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The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in September 2003 regarding its direct request of 1998. The Government approved an integrated national programme of social action for the mobilization of resources for the more remote rural areas. The National Institute for Employment and Vocational Training actively participated in the training of unemployed persons. One activity carried out with ILO support enabled some 1,350 persons to benefit from vocational training for the creation of micro-enterprises in the Chókwe region. The Committee hopes that the Government’s next report will contain updated information on the manner in which the employment services contribute to full employment and the use of productive resources, in accordance with Articles 1 to 3 of the Convention, in particular in the framework of the Plan of Action for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty (PARPA 2002-04). Please provide additional information on the following points in the next report.

Articles 4 and 5. The Government indicates that a number of draft legislative texts have been submitted to the social partners (protection of persons with disabilities, placement of foreign workers, strategy for employment and vocational training). Please indicate how the cooperation of employers’ and workers’ representatives is ensured in the organization and operation of the employment service and specify whether a tripartite administrative board has been established for the National Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (INEFP).

Articles 7 and 8. Please continue to describe the progress made as a result of cooperation with the ILO and international aid with regard to the vocational guidance and placement activities of the employment services to meet the special needs of demobilized military personnel, persons with disabilities, young persons and other categories of workers.

Article 11. In its report, the Government refers to the adoption of Decree No. 6/2001 of 20 February 2001 establishing rules governing the activities of private employment agencies and the creation of 13 agencies for the placement of workers in the national territory and of an agency for the placement of workers abroad. The Committee requests the Government to specify how effective cooperation is ensured between public employment services and private employment agencies. In this respect, the Government may find it useful to refer to the provisions of the Private Employment Agencies Convention (No. 181) and Recommendation (No. 188), 1997, adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 88th Session (June 1997).

Part IV of the report form. Please provide any available statistical information on the nature and volume of the activities of existing employment centres, including the number of job applications received, the number of vacancies posted and the number of persons placed in employment by these centres. The Committee would be particularly grateful if the Government would provide information on the manner in which the effectiveness of the recruitment and placement of workers is ensured through the referral of applicants and vacancies from one employment office to another, as well as the manner in which the centres cooperate in the administration of measures to assist the unemployed (Article 6(a)(iv) and (d) of the Convention).