Support for the Vocational Training and Employment Programs

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Loan No.:	361	Interest Rate:	4.5%
Beneficiary:	Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment, Tunisian Agency for Employment, Tunisian Agency for Vocational Training	Grace Period:	6 years
Project Cost:	K,D 14.6million.	Maturity:	22 years
Amount of Loan:	K.D 11,0 million.	Repayment:	33 semi-annual installments
Date of Loan Agreement:	6/12/1997	First Installment:	6 years following the first disbursement
Date of Effectiveness:

 

Objectives:

As part of the program for upgrading the sector of Vocational Training and Employment in Tunisia, the project aims at supporting the training and employment programs. The project will create additional job opportunities, improve social conditions, and strengthen the institutional setup of the Tunisian Agency for Employment and the Tunisian Agency for Vocational Training, which operate within the Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment, in order for them to undertake their programs with greater efficiency and effectiveness.

 

Description:

 

The project is expected to be completed by the end of the year 2001 and consists of the main following parts:

Part A: Supporting the programs of the Tunisian Agency for Employment. These include:

1. Programs for Professional Integration and Vocational Training: This aims at supporting the programs related to studying the training needs of about 100 business firms. It also aims at re-training of about 3,000 workers threatened with job loss, training and reintegrating of about 1,500 laid-off workers, and training about 900 holders of higher education degrees.

2. The National Fund for the Promotion of Handicrafts and Small Businesses: This consists of:

a) Training of small business managers: this comprises the training of about 2,700 laid-off workers or holders of higher education degrees; it aims at training them so that they can create their own businesses, and at covering the cost of training, including the trainees’ remuneration. This component also covers the costs of monitoring and supervising the activity of the first year of the small businesses that will be created pursuant to the project.

b) Financing small businesses: This includes the soft loans and grants provided by the government in order to create 2,250 small businesses in the field of handicrafts and traditional industries.

c) Assistance to the project-executing agencies: This assistance aims at covering the cost of training the officers employed by the Tunisian Agency for Employment who will be in charge of executing this part of the project, and at providing the agency with the services of experts as well as with office equipment, computers, computer software and means of transport as required for the execution of the project, including the creation of a data base on Model Projects.

 

Part B: Support of the programs of the Tunisian Agency for Vocational Training. This includes:

1. Creation of Centers for Vocational Training: this component aims at creating 3 centers for vocational training specialized in independent work. The project will cover the costs of buildings, equipment, means of transport. computer programs and training of trainers.

2. Supporting the training institutions in charge of creating the Centers for Vocational Training:  This component consists of covering the costs of studies of the training centers that should be provided by the project, the costs of the detailed studies needed to build the centers, of training the personnel who will be in charge of the centers, as well as their needs for experts, office equipment. computer software and means of transport, and other costs.

Part C: Supervision of the project’s implementation:

This consists of covering the expenses of the managerial units in the Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment, the Tunisian Agency for Employment and the Tunisian Agency for Vocational Training, including the costs of office equipment, computer software, means of transport, training experts, in addition to the costs of the mid-term final evaluations studies.

 

Financing:

The Fund’s loan represents about 75% of the total cost of the project. The Tunisian government will finance the remainder of the project cost.

 

 

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