Enhanced labour market outcomes in Fiji through a better job information service
Through the ILO/Japan Fund for Building Social Safety Nets in Asia and the Pacific, this project seeks to supplement the ongoing ILO/ADB collaboration on employment diagnostics in Fiji by strengthening the job information service in Fiji through the development of an employment projections model.
Between 2007 and 2012, the Fijian economy and labour market has experienced a number of critical challenges, including the global economic crisis, natural disasters and political uncertainty. As a result, the economy has grown at an average annual rate of only 1 per cent during the time. The low rates of growth have largely been a result of reduced domestic and foreign investment. The labour force in Fiji continues to grow rapidly, highlighting the critical need for the economy to absorb entrants into decent and productive jobs.
In recent years, in particular as preparations for democratic elections in September 2014 have boosted confidence in the economy, economic growth is estimated to have accelerated. With economic growth accelerating, the Government of Fiji has sought to ensure that the economic gains translate into better labour market outcomes, including reductions in unemployment, underemployment and subsistence activities.
In early 2014, the Fiji Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment (MLIRE), and Fiji Ministry of Strategic Planning, National Development and Statistics (MSPNDS) and the social partners requested technical assistance in better understanding the evolving dynamics of employment and labour market, policies and institutions, and to develop policy options to improve labor market outcomes in Fiji.
The ILO in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), is undertaking an employment diagnostic in response to the request, the results of which will be available by the end 2014.
The joint ILO/ADB employment diagnostic is aimed at informing the formulation of a national employment policy in Fiji, which is a direct follow-up to the ratification by Fiji in 2010 of the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) that commits Member States to pursue an active policy designed to promote full, productive and freely chosen employment.
Through the ILO/Japan Fund for Building Social Safety Nets in Asia and the Pacific, the project seeks to supplement the ongoing ILO/ADB collaboration on employment diagnostics in Fiji by strengthening the job information service in Fiji through the development of an employment projections model.
In addition to informing the government allocations for scholarships, the projections will be used to develop “outlooks” of a range of occupations, following validation of the initial projections results by tripartite constituents and other experts. The occupational outlooks will be utilized by the NEC/MLIRE to inform jobseekers while the Fiji Ministry of Education and the Fiji Higher Education Commission will provide the occupational outlooks to career guidance counsellors at secondary, TVET and tertiary levels to inform the career and education choices of students. The provision of job information services is an important component of active labour market policies, which act as important social safety net measures.
In recent years, in particular as preparations for democratic elections in September 2014 have boosted confidence in the economy, economic growth is estimated to have accelerated. With economic growth accelerating, the Government of Fiji has sought to ensure that the economic gains translate into better labour market outcomes, including reductions in unemployment, underemployment and subsistence activities.
In early 2014, the Fiji Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment (MLIRE), and Fiji Ministry of Strategic Planning, National Development and Statistics (MSPNDS) and the social partners requested technical assistance in better understanding the evolving dynamics of employment and labour market, policies and institutions, and to develop policy options to improve labor market outcomes in Fiji.
The ILO in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), is undertaking an employment diagnostic in response to the request, the results of which will be available by the end 2014.
The joint ILO/ADB employment diagnostic is aimed at informing the formulation of a national employment policy in Fiji, which is a direct follow-up to the ratification by Fiji in 2010 of the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) that commits Member States to pursue an active policy designed to promote full, productive and freely chosen employment.
Through the ILO/Japan Fund for Building Social Safety Nets in Asia and the Pacific, the project seeks to supplement the ongoing ILO/ADB collaboration on employment diagnostics in Fiji by strengthening the job information service in Fiji through the development of an employment projections model.
In addition to informing the government allocations for scholarships, the projections will be used to develop “outlooks” of a range of occupations, following validation of the initial projections results by tripartite constituents and other experts. The occupational outlooks will be utilized by the NEC/MLIRE to inform jobseekers while the Fiji Ministry of Education and the Fiji Higher Education Commission will provide the occupational outlooks to career guidance counsellors at secondary, TVET and tertiary levels to inform the career and education choices of students. The provision of job information services is an important component of active labour market policies, which act as important social safety net measures.