Promoting employment opportunities for youth and women through providing vocational and technical training programmers, and developing a labor market management system to achieve decent work.
Ministry of Labor
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Government
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Description
This initiative will contribute to accelerating the progress towards achieving SDG 8 and its relevant targets and will achieve the following objectives:
1. Providing 60,000 job opportunities for young people, including 35% for females and 7% for the most vulnerable groups by the end of 2025.
2. Completing the development of the labor Market Information System by 2025.
3. Completing the implementation of the Jordanian National Strategy for Technical and Vocational Education and Training by 2027.
4. Increasing the number of sectoral skills councils from 13 to 21 sector councils by 2025.
1. Job opportunities for youth created.
In line with the Sustainable Development Goal 8, which focuses on promoting decent work and fostering economic growth, as well as Sustainable Development Goal 1, which aims to End poverty, as well as Sustainable Development Goal 5, which focuses on gender equity, our objective is to provide 60,000 employment opportunities by the end of 2025. These opportunities will offer a conducive and equitable work environment, with a specific focus on inclusivity.
Our commitment extends to ensuring that 35% of these job opportunities are dedicated to empowering female workers, contributing to gender equality and women's economic empowerment. Additionally, we aim to allocate 7% of these positions to individuals belonging to the most marginalized and vulnerable groups, thereby addressing social disparities and fostering a more inclusive society. This comprehensive approach not only aligns with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals but also demonstrates our dedication to social and economic progress.
2. Operational labor Market Information System is in place.
In accordance with Sustainable Development Goal 8, which centers on the advancement of decent work and economic growth, our objective is to successfully finalize the development of the Labor Market Information System (LMIS) by the year 2025. This initiative aims to accelerate the creation of a robust and comprehensive LMIS that will serve as a vital tool for labor market analysis, policy formulation, and workforce planning, thereby contributing significantly to the promotion of decent work opportunities and economic prosperity.
3. Jordanian National Strategy for Technical and Vocational Education and Training implemented.
In alignment with Sustainable Development Goals 4, 5, 8, and 13, our commitment is to fully execute the Jordanian National Strategy for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) by the year 2027. This comprehensive strategy not only fosters inclusive and quality education (SDG 4) but also promotes gender equality (SDG 5), encourages decent work and economic growth (SDG 8), and addresses climate action (SDG 13) through fostering the transition to green jobs.
This initiative will facilitate and expedite the implementation of the TVET strategy through contributing to improved access to technical and vocational education, enhancing gender equality in technical and vocational settings, increasing opportunities for decent employment, and application of sustainable development practices. This holistic approach underscores our commitment to addressing multiple aspects of social and environmental progress through education and vocational training.
4. Public private partnership through sectoral skills councils strengthened.
In accordance with Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 8, which focus on quality education and fostering economic growth, our strategic objective is to enhance collaboration between the public and private sectors through the establishment of sectoral skills councils. By the year 2025, we aim to expand the number of sectoral skills councils from the current 13 to a total of 21 sector councils, all of which will be representative of the private sector.
This initiative underscores our commitment to bridging the gap between education and industry, promoting the development of skills that are directly aligned with the needs of the job market. These sectoral skills councils will serve as critical platforms for industry stakeholders to engage in dialogue, share expertise, and guide educational institutions in tailoring their curricula to meet the evolving demands of various sectors.
By fostering these partnerships and increasing the representation of private sector interests in the councils, we aspire not only to enhance the quality of education and training (SDG 4) but also to stimulate economic growth (SDG 8) by ensuring that the workforce is equipped with the relevant skills needed to drive innovation and competitiveness in a rapidly changing global economy.
The governance framework guarantees the initiative's accountability, strategic orientation, and adherence to its objectives. Meanwhile, the coordination system cultivates a collaborative, transparent, and flexible atmosphere, ensuring effective execution and the ability to respond to changing requirements and obstacles.
The implementation of the initiative will be under the overall supervision of the Ministry of Labour in close coordination and cooperation with the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and other relevant ministries and institutions. Moreover, this initiative will be part of the national coordination mechanisms for the EMV vision and SDGs. More specifically, the following entities and mechanisms will serve achieving optimal coordination and harmonization of the initiative’s components:
Technical and Vocational Skills development and employment promotion steering workforce: Comprising representatives from private sectors Jordan Chamber of Industry, Jordan Chamber of Trade, Technical and Vocational skills development commission, Vocational training foundation and Employment development fund, Social security cooperation, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship and Al Hussein Technical University.
Liaison officers task force: this work force focus on specific initiatives such as National Employment Programme and TVET strategy implementation, and international collaborations. They handle the day-to-day operations, progress tracking, and troubleshooting.
Advisory experts: This body consists of external experts, employment promotion professionals, and representatives from international organizations. They offer guidance, ensure global best practices are followed, and provide a third-party perspective.
Regular Coordination Meetings:
• Bi-annual Review Meetings: Led by the sub-committees, these meetings assess progress, address any immediate challenges, and keep all parties aligned.
• Annual Meeting: All stakeholders, including external partners, gather annually to discuss performance, share success stories, learn from challenges, and set the direction for the next year.
This initiative constitutes an opportunity to assess and consistently improve the work aimed at advancing employment opportunities, thereby nurturing a more effective and all-encompassing approach in alignment with the 2030 Agenda. There are several dimensions in which ongoing scrutiny and assessment bring added value to this commitment, including:
1. Setting up a detailed action plan with clear indicators, targets, costs and time framework.
2. Data Collection and Analysis, Gather relevant data before and after the implementation of the commitment. This data includes employment rates, skills development statistics, and labor market conditions.
3. Engage with key stakeholders, such as government agencies, employers, vocational training institutions, and the target population (youth and women). Seek their feedback and opinions on the effectiveness of the commitment.
4. Evaluate how well the vocational and technical training programs were implemented.
5. Periodic Integrated Assessments: through Prime minister delivery unit Monitoring system.
6. Derive lessons learned and corrective actions based on the evaluation results.
UN agencies (ILO, UNWOMEN)
SDGS & Targets
Goal 1
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
1.1
By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.1.1
Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line by sex, age, employment status and geographical location (urban/rural)
1.2
By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.2.1
Proportion of population living below the national poverty line, by sex and age
1.2.2
Proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.3
Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
1.3.1
Proportion of population covered by social protection floors/systems, by sex, distinguishing children, unemployed persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, newborns, work-injury victims and the poor and the vulnerable
1.4
By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
1.4.1
Proportion of population living in households with access to basic services
1.4.2
Proportion of total adult population with secure tenure rights to land, (a) with legally recognized documentation, and (b) who perceive their rights to land as secure, by sex and by type of tenure
1.5
By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
1.5.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
1.5.2
Direct economic loss attributed to disasters in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP)
1.5.3
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
1.5.4
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
1.a
Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
1.a.1
Total official development assistance grants from all donors that focus on poverty reduction as a share of the recipient country's gross national income
1.a.2
Proportion of total government spending on essential services (education, health and social protection)
1.b
Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
1.b.1
Pro-poor public social spending
Goal 4
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
4.1
By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
4.1.1
Proportion of children and young people (a) in grades 2/3; (b) at the end of primary; and (c) at the end of lower secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in (i) reading and (ii) mathematics, by sex
4.1.2
Completion rate (primary education, lower secondary education, upper secondary education)
4.2
By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
4.2.1
Proportion of children aged 24–59 months who are developmentally on track in health, learning and psychosocial well-being, by sex
4.2.2
Participation rate in organized learning (one year before the official primary entry age), by sex
4.3
By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
4.3.1
Participation rate of youth and adults in formal and non-formal education and training in the previous 12 months, by sex
4.4
By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
4.4.1
Proportion of youth and adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skills, by type of skill
4.5
4.5.1
Parity indices (female/male, rural/urban, bottom/top wealth quintile and others such as disability status, indigenous peoples and conflict-affected, as data become available) for all education indicators on this list that can be disaggregated
4.6
By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
4.6.1
Proportion of population in a given age group achieving at least a fixed level of proficiency in functional (a) literacy and (b) numeracy skills, by sex
4.7
By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
4.7.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education and (d) student assessment
4.a
Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all
4.a.1
Proportion of schools offering basic services, by type of service
4.b
4.b.1
Volume of official development assistance flows for scholarships by sector and type of study
4.c
By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States
4.c.1
Proportion of teachers with the minimum required qualifications, by education level
Goal 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
5.1
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.1.1
Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non‑discrimination on the basis of sex
5.2
5.2.1
Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age
5.2.2
Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence
5.3
5.3.1
Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
5.3.2
Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age
5.4
Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
5.4.1
Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location
5.5
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
5.5.1
Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments
5.5.2
Proportion of women in managerial positions
5.6
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
5.6.1
Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care
5.6.2
Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education
5.a
Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
5.a.1
(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
5.a.2
Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control
5.b
5.b.1
Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex
5.c
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
5.c.1
Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment
Goal 8
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
8.1
8.1.1
Annual growth rate of real GDP per capita
8.2
Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors
8.2.1
Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person
8.3
Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
8.3.1
Proportion of informal employment in total employment, by sector and sex
8.4
Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead
8.4.1
Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP
8.4.2
Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP
8.5
8.5.1
Average hourly earnings of female and male employees, by occupation, age and persons with disabilities
8.5.2
Unemployment rate, by sex, age and persons with disabilities
8.6
8.6.1
Proportion of youth (aged 15-24 years) not in education, employment or training
8.7
Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms
8.7.1
Proportion and number of children aged 5‑17 years engaged in child labour, by sex and age
8.8
Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment
8.8.1
Fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workers, by sex and migrant status
8.8.2
Level of national compliance with labour rights (freedom of association and collective bargaining) based on International Labour Organization (ILO) textual sources and national legislation, by sex and migrant status
8.9
By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
8.9.1
Tourism direct GDP as a proportion of total GDP and in growth rate
8.10
Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all
8.10.1
(a) Number of commercial bank branches per 100,000 adults and (b) number of automated teller machines (ATMs) per 100,000 adults
8.10.2
Proportion of adults (15 years and older) with an account at a bank or other financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider
8.a
8.a.1
Aid for Trade commitments and disbursements
8.b
By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization
8.b.1
Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for youth employment, as a distinct strategy or as part of a national employment strategy
Goal 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.1.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
13.1.2
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
13.1.3
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
13.2
Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.2.1
Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
13.2.2
Total greenhouse gas emissions per year
13.3
Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.3.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment
13.a
Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.a.1
Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025
13.b
Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
13.b.1
Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
SDG 14 targets covered
Deliverables & Timeline
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Geographical coverage
Other beneficiaries
Private sector, Job seekers (Youth, Women, National Aid Fund beneficiaries, most vulnerable groups), Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MoPIC), Municipalities, Vocational training providers, Sectorial Skills councils.
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Contact Information
Lara Hussien Tameme, Acting director of Policies, strategies and institutional