Competitiveness And Jobs Project

Serbia was granted a loan of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to improve the competitiveness and employment. The main goal of the Project is to improve the efficiency and coordination of selected programs to mitigate the constraints for competitiveness and job creation, including investment and export promotion, innovation, active labour market programs, employment mediation and activation of users of social assistance. Project incorporates three ministries — the Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs (with National Employment Service) and Public Policy Secretariat (PPS) in the implementation and piloting of the policy planning, monitoring and coordination framework (PPMC system). The PPS will lead the implementation of the PPMC system, and coordinate the gathering and processing of the results of the monitoring, reporting, fiduciary functions and safeguard procedures with participating institutions. The Project Development Objective is to improve the effectiveness and coordination of selected public programs to alleviate constraints to competitiveness and jobs creation including investment and export promotion, innovation, active labor market programs, labor intermediation, and activation of social assistance beneficiaries and their transition into formal jobs. The project focuses on a targeted set of achievable reforms of existing policies - as well as the effectiveness of their implementation - which have been identified as key drivers of the competitiveness and jobs agenda by the Bank, as well as other relevant analytical work. More detailed information about the project you may find on following link: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/24977067/serbia-competitiveness-jobs-project