B) The National Employment Fund (FNE)
318. The National Employment 21-21 Fund, established by the law n° 99-101 of
31st December 1999 establishing the law on finances for the year 2000, is a
mechanism endowed with substantial extra resources and whose objective is to
improve the employability of the job seekers and to provide them with more job
opportunities, by helping them integrate in the salaried job sector or to create
small-scale projects or revenue generating sources.
319. Le FNE intervenes mainly in the following areas:
• The re-training of certificate holders in new information and
communication technology and in the National Anti-Iliteracy
Programme;
• The training of un-qualified youth for employment;
• Assistance in setting up a personal account;
• The relaunching of apprenticeship.
320. The interventions by this Fund, since its creation up to the end of the year
2005, affected close to 565,000 job seekers, whose distribution by level is as
follows:
Educational level
Higher Education
Secondary Education
Primary and lower level education
Total
Number
46,016
92,986
425,925
564,927
(%)
8.1
16.5
75.4
100.0
C) Specific Programmes
321. Specific programmes, aimed at reducing unemployment in certain areas
which are characterized by a rate of unemployment higher than the national
average (13.9% in 2004), had been put in place. These programmes had been
defined by the various intervening parties concerned at the regional and local
levels and allowed the provision of training and reintegration opportunities in the
form of adaptation courses to professional life, of training-reconversion
responding to the needs of the job market, the creation of micro-entreprises…).
322. Specific programmes had also been put in place for the employment of
categories with special needs (the disabled, the job seekers from needy families,
job seekers having waited for more than two years, job seekers without family
support). These programmes allowed, during the year 2005, close to 14 thousand
job seekers, of whom 6 thousand were holders of higher certificates, to get into
the job market (salaried employment, independent employment).
323. Courses for initiation to professional life I (SIVP I) and the employmenttraining contract (CEF) guarantee those with higher certificates or those with
professional training an opportunity to prepare for employment as well as for an
indepth knowledge of the real work environment. Higher certificate holders and
holders of professional training certificates benefitted from these programmes.
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