Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Human Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142) - Algeria (Ratification: 1984)

Article 1 of the Convention. Implementation of policies and programmes of vocational guidance and training. The Committee notes the report sent in October 2009 describing activities undertaken in 2008, particularly those aimed at increasing the provision of training and improving its conditions. In 2009, the Government stated that the guidance machinery set up by the Ministerial Order of June 2005 was being revised. With regard to matching training given and qualifications required, the Committee notes the Government’s information concerning the frequency at which the “nomenclature of occupational specializations” is reorganized and restructured. The nomenclature encompassed training in 301 specializations, divided among 20 occupational branches covering all sectors of activity of the national economy. The Government also indicated that the provision of training, restructured in 2007, provided for 80 specializations aimed at young persons who had left school early. Moreover, the “literacy and skills mechanism”, established in 2008, aims to provide young people with the possibility of acquiring qualifications. A partnership with the National Microcredit Management Agency (ANGEM) concerning the appointment of facilitators to vocational training establishments has been set up. The Government reported on a training and retraining programme, within the framework of the National Unemployment Insurance Fund, in which 10,949 affiliated persons benefited in terms of retraining and 2,201 affiliated persons benefited in terms of certification validating existing occupational experience. The Committee invites the Government to indicate in its next report how coordination in ensured between policies and programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training pursued since 2008, on the one hand, and employment and public employment services, on the other hand (Article 1(1)–(4) of the Convention). In this regard, the Committee requests the Government to supply up-to-date information in its next report on systems of general, technical and vocational education, educational and vocational guidance and vocational training (Article 2). It requests the Government to specify the results achieved with regard to vocational training through measures taken in favour of unemployed graduates, particularly the number of beneficiaries and the types of training provided. Moreover, as previously indicated, and to enable it to examine the role and place of the social partners in the new legislation, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply detailed information on the cooperation of employers’ and workers’ organizations in the formulation and implementation of policies and programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training, as provided for by Article 5 of the Convention.

Article 3. Persons in difficulty. In its previous report, the Government indicated that providing training for specific categories was a statutory task of the vocational training and education sector. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information on the manner in which these categories have been defined and on the effective contribution of the different measures to the lasting integration in employment of the persons concerned. It recalls that, in its observation of 2006, it also asked the Government to provide copies of the agreements concluded with partners acting in the field of vocational training of women, to indicate whether training for housewives was available throughout the country and provide relevant statistics where they were available.

Part VI of the report form. Application in practice. The Committee once again requests the Government to forward any reports or other information available on the implementation of vocational training programmes targeting certain fields, certain branches of economic activity or certain groups of the population. The Government might consider it useful to refer to the guidelines on education, training and lifelong learning contained in the Human Resources Development Recommendation, 2004 (No. 195).

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2014.]