Angola

International, MNA | The Angolan labour minister has said that Covid-19 "destroyed" half of the 490000 jobs created in the last five years, considering that ...

“We also support the government’s efforts to create an enabling environment for the development of the private sector and we also support the development of skills so that young people can become productively engaged,” he said. “The government is aware that work is essential for the subsistence of Angolan families, the act of working guarantees a position of dignity for the worker, not only to allow for the financial maintenance of families, but also to build a factor of integration and social inclusion,” she noted. “The government is committed to promoting the implementation of a National Employment Programme, as an instrument for coordinating measures aimed at reducing unemployment levels and regional disparities, ensuring harmonious local development and boosting labour market policies,” she said. According to Teresa Rodrigues Dias, the report, drawn up by the World Bank in partnership with the Angolan national employment and professional training institute (Inefop), contains a set of policy guidelines to be considered in the context of the government’s employment strategy and programme. The Angolan government has adopted large-scale, integrated policy measures focused on four fundamental pillars, namely support for companies, employment and income, stimulation of the economy and employment, protection of workers in the workplace and social dialogue to find solutions, she said. According to the Angolan minister for public administration, labour and social security, the economic recession, aggravated by Covid-19, was at the base of the high unemployment rate “that has devastated” everyone, “with particular incidence on the young population”.