This document summarizes an EU Twinning Project aimed at building the capacity of employment support services in Georgia. It discusses the importance of employment and the core functions of public employment services, including providing labor market information and brokerage services. The project will work to revise Georgia's legal framework around equal employment opportunities and the structure of its employment support services agency to better manage the labor market. It will also establish a labor market information management system and provide training to the agency's human resources to modernize Georgia's employment support services in line with EU standards and strategies.

1. EU Twinning Project “Capacity Building of the Employment Support
Services of Georgia”
Public Employment Services and future challenges, Twinning project
structure and work plan
Mr Tibor Bors Borbély-Pecze, PhD.
Resident Twining Adviser to Georgia
Tbilisi, 7th of October 2015

2. Why employment support services?
• Wage-work is a key element of the citizen's life
• it designs our time schedule
• also defines lifestyle
• contributes to labour market productivity
• determines values in a society
• supports social inclusion
• correlates with physical and mental health

3. The core functions of the Public Employment
Service (PES)
• Information: PES offers a unique and usually nation-wide service as providers of
labour market information. The information they provide includes extensive data on
vacancies and potential applicants. They assist people choosing a new career, and
those wanting to re-focus their career perspectives. They provide information on
training and retraining opportunities.
• Brokerage: Brokerage services are the core business of all PESs. Over time these
services have been developed in a variety of specific forms catering form the
differentiated needs of jobseekers and employers with vacancies. They range from
fully open presentation of vacancies to more selective mediation between jobseekers
and employers, and from quick job matching procedures to intensive job search
assistance.
• Market adjustment: A distinctive feature of Public Employment Services is their dose
involvement in implementing labour market policies which help to adjust
mismatches between supply and demand.
"MODERNISING PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
TO SUPPORT THE EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENTSTRATEGY COM(1998)641 Brussels, 13.11.1998

4. Therefore a well-established public employment
services has (from the EU perspective)
A. Strategic performance management
B. Designed of operational processes
C. Sustainable activation and management of transitions
D. Relations with Employers
E. Evidence-based design and implementation of PES
services
F. Management of partnerships and stakeholders
G. Allocation of PES Resources
EU PES 2020 bench-learning process

5. Project components
1. The revision of the Georgian Legal Framework of equal opportunities
legislation related to employment in line with …. the Association
Agreement;
2. The revision of the structure and functions of the SSA employment
component to reflect its expanded role in the labour market
management processes,
3. The establishment and full functioning of a comprehensive Labour
Market Information Management System (WorkNet Information
System),
4. Human resource development within the ESS, employment component
of the Social Service Agency of Georgia
5. Modern communication strategy and PR for employment support
services

6. Gantt Chart Sept. 2015-Jan. 2017

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