Togo: The ANPE makes professional integration the focus of a meeting and exchange.
The National Agency for Employment Promotion (ANPE) in Togo is holding, since December 7, 2022, at the Hotel Concorde in Lomé, a workshop to finalize the national program of vocational integration of reference. This meeting, which will benefit from the expertise of the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ITC/ILO), will enable the actors of the employment-training ecosystem and the social partners to examine and refine the programme in order to align it with the expected employment objectives.
Despite the various mechanisms and employability programmes put in place by the Togolese government to support the professional integration of young people and first-time job seekers, the issue of employment and unemployment management remains a challenge.
The national programme for professional integration, which has been the subject of a finalisation workshop in Lomé since 7 December 2022, is one of the innovative employment activation measures proposed to try to resolve this problem.
Its finalisation, following an inclusive approach, will enable its content to be improved in line with good practices and international standards.
Thus, for three days, the participants, including representatives of trade unions and international workers’ organisations, actors in vocational training, the education system and the State, will go through the various components of the document with a fine-tooth comb in order to appropriate it and make proposals for its improvement. The aim is also to define the role and contribution of each actor to ensure the effective implementation of this reference programme.
According to the Director General of the ANPE, Mr. Kossi Tsiglo, this reference programme developed by the ANPE, in consultation with the Ministry of Public Service and Social Dialogue, includes active adjustment measures on the labour market, to support young people in their transition from school to work.
The aim is to have an inclusive and well thought-out document that meets international standards, but also good practices in the sub-region, and whose implementation will help to alleviate the problem of unemployment and underemployment in Togo.
Miss OLY
