Presentation by Ekaterina TRAVKINA, Manager, OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance from the OECD capacity building seminar “A workforce for the future - Designing strong local strategies for better jobs and skills”, 28-29 Nov 2017, Venice, Italy. More information: http://oe.cd/CBSVenice2018

1. Joining up policies locally
Ekaterina Travkina, LEED Programme, OECD
Venice, 29 November 2017

2. • An OECD Committee created in 1982 out of the
Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee
to focus on:
– Job creation
– Cross-cutting issues ‒ connecting employment, skills
and economic development
– Policy implementation
• Expansion from 13 to 36 countries, including non
OECD countries (e.g. South Africa)
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What is LEED

3. Working on both the supply and demand
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4. Note: composite indicator based on 11 countries
Source: OECD (2010), Breaking Out of Policy Silos: Doing More with Less
Drivers of policy integration

5. Flexibility in managing employment
programmes at the local level
Note: TL3 or below
Source: OECD (2009), Flexible Policy for More and Better Jobs

6. Ways to increase flexibility with
accountability
• Negotiating local targets while ensuring
they add up to the achievement of national
goals
• Awarding flexibility incrementally: waivers,
awarding to larger cities first
• Boosting horizontal accountability:
partnerships hold each other accountable
• Using data: stimulus for cooperation and
continuous evaluation of success

7. • Make national employment and training policy frameworks more
flexible to enable them to be adapted to local labour market
conditions.
• Support partnership approaches within local economies (and in
some cases around specific sectors or value chains) leading to better
integrated policies and more effective and efficient strategies.
• Give priority to creating an adaptable labour force that is able to
innovate, progress, and transfer between sectors, hence building
local resilience.
• Support labour market transitions throughout the life-cycle by
building comprehensive local career information and well-
articulated training to employment pathways.
Policy implications at both national and
local levels (1)

8. • Stimulate productivity and innovation by working with employers
and trade unions to better utilise the skills of the existing workforce.
• Develop placed-based initiatives to support inclusive growth by
reducing the barriers that can exclude people from the labour force
over generations, including youth, women, older workers, people
with disabilities and immigrants.
• Support evidence-based local policies by further disaggregating data
on jobs and skills to the level of local labour markets.
Policy implications at both national and
local levels (2)

9. Thank you
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