Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Mauritania (Ratification: 1971)

1. Coordination of the employment policy with poverty reduction. The Committee notes the brief information provided by the Government in its report received in 2004. In reply to the comments made in 2003, the Government indicates that the employment information system (SIME) is continuing its activities regularly on the establishment of a database on labour supply and demand, the compilation of a file of vocational, technical training and higher education establishments and a file of "employers in the structured sector". It also states that the SIME will be incorporated into the National Agency for the Promotion of Youth Employment and that it will function as a labour market monitoring body. The Committee requests the Government to supply in its next report information on the employment policy measures adopted as a consequence of the new information system on the labour market (Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention).

2. The Government also indicates that, under the strategic framework to combat poverty, several activities have been undertaken to promote employment, including the implementation of labour-intensive programmes and the establishment, from January 2005, of a project to create a youth employment promotion agency. The Committee requests the Government to supply information on the implementation of these programmes and their impact on the labour market.

3. Participation of the social partners. The Government states that the principle underlying its programmes since the formulation of the strategic framework to combat poverty up to the sectoral programme is that of a participatory approach. Occupational organizations and civil society are thus involved in all levels of the process. It also mentions that the Ministry of the Public Administration Service and Employment is currently engaged in studying how to integrate more closely the employment aspect in the next strategic framework to combat poverty. The Committee requests the Government to refer in its next report to specific examples of consultations with the representatives of the persons affected, including representatives from the rural sector and the informal sector (Article 3).

4. Part V of the report form. The Government mentions that cooperation between the ILO, UNDP, the Commissariat for Human Rights, Poverty, Alleviation and Integration (CDHLCPI) is continuing and has resulted in the formulation of a strategy for the promotion and use of microbusinesses in the poverty alleviation campaign. The Government adds that this strategy has had a satisfactory impact on the labour market. The Committee requests the Government to supply in its next report specific examples of action undertaken on the basis of this strategy as well as the results of this action on the labour market.