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The FEMP advocates economic initiatives from the cities to create jobs,
The cities should be useful to create jobs and meet the needs of its inhabitants, not only to market and build on the sustainable human development, coinciding with the UN approach based on productivity, equity and sustainability . In this way, the Secretary General has spoken of the FEMP, Isaura Leal, at the opening of the Seminar on active employment policies that takes place in Madrid, organized by the ILO.
The key, according to the representative of the FEMP is that economic development is made "by and with people, not only for them, and therefore advocated the need to implement," from the public, "political active employment as a response to the crisis. " In this regard, said that all levels of government, especially local governments, have the same responsibility and the same right and obligation to participate in decision-making.
The seminar "The role of active employment policies as response to the crisis. Comparative Experiences ", organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the FEMP and the Ministry of Labour and Immigration, brings together experts and representatives of different government to find ways to ensure an exit from the economic crisis accompanied by employment growth.
The Mayor of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Nuria Marín i Martínez, and the Mayor of Puente Genil and Chairman of the Committee on Economic Development of the FEMP, Manuel Baena, participated in the Panel Discussion on active employment policies on young people .
According to ILO, the active labor market policies should play a complementary role in responding to the crisis and, consequently, we must make more concerted efforts to prevent long-term unemployment and helping people find work.
In this scenario, local governments "are more necessary than ever", according to the FEMP, because backbone throughout the country and ensure social cohesion and they know better than anyone the problems of people and can arrive earlier to provide solutions . The Secretary General of the Federation said that the municipalities can manage local development agencies, with which to enhance the industrial and business development, business parks, sustainable design or plan the logistics and communications business areas to take advantage of positive synergies.
The councils, he explained, also can design learning paths tailored to the needs of businesses established in the municipalities through Local Agencies and Employment Training and support to entrepreneurs for any innovative idea and no talent is wasted. In the same way they are trained to mediate with viable financial institutions to make loans to SMEs and freelancers.
Isaura Leal, said that local governments can create effective instruments of labor market on equal opportunity, enhance the creative capacity of citizens and implement energy efficiency policies, citing them as examples of innovation policies that can be driven from the municipal level. "Therefore, he pointed out from the FEMP salute the State Strategy for Innovation of the Government included as one of the major routes of the country cooperation."
Active employment policies
At the start of the seminar also participated, among others, the Secretary-General for Employment, Maravillas Rojo, the Chairman of the Economic and Social Council of Spain, Marcos Peña, the Deputy Minister of Employment, Women and Immigration of the Community of Madrid, José Ignacio Fernandez, and Executive Director Employment Sector ILO, José Manuel Salazar.
Maravillas Rojo said the action "glocal", act global, think local-as one of the requirements for designing active employment policies and placed special emphasis on training and recruitment incentives and brokering. In this regard, he noted the need to adapt the syllabi to the real needs of enterprises and promoting use of new technologies, better positioning in the job portals.
The Secretary General also opted to facilitate employment transitions within the same companies and between them and others, and also delve into the discovery of new sources of employment, arising from the new economic and social changes. At this point, as an example the search for opportunities that might arise from the "complementarity of interests and professions."
The representative of the Ministry of Labour and Immigration said the Government's efforts in these areas, noting that the State Budget 2011, the basis for creation of employment growth for the first time a total of 7. 359 million euros, representing approximately 0.7% of GDP. An amount that is divided into 2,230 million for employment programs, 2,678 for training and 2,450 for recruitment incentives (bonuses).
The Mayor of L'Hospitalet, Nuria Marín i Martínez, meanwhile, said that "now is the time to join forces and ideas between all the administrations and to become more effective and efficient for the good of the citizens." Since the municipalities are willing to get involved and work to promote active employment policies in our municipalities, "he said.
