{"id":6006,"date":"2012-07-07T21:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ufm-backs-project-to-develop-employability-skills-for-women-2\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T12:48:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:48:28","slug":"ufm-backs-project-to-develop-employability-skills-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/ufm-backs-project-to-develop-employability-skills-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"UfM backs project to develop employability skills for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barcelona, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0July 2012<\/strong>. The Senior Officials of the Union for the Mediterranean labeled on 28 June 2012 the project\u00a0<strong>\u201cSkills for Success &#8211; Employability Skills for Women\u201d<\/strong>. The project is an employability-skills-training programme directed at young, disadvantaged and unemployed women, who would have completed their secondary school education. Its aim is to assist participants in acquiring the knowledge, skills and tools needed to enter today\u00b4s challenging job market, as well as enhance women\u00b4s role as active members of society. The project\u2019s pilot phase will be implemented in the capitals of Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>The program will contribute towards the development of the participants\u2019 global communication abilities<em>via<\/em>\u00a0targeted English language training and enhanced professional skills, including computer and business skills development and job search tools and advice.<\/p>\n<p>By addressing the challenge of economic empowerment of the women in the region, the project contributes to the mitigation of the problem between high unemployment rates and secondary-level educated women in the Southern Mediterranean. In general terms, it also aims at the improvement of work-force skills necessary to support national and regional economies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSkills for Success \u2013 Employability Skills for Women\u201d is promoted by AMIDEAST, a private, non-profit organization established in 1951 and present in the five countries under the project\u2019s focus\u00a0<em>via<\/em>\u00a0regional offices.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO EPA \u00a9EU\/NEIGHBOURHOOD INFO CENTRE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new UfM project was labeled by the representatives of the 43 country members within the framework of their regular Senior Official Meeting, which took place in Barcelona on June 28th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,83,169],"tags":[],"priority-area":[205],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","category-affaires-civiles-sociales","category-social-civil-affairs-ufm-women-fr","priority-area-social-civil-affairs-fr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16563,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions\/16563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"priority-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/priority-area?post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}