Evaluation of the Maghreb Regional Training Programme - Indevelop

1 Introduction
Sida has commissioned an evaluation of the Maghreb Regional Training Programme,
“Development of Public Employment Services in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The
purpose of the evaluation is to provide Sida, Arbetsförmedlingen (The Swedish Employment
Service) and the partner organisations in the Maghreb region with information
and knowledge regarding the outcome and effects of the project, both in terms of
the regional training programme approach and concerning the country-specific follow
up interventions.
The Maghreb Regional Training Programme was elaborated during 2008 after a
series of consultations with partner organisations in the beneficiary countries. Project
implementation started in early 2009. Partners in the cooperation were:
the National Employment Agency (ANEM) in Algeria,
the National Skills and Job Promotion Agency (ANAPEC) in Morocco,
the National Agency for Employment and Independent Work (ANETI) in Tunisia,
and
Arbetsförmedlingen.
Representatives of Pôle-Emploi, the French public employment service, the ILO
and other international resource persons have also participated in the training events
organised by the project.
The project was organised as a regional and international training programme
complemented by tailored national follow-up activities to support the institutional
capacity development at the national level. Sida’s contribution to the cooperation was
SEK 6 300 000.
The project’s specific objective (or project purpose) was “to increase the institutional
capacity of the three agencies participating in the regional competence development
programme to provide assistance to selected target groups, i.e. young, highly
educated persons as well as members of vulnerable groups in the labour market
(women, handicapped and long-term unemployed)”.
The specific objective was expected to be achieved through five outcomes/outputs
that the project intended to produce. These were:
Methods and procedures for collection and analysis of labour market information
introduced and adapted to the national requirements.
Systems for labour market intermediation through web-based employment
services further developed, tested and approved.
Measures (programmes and instruments) reviewed, adapted and tested concerning
employment of individuals and vulnerable groups.
Increased level of cooperation at national level within each country among
stakeholders in the employment sector.
Mechanisms and instruments further developed for promotion of selfemployment
within the target group.
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