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Labour Information System 6CW- TNV •/4'.3 / i j LabourLabour InformationInformation SysteinSystem (Egypt)(Egypt) PhasePhase 1I ProjectProject No.No. 86-0186-0182 82 ISN:ISN: 1287212872 IinpactImpact AssessmentAssessment RepoflReport GomiaGouda ,4bdci-Khafek,Abdel-Khafek, Ph.D.Ph. D. CairoCairo University, Egypt Final Version November, 1997 tr. AS Tabletale of Goutents:Contents: !!a!? .. ListList of Acronyms ji11 1. Background 1 II.11. ObjecfivesObjectives 2 III.Ill. Inputs/ActivitiesInputsIActivities 3 IV. Outputsoutputs 7 V.y. Outputs-unintendedOutputs-unintended 13 VI Reach 14 Annexes 17 1 IistList of Acronvms: CAPMAS : Central Agency for PubliePublic Mobilization and Statistics. CIDSC : Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center. ILO International Labour Office. LFSS Labour Force Sample Survey. LIS Labour Information System. UNDPUNDP United Nations DevelopmentDevelopment Programme.Programme. 1.I. Background: The originorigm of this project may be tracedtraced back to an ILO/UNIDPLO/UNDP employment strategy mission to Egypt inin 1980. The mission'smission’s reportreport stressed the urgent need for development. By revealmgrevealing strong malad- justment in various labour markets in the face of socio-econornic socio-economic changes, the reportreport called for more policy formation and planning. Deeper understanding of the workingworkmg of various labour markets (rural public private and foreign) became more urgent in thethe light of the domestic and regional developments which followed 1980. In particular, a growing need was felt for: * Identifying the sources, determinants, composition andaud impactimpact of outward and retanreturn migration; * understanding the lmkageslinkages between the educational systernsystem and thethe supply of labour. * Mapping changes iiiin thethe earning structarestructure and differentials therein. * * analyzing deterrninantsdeterminants of productivity.productivity Consequently, an urgent need was felt for the establishrnentestablishment of a labour informationinformation system to guide policy formulation and decision makingmakmg regardingregardmg employment and related policy areas such as wages and incomes, subsidies, education and training. The Labour Information System project was to address sornesome ofof these concenisconcerns by providing an operational tool for aiding the employment-policy choices. 1 Ii.11. Objcctives:Objectives: Against tbishs background,backgound, the overalioverall objective of thethe Labour InforrnationInformation System project was toto build an informationmformation system for the collection, storage and analysis of information and data on the labourlabour markets in Egypt, and to conduct associated research. According to thethe project proposal document.document, the specific objectives were: (a) To conduct a number of studies toto bridge existing information gaps regarding various labour markets,markets, takingtakmg into consideration recent developments, conditions and problems in different labour markets. (b) To organize existing and newly collected data hitointo an efficient inforniationinformation system that will give easy access to thethe data necessarynecessaq for policy-oriented research and for decision inaking,malung, and which allows identification of basic interactionsinteractions underlying the funetioningfunctioning of labour labour markets. (c) To undertake sornesome preliminary modeling work aiming at identifyingidentifying employment modeismodels most appropriate for the needs of Egyptian policy makers, and eventually leading to the construction of a prototype experimental computerized model on labour. Information obtained by the evaluator through interviewsinterviews (see Annex 4) indicated that the projectproject was originallyorigmally a modeling exercise only, but itit was soon later decided to focus on thethe data-collection aMand specific studies to fuifill thethe inforrnationinformation gap before modeling. But eventually the model-building part of the project had to be dropped. This may be an indication thatthat an overly 2 arnbitiousambitious aidand perhapsperhaps unrealistieunrealistic research proposal proposal was approved,approved, onlyonly toto discoverdiscover af'terafter work hadhad begun that it cannotcannot be implemented. 111.Ill. lnputs/Activitics:Inputs/Activities: (1)(I) InputsInputs ofof different types and of various various sources werewere mobilizedmobilized for the projects.projects. There were inputsinputs inin rnoneymoney terrnsterms andand inputsinputs inin kind.kmd. There were inputsinputs fromfrom IDRCIDRC from CAPMAS, and sornesome expected from thethe ILO.ILO. UJRCIDRC contributedcontributed a grantgrant ofof 340 000 CAD. According toto thethe Project Completion Report-PCR (dated 08/31/1993),0813 1/1993), CAPMAS was granted $ 340 000 CAD for the initialinitial duration of 36 rnonths.months. An additional amount of $ 1400 CAD was later granted along with a six- rnonthmonth extensionextension in 1990,1990. The project officially started SeptemberSeptember 1, 1987,987, and the cornpletioncompletion date was extended toto March 3 1, 19911991. Actual disbursernentdisbursement was $ 296889.10 only, as per PCR. (2) QnOn its part, CAPMAS as the deliveiydelivery agent contributed the equivalent of 306000 CAD inin kind. Its contribution covered the costs of al!all five special surveys and add-on modules to on-going surveys, for which a total of 240 000 CAD was budgeted. In addition, CAPMAS contributed in kindlund the equivalent of 66 000 CAD for publications and support services. (3) In the early stages of the project, the ILOLO was expected to be involved in helping get the rnodelingmodeling work started. LOILO contribution was to be in kind, not in money, by providing the requisite expertise in the area of modelingrnodeling labour markets and in labour surveys and database design to CAPMAS. As the specific objectives of the project were changed not too long after its start, the targettaiget of constructing the prototype experimental computerized modelrnodel on labour was dropped. The contribution and 3 involvement of ILO as a collaborating agent in this project thereforetherefore never materialized. (4) In addition to the aboyeabove inputs in money and iiiin kind, IDRCIDRC processed a consultancy contract for Dr. Nader Fergany, the technicaltechnical director of the project. That was inin April 1991, after the actual completion of thethe project. According loto the PCR, dicthe consultancy was intendedintended loto finance the preparation and publication of a repofireport on the methodologymethodology and main findirigsfindings of the the October 1988 Round of the LFSS in both Arabic and English.English. the reportreport was tilled:titled: "Design,“Design, Implementation, and Appraisal of thethe October 1988 Round of the LFSS."LFSS.” (5) The main activities of the LIS project are two: the labour force and employrnentemployment informationmformation system, and special studies: (a) The Labour Force Information System involves twotwo activities: buildingbuildmg the tools and institutionalizing thethe process. First,- building system tools covers several activities : - trilingual (Arabic/EnglisblFrench)(ArabicEnglisldFrench) thesaurus for labour force and employment terniinology,terminology, in collaboration with the Arab EmploymeutEmployment Agency in TangierTanger (CAPMAS had loto abandon jIsits effort ínin this area, and loto adopt the output of the Arab Employment Agency); - an organized bibliographic store of documents, studies anciand research material on labour force and employment in Egypt; - a set of statistical databases on labour force and employment in Egypt. The main variables in the statistical databases are: employmentemployment by sector/segmentlage/sex/skill/worksector/segment/agelsex/skill/work status-location; labour productivity by a similar breakdown; wages oror labour incomeincome by aa similar breakdown, labour supp]ysupply and unemployinentunemployment by age / sex / skill / location:location; under- 4 employiiienteiiiploymcril ineasures;ineastires; househo~dliousehold iiicoinesineomes aid theirIheir distributioii.distribution. A number of additional variables were loto be incorporated.incorporaled. DataDala to be obtained fromfroin on-going surveys andaiid add on modulesinodules Loto these surveys. But five special surveys were conducted especially for lhisthis project: for job vacancies, multiplernultiple jobs, productivity, iiifonnalinformal sector, and construction.constructíon The central tool of the labour force informalioninfonnation system is obviously the statisticalstatisticai databases. They also acconntedaccounted for the largest share of the project budget (54% of the total). Second, institutionalizinginstitutionaliziiig a dynarnicdynamic process of infonnationinfonnatioii use andaiid analysis iniii policy formulation and decision making based on these tools. The labour force informationinfonnation systeinsysteiii is the core of the LIS project. TlieThe concept introduced iiiin tliethe PPD is a very interesting and promising one. According toto that concept, the structure ofof thethe labour forceforce infonnationinfonnatioii system as suggested jain Ihethe LIS projectproject niaymay be scheniatically illustraledillustrated as foliows:follows: (Fergany,(Fergany, PreliminarvPreliminan, ReportReport Gil.Gil, Dec. 1990,1990, P. 8): StructureStructure ofof ErnployrnetEinployinet InformationIiifonnation System Literature Jssues & Po!icy Review Analysis Determination of Research Problems and Needed Data
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