Luanda - The Council of Ministers on Wednesday in Luanda approved the National Employment Agenda, a document that sets out the guidelines for coordinated action by the different players, both public and private, in the field of promoting employment.
The document from the Ministry of Public Administration, Labour and Social Security (MAPTSS) was approved by the Council of Ministers at a session led by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço.
The document aims to reduce the unemployment rate in the national economy, with a view to bridging the imbalance between labour demand and supply and promoting an improvement in the redistribution of national income and the reduction of regional asymmetries.
The National Employment Agenda is of great importance for combating poverty and keeping people in their places of origin and is the result of a consultation process based on a diagnosis of the situation and prospects for the development of employment in Angola.
The document received contributions that were systematised into recommendations from the participants, including a confederation of youth associations, some political party youth associations, associations representing workers and businesspeople.
It also received contributions from the Episcopal Conference of Angola and São Tomé (CEAST), the Council of Christian Churches in Angola (CICA) and the Provincial Governors.
The Public Administration, Labour and Social Security minister, Teresa Dias, said that it was necessary to have a mechanism that brings together employability initiatives at the level of other ministerial departments, public entities, as well as programmes that aim to bring the dynamics of improving demand and supply to employability and not have repeated actions.
She explained that until now there had been various entrepreneurship activities, for example MAPTSS gives out professional kits and at the same time other ministries carry out actions along the same lines and sometimes with the same format.
She said that this agenda would allow all sectors of the country to have their own programmes and fit into the employability plan and promote it in a single area and direction.
She also said that, the mechanisms will be created to help improve this process.
Teresa Dias said that at MAPTSS level there is already a National Labour Directorate, which has a National Employment Observatory, which means that it is already able to calibrate the best employability policies from the point of view of supply and demand.
Associated with this agenda, there is a financial arm which is the National Employment Fund, which has already been approved.
The idea is to create programmes, monitor their implementation with results at scale, so employability accelerators will be created.
In terms of financial support, the National Employment Fund already has a budget in place for 2024, with the aim of guaranteeing the start-up of some accelerator activities in the employment rate. PA/OHA/DAN/DOJ
