LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS in ACTION! This Publication Has Been Developed with the Support of the European Union

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LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION! This publication has been developed with the support of the European Union. The content of the publication is the sole responsibility of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION!

INTRODUCTION

The objective of the Project Support to Local Employment Partnerships in Bosnia and Herzegovina funded by the European Union with EUR 4 Million and implemented by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) was to support the development of the partnerships and increase employability by the retraining of the unemployed persons in the entire territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The implementation of the Project started in March 2016 as a part of the EU Programme for local development and employment. In the period till April 2019, the development of 19 local employment partnerships has been supported and through their action more than 1600 unemployed persons have been retrained of which more than 550 have been employed. They are mainly socially vulnerable categories of population, including women, youth, minorities, returnees, internally displaced persons, and hard-to-employ categories.

All partnerships supported through the project have at least one representative of five key local stakeholders including municipalities or cities, public employment services, employers, educational institutions and non- governmental organisations. For the implementation of their activities, i.e. active labour market measures, the partnerships have received the financial support in the form of grants in average amount of 200,000.00 EUR in the first call, or up to 50,000.00 EUR in the second call, as well as the technical and advisory assistance by the International Labour Organisation during the implementation of the Project.

Special attention has been devoted to the establishment of the partnership as a self-sustainable for of cooperation of all local stakeholders. The partnerships established within the Project are expected to act independently after the Project ends and thus contribute to the integrated local development.

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Local employment partnership Banja Luka

PROJECT Strengthening of the local employment partnership in the industry of textile and leather manufacturing

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION City development agency June 2018 -January 2019 CIDEA and Faculty of technology Banja Luka, vocational school Banja Luka, chamber of The Project activities have been focused on better employment of persons commerce of Republika registered as unemployed at the Banja Luka bureau and of senior students of Srpska, Employment universities and high schools and better implementation of the employment institute of Republika measures. Srpska - Banja Luka bureau, Foundation Udružene žene (United women), and Activities of the partnership have contributed to the establishment of the private companies dealing coordination centre for textile and leather and to the strengthening of the with textile, leather and operative capacities. The centre will continue to operate after the Project ends. footwear manufacturing The tangible results achieved by the established partnership in the industry of - Exclusive Lingerie d.o.o, textile, leather and footwear have led to the process of formal establishment of Sparta d.o.o, Sadagosi the local employment partnership at the level of the city of Banjaluka. d.o.o, Miltex d.o.o, Belt d.o.o, Viko Omega d.o.o, GBT s.p, Toledo Union d.o.o, Bubsi beba s.p, First step d.o.o. and Carmen Line d.o.o. Banja Luka Three participants persons employed trainings 45 of training 16 after training for leather and textile processing

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Local employment partnership Banja Luka

PROJECT Urban agriculture

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION June 2017 - January 2019 Faculty of agriculture Banja Luka, City of Banja Luka, Employment Institute of Republika Srpska, Association Through the concept of urban agriculture and establishment of the cooperative, development centre this Project was focused on the long-term employment of the hard-to-employ Argonet, MushroomsTradeThree young persons of age 18 to 35, including women and persons with special d.o.o., GOPA mbH – BiH needsparticipants in the sector of agriculture.persons employed representativetrainings office, Youth 45 of training 16 after training employmentfor projectleather YEP and (GOPA) andtextile Swiss processing Caritas The local employment partnership, launched by this Project, ensured through its activities the support in creation of a complete value chain for food production in conditions of urban agriculture by forming an experiment farm in the area of Banja Luka. In the beginning of 2018, within the Project, the cooperative Sunčani brijeg was registered to be the support to the cooperative members in the procurement of equipment and seedling material. The cooperative establishes contacts and finds the market for the products of the cooperative members. The city of Banja Luka has provided a facility used by the cooperative as an office, storage and workshop place.

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Local employment partnership Bijeljina

PROJECT Continuous institutional cooperation leading to sustainable jobs in Bijeljina

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION City of Bijeljina and June 2018 -January 2019 Employment Institute of Republika Srpska, Bijeljina bureau, J.U. Vocational Through the development of the institutional framework of the partnership for school Mihajlo Pupin the development of human potentials and strengthening of the capacities of Bijeljina, Chamber of the local stakeholders for the development and implementation of measures of commerce of Republika active labour market policy through the partnership of the civil, public and private Srpska, regional chamber sector, this Project has been focused on the reduction of the unemployment rate of commerce Bijeljina, in Bijeljina in accordance with the objectives of the sustainable development Faculty of economics and Agenda 2030. Bijeljina – University Eastern Sarajevo, STEKO To increase the level of employment in the city of Bijeljina, the Project has CENTAR d.o.o. Bijeljina and been designed and led in accordance with the needs of industry which enables the training/retraining and self-employment, especially of vulnerable groups of MEGA DRVO d.o.o Bijeljina unemployed persons. Within the Project, the working group for employment and education of the city of Bijeljina was formed and tasked to monitor the needs of the labour market and propose measures for the improvement of business environment in the area of Bijeljina.

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Local employment partnership Bijeljina

PROJECT Strengthening of integrated agricultural production for the reduction of unemployment and replacement of import in the processing industry PROJECT PARTNERS Centers of civil initiatives PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION Bijeljina, city of Bijeljina, September 2017 - December 2018 Employment Institute of Republika Srpska – Bijeljina By providing support for the training on vegetable growing (red pepper growing) branch, Sava Semberija and registration of companies as commercial farms, the project activities have d.o.o. Bijeljina and adult been focused on employment of the unemployed persons and vulnerable learning centre Dositej categories (women, youth, disabled persons, returnees, minorities and persons Bijeljina above 50) who have 2.500 m2 of arable land in the area of Bijeljina.

In order to facilitate the process of registration and re-registration of the agricultural farms for the agricultural producers, and to help them better trained understandemployed the current subsidy policies, the partnership has developed and 50 CNC operators published19 the Manual – Better quality planning of agricultural production leading to new jobs. Also, all beneficiaries signed the contracts with the company Sava Semberija d.o.o. Bijeljina which define how the major quantity of yield of red pepper will be delivered to this company at contracted purchase price, which would ensure the sale of product, and the precondition for obtaining the subsidy for yield from the Agrarian fund Bijeljina. The relevant services of the city of trained Bijeljina have received the initiative foremployed forming the Council for development of 19 persons for agricultural12 start-ups production of Bijeljina16 and personsthe draft legal act whereby such initiative entrepreneurship could be implemented. Also, the policy brief was developed Proposal of measures for more efficient planning of the agricultural production in the area of Bijeljina, which is informative in nature but useful in a sense of advocating for the given proposal measures in order to improve the conditions in the area of agriculture.

trainees non-commercial 43 43 users of 43 farms received certiﬁcate planted 662,500 plants of changed the status 35 of training hybrid red pepper 30 into commercial farm collected 450 t of red pepper 7 LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION!

Local employment partnership Bosanska Krupa

PROJECT PROJECT Improvement of competitiveness NEW APPROACH – By strengthening local of the workforce in the territory of competitiveness of the workforce to the Bosanska Krupa municipality increase of employment rate

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION Municipality of Bosanska June 2017 - February 2019 June 2018 - January 2019 Krupa, Centre for promotion of the local development - PLOD, vocational school Safet Through the development of capacities of the educational institutions for Krupic, Employment service implementing practical classes for the occupation welder, this Project has of Una-Sana Canton, Novi been focused on training, retraining and additional training of the unemployed Most d.o.o. Bosanska persons in the area of Bosanska Krupa, strengthening of competitiveness of the Krupa, ACMA d.o.o. workforce and their employment in the partnership organizations. Bosanska Krupa, Krupa Kabine d.o.o. Bosanska In order to improve the legislative framework which will facilitate the practical Krupa, BOSANCAR d.o.o. classes in accordance with the needs of students and employers, the Analysis Bosanska Krupa and ZAH of the regulatory framework for practical classes in the Una-Sana Canton has d.o.o. Bosanska Krupa been developed and submitted to the Ministry of education, science, culture and sport of the Una-Sana Canton for adoption. Also, technical capacities have been established for the education and retraining of the welders within the PLOD Centre and the equipment has been purchased and installed for the simulation of welding and checking of the welding process and the staff of the local vocational school was trained for the practical classes that took place in the Centre. The platform (https://business-support-center.com/) of the Centre for support to entrepreneurship was created to provide the opportunity to the businesspersons and unemployed persons to express their needs for workforce and training.

applied persons successfully persons received welders 90 for training 52 completed training 42 welder certiﬁcate 16 employed

unemployed Classroom equipped Model of recognition 13 persons retrained for training and testing of previous learning established

unemployed persons 49 trained for the occupation stone cutter

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Local employment partnership Bužim

PROJECT NEW APPROACH – By strengthening local competitiveness of the workforce to the increase of employment rate

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION Association New security June 2018 - January 2019 initiative, Municipality Bužim, Bužim municipality employment bureau, Vocational school Hasan Through the establishment of the model of recognition of previous learning Music, adult learning centre for the verification of skills and strengthening of link between education and Gracanica and Sirbegovic retraining of adult persons and needs of the labour market, this Project has focused on the ensuring of transferring the unemployed registered at the Bužim Inzenjering d.o.o Gracanica employment bureau from informal into formal economy.

In order to identify the demands of employers in terms of necessary profiles of the workforce in Bužim and the wider area of the Una-Sana Canton, the survey of the labour market was conducted. Also, the framework for the development of the curriculum for obtaining secondary education and retraining for the occupation of welder, builder, worker dealing with laying of the ceramic tiles was created, and then provided to the vocational school Hasan Musić for applied thepersons purpose successfully of the preparation personsof the future received curricula of whichwelders the formal 90 for training 52 andcompleted informal trainingeducation institutions42 welder in the certiﬁcate area of the 16 Una-Sanaemployed Canton will be informed, as well as responsible institutions and other stakeholders. This partnership was active in the preparation and development of the employment action plan of the Bužim municipality for the period 2018 – 2021, including a number of measures for the reduction of the unemployed persons and those under high risk of poverty.

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Local employment partnership Capljina

PROJECT Establishment of the training and retraining centre in Čapljina

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION Regional economic June 2017 - December 2018 development agency Mostar, Municipality Čapljina, Employment Through the establishment of the training and retraining centre in Čapljina, the service of the Herzegovina- project activities have been focused on retraining of the unemployed persons applied persons successfully persons received welders Neretva Canton, from vulnerable categories of population including women, youth, unemployed, for training completed training welder certiﬁcate employed Secondary90 school Čapljina,52 hard-to-employ42 persons, and returnees16 and their employment in the area of Bizz Solutions d.o.o. tourism, hotel industry (mainly waiters and cooks). Čapljina, Tourist cluster Herzegovina Mostar and Tourist community of the In order to ensure the preconditions for the training and retraining, the training Herzegovina-Neretva and retraining centre has been equipped with the kitchen and restaurant Canton Mostar equipment and the training programmes have been prepared with the relevant unemployed Classroommanuals: equipped Manual for occupationModel cook of recognitionand Manual for occupation waiter and 13 persons retrained for trainingthe training and testing programme. Duringof previous the implementation learning established of the project activities, the beneficiaries of the centre were very active in local events where they offered prepared specialties with the purpose of employing retrained cooks unemployed persons trained for the and waiters. Special employment days were organised when the unemployed 49 occupation stone cutter persons had the opportunity to speak to the owners of the catering facilities.

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Local employment partnership Goražde applied persons successfully persons received welders for training completed training welder certiﬁcate employed 90 PROJECT52 42 16 Establishment of efficient ways of participation of the relevant stakeholders in the process of education of adults in the context of the life-long learning PROJECT PARTNERS City of Goražde, unemployed PERIOD OFClassroom IMPLEMENTATION equipped Model of recognition Association ALDI,13 persons retrainedJune 2017 - Januaryfor training 2019 and testing of previous learning established Vocational school Dzemal Bijedic Goražde, unemployed persons Employment service of Through the development of the three adult training programmes and trained for the the Bosnian Podrinje 49 employment in the partnership organisations in the export oriented processing occupation stone cutter Canton Gorazde, Chamber industry, this Project has focused on the professional development of the of commerce of the unemployed persons, including women, youth, disabled persons, and persons Bosnian Podrinje Canton, who are unemployed for a long time. Association of employers COOKS AND of the Bosnian Podrinje 36 WAITERS EMPLOYED Canton, Bekto Precisa d.o.o. In order to respond to the needs of the labour market through the planned Goražde and EMKA Bosnia OCCUPATION COOK OCCUPATION WAITER retraining, three curricula have been prepared for the occupation machine d.o.o. Goražde controller, plastic producer and CNC operator and the manuals for these occupations have been developed. Also, these occupations have been promoted training training traineesthrough the implementedemployed project activities to the leading companiestrainee in the persons 5 cycles 67 area of Goražde.21 In addition, the analysis of3 thecycles need for the professional21 and 15

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Local employment partnership Grude

PROJECT The sound of stone – Partnership for employment in the manufacturing and processing of stone

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION Association LiNK Mostar, June 2018 -January 2019 Association Zvuk kamena (Sound of stone) Posušje, Municipality Grude, Through the improvement of capacities of the education sector and in order to Vocational school Posušje, increase employability of the young persons, the Project activities shave been Employment service of the focused on creation of opportunities for bridging the gap between supply and West Herzegovina Canton, demand in the labour market and creation of guidelines for the development of KROR d.o.o. Posušje, VMS the stone processing industry. d.o.o. Posušje and Plava Vječnost d.o.o. Posušje In order to bridge the gap between the supply and demand in the labour market the local employment partnership of the West Herzegovina Canton was established. The work of the partnership is based on the employment action applied persons successfully persons received welders plan in the stone processing industry for the period 2018. - 2020. The partnership 90 for training 52 completed training 42 welder certiﬁcate 16 employed is the basic instrument for the implementation of the active employment policy and foundation for development, employment and social inclusion at the local level in the stone processing industry. The partnership was established as an umbrella institution that works on the analyzing of needs of companies and supply of the workforce, in order to define and implement activities for further adjustment. The capacities of the centre for stone have been improved by the purchase of the IT equipment and special equipment for machine processing of stone which opens the possibilities for the practical training for young persons in the vocational school. unemployed Classroom equipped Model of recognition 13 persons retrained for training and testing of previous learning established

unemployed persons 49 trained for the occupation stone cutter

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persons unemployed persons trained 42 employed 90 for machine controller, plastic producer and CNC operator LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION!

Local employment partnership Laktasi

PROJECT Strengthening of local partnership for improvement of labour market and increasing of employment

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION LIR Evolucija, Public June 2017 – March 2019 employment institute of Republika Srpska, Krajinamed Banjaluka and By increasing employment and enabling self-employment, the project has Vocational school Banja focused on the strategic development of the labour market in the territory of Luka the municipalities Laktaši, Čelinac and city of Banja Luka and bridging the gap between supply and demand for the qualified workforce.

Through sustainable local employment partnership, the training programmes have been prepared and established for the technical processing of wood and training for bee farming. The Center for informing, advising and training was equipped in the RS employment institute in Banja Luka as well as the workshop for the technical wood processing in Ramići. For the first time, the employment day was organized in Laktaši. The report has been prepared for the analysis of the structure of unemployed persons at target area and the employment action plan has been developed. The results achieved in less than two years influenced the decision of the partners to continue activities of the local employment partnership regarding the strengthening of employment in this area.

unemployed unemployed subsidies for self 10 persons at 61 person 10 employment by bee got employed providing hives farming and bees unemployed training unemployed 39 persons trained 77 persons for wood at ICT training processing

13 Persons PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT employed: TRAINING persons from the 62 list of the nezaposlenih employed employment 39 osoba 22 persons bureau Prnjavor unemployed persons 15 butchers Improved trained for occupations 2 carpenters employability stolar i CNC operater 5 CNC operators unemployed butcher, carpenter and 45 persons and CNC operator senior high school 191 students for active job seeking

82 unemployed self-employed persons in agricultural producers persons acquired 29 agricultural farms and 50 certiﬁed for alternative new knowledge small businesses crops in farming and practical skills in the industry LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION!

Local employment partnership Orasje

PROJECT Employment partnership in Posavina (LEP)

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION June 2017 – September 2018 Association for development NERDA Tuzla, Municipality Orašje, Employment service of the Posavina Canton, The project activities have been focused on professional training of the Vocational school Orašje, unemployed persons including youth, women, unemployed for long period, NEXUS BH d.o.o. Orašje, disabled persons, elderly and beneficiaries of the social assistance for the SKELE COMERC d.o.o. occupations of butcher, carpenter and CNC operator, and their employment in Orašje and PRIMA VIP partnership companies. d.o.o. Orašje

The final results of the Project have contributed to the development of the unemployed labour market in Posavina, creation of new jobs and better opportunities for unemployed subsidies for self persons at person the unemployed persons to be more competitive in the10 labour market. The 61 10 employment by bee got employed companiesproviding involved inhives the employment partnership in Posavinafarming have improved their cooperationand bees with the educational institutions,unemployed Orašje vocationaltraining school, unemployed Orašje municipality and the relevant ministry39 persons as a decision trained maker. The capacities77 persons of the Orašje vocational school have beenfor wood significantly improved for the at ICT training providing of specialized training programmesprocessing (qualification and re-qualification) for the occupations in demand by purchase of equipment( computers, and CNC machine). Persons PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT employed: TRAINING persons from the 62 list of the nezaposlenih employed employment 39 osoba 22 persons bureau Prnjavor unemployed persons 15 butchers Improved trained for occupations 2 carpenters employability stolar i CNC operater 5 CNC operators unemployed butcher, carpenter and 45 persons and 14 CNC operator senior high school 191 students for active job seeking

Local employment partnership Petrovac

PROJECT Production of flax leading to sustainable jobs in agriculture

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION June 2017 - January 2019 Municipality Petrovac, unemployed unemployed subsidies for self persons at Municipality Bosanski 10 61 person employment by bee Petrovac, Drvar, Istocni10 got employed providing hives farming Drvar, Kljuc and Ribnik, and bees unemployed training unemployed Faculty of agriculture In order 39to getpersons included trained in the production chain77 inpersons the North-western Sarajevo, Banja Luka BiH, the projectfor activities wood have focused on the organizationat ICT trainingof training on College, Employment entrepreneurshipprocessing and production of flax, buckwheat, rye, millet and spelt, and institute of Republika employment of the unemployed from the vulnerable categories of population Srpska, Employment who can use or possess the arable land. institute of Una-Sana Persons Canton, agricultural PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT employed: cooperative Klekovača, The Partnership has established the Regional action group (RAG) for TRAINING persons from the Žitoprodukt 2012 d.o.o. and employment in agriculture through which the municipalities in cooperation 62 list of the Association GEA nezaposlenih with the employmentemployed institutes agreed on the ways of implementation of employment 39 osoba the policy of support22 persons to employment in agriculture. Also, RAG action plan was bureau Prnjavor adopted for the period 2019-2022 covering activities related to RAG activities unemployed persons 15 butchers Improved in the “transitional period”, and activities related to the development of supply trained for occupations 2 carpenters employability and demand for the workforce, primarily in agriculture, and in forestry, social stolar i CNC operater 5 CNC operators unemployed services and rural tourism. All self-employed agricultural producers have butcher, carpenter and 45 persons and CNC operator signed the cooperative agreements with the cooperative Klekovača which included them in the value chain and ensured the sale of all yield. Also, the senior high school memorandum on purchase of agricultural products and food has been signed 191 students for active between the agricultural cooperative Klekovača and company Žitoprodukt 2012 job seeking d.o.o., which has contributed to the extension of the distribution capacities of this value chain.

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Local employment partnership Prnjavor

PROJECT Partnership for competitiveness and quality jobs

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION Agency for company June 2017 - January 2019 development Eda, unemployed unemployed Municipalitysubsidies forPrnjavor, self 10 persons at 61 person publicemployment institution by bee 10 Through the activities of matching supply andgot demand employed in the labour market, Employmentproviding hives institute of farming this Project has focused onunemployed building of skills of the unemployed young persons RS,and Employment bees institute unemployed training persons trainedand women and their77 employmentpersons in the metal processing, wood processing, of RS – employment bureau39 for wood food processing and lather andat ICT footwear training manufacturing industry, and increasing Prnjavor, vocational school processingof employability through the training on active job seeking. centre Ivo Andric, Prnjavor, Trivas d.o.o. Prnjavor and Topling d.o.o. Prnjavor The employment action plan of the Persons Prnjavor municipality for the period 2018- PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT employed: TRAINING 2020 has been developed and is in the persons from the process of implementation. It includes the 62 list of the nezaposlenih employedanalysis of economy and labour market employment 39 osoba 22 personsof Prnjavor and elaborated objectives bureau Prnjavor relating to increased employment and unemployed persons 15 butchers Improved employability of the unemployed persons, trained for occupations 2 carpenters employability and building of capacities of the institutions stolar i CNC operater 5 CNC operators which support employment. The plan unemployed butcher, carpenter and 45 persons and CNC operator defines 17 employment measures, of which 10 were already implemented in 2018 or senior high school were in the process of implementation. 191 students for active The classrooms for practical classes have job seeking been equipped (CNC simulators have been purchased), teachers trained to use the CNC simulators in classes, and equipment is available during practical classes. 82 unemployed self-employed persons in agriculturalThe process producers of accreditation of training persons acquired 29 agricultural farms and 50 certiﬁedhas started for alternative for adults in the secondary new knowledge small businesses cropsschool in forfarming the occupation CNC operator. and practical skills Through the functioning of the council in the industry for employment and economic council, there has been established a permanent cooperation between the vocational school, employment bureau and companies for 16 practical classes and training in companies. LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION!

Local employment partnership Prijedor

PROJECT Competitive knowledge and skills for sustainable jobs

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION July 2017 – February 2019 Agency for economic development of the city of Prijedor PREDA, City of Prijedor, Employment institute of Republika The purpose of this partnership reflects the need for a more dynamic local Srpska - Bireau Prijedor, labour market based primarily on partnership of the local institutions and vocational school for private sector. Through the project activities, the partnership has focused on the agriculture and food development of interventions at local market for the purpose of improvement processing Prijedor, of employment of the persons registered as unemployed at the Institute for secondary school of employment. mechanical engineering Prijedor, Edna export d.o.o. Prijedor and association of By development of the new active measures of support to employment wood processors Cluster and self-employment for the five strategic sectors of the local economy Wood Banja Luka (processing of wood, metal, textile and footwear manufacturing, agriculture and IT), financial resources of the budget of the city of Prijedor have been increased by 20% for active measures of support to employment and by 100% for adult education. Also, for adult education, the number of locally available adult training programmes and new technologies have increased. By project activities, the new model has been tested implying the organization of activities of “training for employment” based on partnership with local companies.

new formal new non-formal trainee for new programmes adult retraining jobs 8 for adult 3 programmes 171 75 retraining

17 established speciﬁčnih new companies with programa od čega 8 stručnog young persons 12 usavršavanja employed 60 žena 150 attended 14 persons polaznika 11 applicants business selected for the education and zaposlene 12 od čega granting of motivation osoba start-up package workshops žena 42 zaposleno u 11 osobe 30 partnerskim kompanijama

TRAINED EDUCATED OPENED students of persons for conducting the info points on dual vocational activities of dual education education (Novi Grad 18 schools for the 40 (through three education 3 municipality, Novo labour market seminars) Sarajevo municipality and Vogošća municipality)

unemployed persons registered 103 persons 52 employed 26 commercial trained farms LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION!

Local employment partnership Sarajevo

PROJECT New employment strategies at local level

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION Municipality Novi Grad May 2017 - December 2018 Sarajevo, Public institution employment service of Sarajevo canton, Through professional training of the unemployed, the project activities have secondary school of focused on the implementation of the specific programmes of training in order electrical engineering to increase possibilities of employment for women, young persons, disabled Sarajevo, Cebos d.o.o. persons, and persons unemployed for more than two years in the area of IT, Sarajevo, Herbal Spa d.o.o. traffic, visual communications and providing sophisticated body care services. Sarajevo, Centrotrans - Eurolines d.d. Sarajevo, Mistral Technologies d.o.o. Through the partnership, a functional model for the development of innovations and entrepreneurship has been developed for the young persons in the area Sarajevo and Association of IT - Center for development of innovations and entrepreneurship (CIP) on Center for development the premises of the secondary school of electrical engineering. In the centre, of social entrepreneurship workshops for 30 students (6 female students) have already been provided in Sarajevo the area of innovations, programming, project approach and entrepreneurship. The innovations, that are developed within the workshops in addition to formal education, have received prizes through the project, and later a recognition at the international contest. Also, the municipality Novi Grad Sarajevo established a new institutional mechanism “Local employment partnership- LEP” included in the development strategy of the municipality, and later a local employment action plan and a current work plan of the municipality mayor for the purpose of action sustainability. The Center for innovations and entrepreneurship, as a new model of support to education system, implementation of informal education, will continue to provide support to young innovators to transfer their ideas into business plans to be implemented in the market.

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Local employment partnership Sarajevo

PROJECT Promotion of dual education through pilot project and education

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION Association of employers July 2018 - January 2019 of FBiH, Centrotrans d.d. Sarajevo vocational school for transport and new formal newBy non-formal bridging the gap between the supply and demand in the labour market, the communications Sarajevo, trainee for new 8 programmes 3 adultproject activities have focused171 retraining on the increase of employment75 jobs in the Sarajevo Center offor secondary adult programmescanton and strengthening of capacities and companies for promotion and retraining schools Vogošća, Public implementation of the dual education. employment service of Sarajevo Canton and municipalities of Sarajevo The functioning of the dual education model in real working environment and effects of the model has been verified by the implementation of the project established canton speciﬁčnih activities. The successful implementation of this education model through programa new companies with od čegaimplementation of the activities in the company Centrotrans Eurolines d.d. 8 stručnog young persons 12 usavršavanja Sarajevo showed all benefits of dual education which can be a good foundation employed 60 žena 150 attended 14 persons polaznika 11 for making decision on its systemic introduction.applicants In that sense, throughbusiness the implementation of project activities, importantselected elements for that the served as a basiseducation and od čega zaposlene 12 for the draft law on dual education were established,granting and of their submission tomotivation the osoba start-up package workshops žena 42parliamentaryzaposleno assembly uis expected. Obtained support for the implementation 11 osobeof dual 30educationpartnerskim and trained staff to implement it will be institutionalized by formation kompanijamaof the advisory board for dual education which would help the institutions responsible for this model to implement it.

unemployed persons registered 103 persons 52 employed 26 commercial trained farms LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION!

Local employment partnership Teslic

PROJECT new formal new non-formal trainee for new programmes adult retraining jobs 8Partnershipfor adult leading3 programmes to new jobs171 75 retraining

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION Association of citizens June 2017 - December 2018 established “Something more” (Nešto speciﬁčnih programa new companies with više), Municipality Teslic, od čega 8 stručnog young persons 12 Vocational school Nikola usavršavanja employed 60 žena 150 attended 14 persons Tesla, Teslic, Association Through activitiespolaznika of training11 and retraining programmes for the youth, womenapplicants business and hard-to-employ persons for the occupation carpenter for carpenter forselected for the education and of forestry and wood zaposlene 12 od čega granting of motivation processing INTERFOB Banja the general use furniture, carpenter for cupboards, CNC operator for wood, osoba start-up package workshops Luka, RS Emplyoment upholsterer, varnisher,žena welder42 of thin inox tinszaposleno – welder u using TIG procedure, 11 osobe 30 partnerskim institute – Teslic bureau, CNC operator for metal, tinsmith and mechatronics for assembling of LED kompanijama Interlignum d.o.o. Teslic, display, the project has been focused on employment of these persons in the Saldatura d.o.o. Teslic, partnership companies by providing incentives to employers. Antena Net d.o.o. Teslic, Drvokomerc d.o.o. Pribinic, The project activities have led to establishment of the local employment Metal d.o.o. Vrela and As partnership that was institutionalized by the decision of the municipality mayor Var d.o.o. Teslic in Teslić and became a part of the municipality structure and in future it will TRAINED EDUCATED OPENED act as an advisory body for development and implementation of the project in the territorystudents of theof Teslić municipality. Bypersons purchase for conductingof CNC machines, the the info points on dual vocational activities of dual education education (Novi Grad capacities18 schoolsof the secondary for the school Nikola40 Tesla(through have beenthree improvededucation for further3 municipality, Novo implementationlabour of market the programme of educationseminars) and retraining of adults in Teslić. Sarajevo municipality and Vogošća municipality)

unemployed persons registered 103 persons 52 employed 26 commercial trained farms

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Local employment partnership Travnik

PROJECT TRIK for new opportunities in employment and entrepreneurship

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION Regional development June 2017 - February 2019 agency for the region Central BiH - REZ, Municipality Travnik, The purpose of the project TRIK was the creation of a more favourable business Employment service of environment for the labour market in the Travnik municipality by establishment CBC, Center for education of institutional and infrastructural preconditions for increasing of employment of youth - CEM, University and self-employment among the young people. Vitez Travnik, GS-tmt d.o.o Travnik, NOBIL d.o.o. Nova Bila, Vocational school Through TRIK activities in Travnik, Local employment partnership of the Travnik Travnik and Secondary municipality was established, business incubator was established as well as school of economics and the co-working space BeeZone. Also, the Fund for support to self-employment catering Travnik was established as a new active employment measure and programme of entrepreneurial education in the territory of the Travnik municipality. In addition to the Fund, the Travnik municipality established the fund for support to self- employment as a continuous support measure within the budget for 2019. The new formal new non-formal traineeemployment for action plan 2017-2020new was developed and adopted and serves for programmes adult retraining jobs 8 for adult 3 programmes 171 the operationalisation75 and implementation of the strategic investments in the retraining labour market in accordance with the objectives of the Employment Strategy FBiH 2009-2013 and Employment StraBiH 2010-2014.

established speciﬁčnih new companies with programa od čega 8 stručnog young persons 12 usavršavanja employed 60 žena 150 attended 14 persons polaznika 11 applicants business selected for the education and zaposlene 12 od čega granting of motivation osoba start-up package workshops žena 42 zaposleno u 11 osobe 30 partnerskim kompanijama

unemployed persons registered 103 persons 52 employed 26 commercial trained farms LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION!

Local employment partnership Zavidovići

PROJECT Partnership leading to new jobs

PROJECT PARTNERS PERIOD OF IMPLEMENTATION Association of June 2017 - January 2019 entrepreneurs and employers Žepce, Development agency Zavidovići, Municipality Through the strengthening of the horizontal and vertical link of the sustainable partnership of stakeholders from the public, private and NGO sector and through Zavidovići, Public institution increasing of joint actions, the project activities have focused on the creation of employment service of conditions for formal employment of the vulnerable categories of population the Zenica-Doboj Canton – from rural areas and the increase of their income. Zavidovići bureau, Chamber of commerce, General agricultural cooperative By establishment of this Local employment partnership, the existing resources have been identified regarding the development, improvement and process AGROFARM Žepce, of employment/self-employment in the agricultural sector and the document Association of agricultural Situational analysis and possibilities of employment has been developed by producers Agro-Dolina the establishment of the sustainable family farms. Also, the local employment Zavidovici, Private action plan in the sector of agriculture has been developed, cooperative institution Center for adult relationship production-purchase has been established and the non-formal education Gračanica and cluster of medicinal and aromatic herbs has been established that is the successor of the AgroMAP network in BiH. Also, the infrastructural support has Frutti - Funghi d.o.o. – been improved through the establishment of the production/processing unit Zavidovići branch in the business incubator Zavidovići with the installed stationery and mobile equipment – machine ring including the following: mobile distillation apparatus; drying rooms - stationery and mobile, machinery for the cultivation of land - tractors and rotary cultivators, mowing machines, excavators, motorized mowers – trimmers and sprayers.

Employment Training Planting

family farms persons certiﬁed 2 39 supported 18 for farm 140.000m management of plantations of berries and persons persons trained medicinal herbs 14 employed 164 on growing and processing of fruit 22 and herbs LOCAL EMPLOYMENT PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION!

Geographic coverage of action of local employment partnerships in BiH

KOSTAJNICA VELIKA KLADUŠA KOZARSKA DUBICA BUŽIM GRADIŠKA ODŽAK NOVI BROD SRBAC ORAŠJE CAZIN GRAD VUKOSAVLJE ŠAMAC DONJI ŽABAR KRUPA PRIJEDOR DERVENTA MODRIČA LAKTAŠI PELAGIĆEVO PRNJAVOR BOSANSKA OŠTRA LUKA BIHAĆ GRADAČAC BRČKO KRUPA SREBRENIK BIJELJINA SANSKI BANJA LUKA GRAČANICA MOST ČELINAC USORA SREBRENIK ČELIĆ UGLJEVIK BOSANSKI PETROVO LOPARE TEŠANJ PETROVAC KLJUČ KOTOR TESLIĆ TUZLA VAROŠ MAGLAJ LUKAVAC SAPNA PETROVAC KNEŽEVO KALESIJA RIBNIK ZVORNIK IST. DRVAR MRKONJIĆ ŽEPČE ŽIVINICE GRAD DOBRETIĆI ZAVIDOVIĆI BANOVIĆI OSMACI DRVAR JAJCE JEZERO ŠEKOVIĆI TRAVNIK ZENICA KLADANJ BRATUNAC ŠIPOVO VLASENICA BOSANSKO DONJI VITEZ VAREŠ GRAHOVO OLOVO MILIĆI VAKUF NOVI KAKANJ GLAMOČ KUPRES RS TRAVNIK BUSOVAČA HAN PIJESAK BUGOJNO ILIJAŠ SREBRENICA VISOKO BREZA SARAJEVO SOKOLAC FOJNICA KISELJAK VOGOŠĆA CENTAR KUPRES GORNJI VAKUF- IST.S.G. USKOPLJE ILIDŽA SARAJEVO S.G. KREŠEVO NOVO LIVNO SARAJEVO N.G. SARAJEVO ROGATICA PROZOR-RAMA IST. ILIDŽA IST.N.SA. PALE VIŠEGRAD HADŽIĆI TRNOVO RS PALE-PRAČA GORAŽDE NOVO GORAŽDE TOMISLAVGRAD JABLANICA TRNOVO RUDO KONJIC FOČA- TRNOVO RS USTIKOLINA ČAJNIČE Agriculture POSUŠJE FOČA Processing of metal and wood MOSTAR IST. MOSTAR KALINOVIK ŠIROKI Tourism GRUDE BRIJEG NEVESINJE Textile and leather industry ČITLUK LJUBUŠKI GACKO IT, visual communications ČAPLJINA BERKOVIĆI STOLAC Ltd/small businesses BILEĆA NEUM LJUBINJE Stone processing RAVNO Other

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