity development: trainings, coaching on RBM and HRBA for decision makers

203/218 Employment services for vulnerable groups: State or NGO based?

Some of our actions:• Empowerment, Capacity

Development and Networking

• Support of the best ideas on providing NGO based social services

• Cost – benefit analysis of NGO based employment support social services

Issues:• Knowledge/expertise

• Motivation

• Beneficiaries’ Trust/Sympathy

• Flexibility

• Resources

Social Enterprises: some facts

• More than 2500 PwD (9% of all working PwD) are employed at Ses

• Profit tax exemptions for companies that are owned by DPOs, with at least 50% of PwD workers (but not for trading, intermediary, supply, marketing or procurement activities)

• No tax benefits for women SEs

Pilot models of SEs supported by UNDP

• NGO (Yunusabad, Millenium, Opa-Singillar, Deaf Association)

• Business (Rishtan)

• Government (Shakhrisabz)

• Business & Government (Samarkand)

• Business & Government & NGO (Djizak, Nukus)

Social Enterprises scale-up• Cost-benefit analysis & recommendations for

Government

• Capacity development

• Marketing and promotion activities

• Toolkit on starting and running SE

• Development of legislative framework

Thank you!

Inclusive Employment and Social Partnership ProjectUNDP Uzbekistan

yana.chicherina@undpaffiliates.orgSkype: yana_chicherina