Table 6 Main Policy Instruments for Improving service delivery
From: A reform agenda for improving the delivery of ALMPs in the MENA region
Develop results-based Public Private Partnerships | Develop results-based M&E frameworks | Promote high-end entrepreneurship, OJT, and life skills training among job seekers | Promote systems and program integration |
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• Subcontract with private providers using performance-based contracts (based on placement rates) for provision of training and intermediation services | • Adopt proper results-based M&E systems and ensure proper financing for periodic program evaluation. | • Develop training on entrepreneurship awareness. | • Promote one-stop shops for ALMPs, unified registry, program consolidation. |
• Use information and communication technologies to foster intermediation | • Pilot and evaluate programs before scaling up nationally. | • Facilitate access to finance | • Use ALMPs as graduation/exit strategies for existing safety net programs. |
• Develop training programs in close coordination with the private sector (focus on soft skills) | • Conduct periodic social audits and user satisfaction surveys. | • Develop programs to enhance the productivity of potential self-employed workers (e-lancing, provision of market information, etc.) | • Establish inter-ministerial committees/task forces on employment programs (centrally and regionally) and involve the private sector |
• Liberalize and ease regulation bottlenecks for the provision of private intermediation services (e.g., in Tunisia) |  |  |  |
• Develop national qualification frameworks and proper and periodic accreditation systems for providers |  | • Broaden the focus of existing training programs to include both OJT and life skills training |  |