Employment Support Project

The development objective of Employment Support Project for Azerbaijan is to improve vulnerable people's access to employment. This project has three components. 1) The first component, Enhancing the scope and effectiveness of the Self-Employment Program (SEP), has the following sub-components: (i) Expanding the program scale and scope of support; (ii) Testing the introduction of complementary business support services for selected SEP beneficiaries; (iii) Improving the governance and coordination mechanism of SEP. 2) The second component, Strengthening employment services and programs, has the following sub-components: (i) Labor market assessment and development of a Vocational Training Center (VTC) strategy; and (ii) Outreach, profiling, skills assessment, and case management for jobseekers. 3) The third component, Project management, monitoring, and evaluation, aims to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population (MLSPP) to implement the proposed project and use monitoring and evaluation data on labor market interventions that the ministry implements, including through the State Employment Service (SES).