STRENGTHEN2
Employment impact assessment to maximize job creation in Africa
Duration
1 August 2020 - 30 April 2025
Budget
€6,420,000
Development partner(s)
European Union
Reference
GLO/20/19/EUR
Contact
Project team: STRENGTHEN2@ilo.org
Additional details
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Given the high levels of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, rising inequalities in many countries, growing population and high levels of inequality, unemployment and underemployment, in particular among young people and women, more and better jobs are an absolute necessity in the region.
The STRENGTHEN2 project, hosted in the EMPINVEST branch of the ILO’s Employment Policy Department, is a joint initiative of the European Union and the ILO that focuses on job creation through investments. Launched in August 2020, the project is a strategic partnership with the overall goal of leveraging employment impact assessments to promote the creation of more and better jobs in sub-Saharan African countries.
The project pursues two objectives:
- To enhance the capacity to assess the employment outcomes of EU-funded investments and programmes in sub–Saharan African partner countries.
- To support African partner countries and EC services to design and finance investments and programs with a relatively rich employment content.
STRENGTHEN2 is scheduled to end in April 2025 and builds on earlier ILO work, more concretely, efforts undertaken as part of the now concluded first STRENGTHEN project. The project collaborates closely with the Mainstreaming Employment into Trade and Investment in the Southern Neighbourhood project (METI), which covers related issues for countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Methodologies in brief
Methodological papers
Credit guarantee schemes, MSME access to finance and labour productivity in Africa
A Brief Review of Input-Output Approaches to Employment Impact Assessment
How to measure the employment impact of guarantees
Credit guarantees: SME access to finance and employment in Africa
Employment impact assessments in Africa: Application and suitability of local multiplier analysis
The enhancement of input-output based employment assessment tools for EU operations in sub-Saharan Africa
The use of GIS in employment impact assessments
Employment Impact Assessments Reports
Road projects
Partner Countries
News and Events
- Rwanda – leveraging EmpIA and EII
- Côte d’Ivoire – focus on employment in development policies
- Senegal – building technical capacity of national actors
- Cameroon – institutionalization of EmplAs
- Malawi – highlight of the importance of EmplAs
- Namibia – focus on EmpIA models
- Cameroon – EmplA needs
- Malawi – awareness-raising and technical training on EmpIAs
- Zambia – advanced training on EmpIA
The ILO organized a series of workshops with IFIs in order to exchange best practices and improve methodologies for measuring indirect employment impacts of financial institutions’ operations.
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