Traduction de «Stratégie d'amélioration de l'aptitude à l'emploi » (Français → Anglais) :

Facilitating access to employment for job seekers, preventing unemployment and ensuring that those who become unemployed remain closely attached to the labour market and increase their employability are essential to increase participation and combat social exclusion.

Facilitating access to employment for job seekers, preventing unemployment and ensuring that those who become unemployed remain closely attached to the labour market and increase their employability are essential to increase participation and combat social exclusion.

The strategy to tackle problems of poverty and social exclusion combines: national action in collaboration with devolved administrations and regional bodies, and local and neighbourhood action with local government and voluntary and community sectors; economic management to improve employment opportunities; efforts to make it easier for people to get jobs, retain jobs and progress in jobs; shorter-term policies to make work pay and improve living st ...[+++]andards of those unable to obtain employment; and longer-term investment in public services, particularly education and health, to improve opportunities.

(2) The achievement of this goal requires a sustainable economic growth across the Union, by improving the structural framework for enhanced employment and social cohesion, thus including an integrated and coherent approach between economic and employment policies, by promoting lifelong education and training as an indispensable means of enhancing employability and adaptability, and by reducing skills gaps and promoting occupational and geographical mobility between sectors and regions, thus increasing the productive potential of our economies.

In order to enhance the productivity of labour and expand the demand for labour the following could be pursued: - ensure that the macro-economic policies support broad based economic growth and widespread distribution of its benefits; - promote equitable access to assets such as skills, land, credit, capital and technology, to enhance work opportunities in rural and urban areas and the productivity of work, in particular for women ; - support the formulation and implementation by partner countries - as part of partners' overall strategy to reduce poverty - of consistent overall employment strategies on the basis of a commitment to acce ...[+++]lerate the increase in productive employment in the private sector with the aim of having an economic policy which should be both job and productivity-driven ; - support the development of an environment favourable to small enterprises and micro-enterprises, including those in the informal sector through, inter alia, the provision of appropriate and efficient credit facilities, notably micro- credit; - support improvements in quality/relevance and the expansion of education and training systems including lifelong learning; no sustainable increases in employment and productivity can be achieved without raising the qualifications and responsiveness of human resources to economic change; - where appropriate, promote labour-intensiveness of investment in economic and social infrastructures that use local resources and provide for their effective integration into the local socio-economic context. c) Health Under the "Horizon 2000" initiative, the Council has identified health as a major priority of development aid and of coordination between the Community and Member States.

Structural Funds will support in particular the measures listed below: - infrastructure measures to protect the environment, in particular * reclamation of derelict industrial sites and restoration of derelict commercial areas including the necessary decontamination * investments in waste water treatment and refuse disposal * water supply and distribution - investment of the productive sector in environmental improvement and clean technologies - productive investment in connection with business start-ups, setting-up, extension, rationalisation and restructuring of enterprises which can unequivocally be related to environmental improvemen ...[+++]t - introduction of services and environmental agencies for giving advice and information Priority 5 - Measures to promote the development of human resource, vocational training and further training as well as employment The strategy to develop human resources and employment and to combat unemployment - in line with the White Paper - will concentrate the efforts of the ESF on the following priorities: - measures for training, retraining and lifetime learning; assistance with finding a job; help for those who have lost their jobs, are threatened with unemployment of who are in employment but need to have their qualifications brought into line with market needs and new technologies; - measures for target groups which concentrate on one of the following areas: a) improved access for young people to initial training and the transition to the labour market including Youth start measures; b) improvement in the opportunities for employment and training for unemployed persons who are difficult to place in work, long-term unemployed persons threatened with exclusion from the labour market; c) improvement of vocational qualification and (re)integration of women into the labour market in all areas of the economy. - technical assistance measures together with pilot and demonstration projects.