Labor Market Assessment

SRD Center assesses existing skills and opportunities in the labor market to help organizations tailor trainings and other livelihoods interventions. Special consideration is given to special needs for supporting women and men from urban and rural settings particularly young women, returning migrant workers, young workers in rural economies, refugees, persons with disabilities, and other groups with special needs.

SRD Center conducts labor market assessments for livelihoods protection and youth employment programs in response to poverty and unemployment in refugees and other vulnerable communities. Our labor market assessment approach focuses on:

• Major changes in employment demand in target populations
• Skills development / Vocational Training to align it with changing labour market demands.
• Enterprise resilience and development: analyze effects of conflicts and COVID-19 economic consequences on business environment - both for the existing Enterprises as well as for new business start-ups, assess the new opportunities, challenges and identify solutions to support young entrepreneurs for starting their enterprising activities.
• Employments through Employment-Intensive approaches: analyze the most vulnerable groups and identify avenues to start ‘employment-intensive approaches’ in different economic sectors including agriculture, construction, sanitary infrastructure, community service, health/education service, care-economy, livelihoods, and others - for offering short-to medium term employments to the vulnerable groups.

Some of the LMA activities include: 

• The Plight of the Labour Market in the Zaatari and Azraq Refugee Camps in Jordan (FNA, 2019)
• Employability Skills “TOT” Workshop, ‘Women’s Economic Linkages and Employment Development (WE LEAD), WUSC, 2021.
• Business Skills Development Program in Za’atri Refugee Camp, UN Women.
• Labour Market Assessment 2021 ICMC (International Catholic Migration Commission).
• Study on Identifying Cash for Work Opportunities for Women in Za’atari Refugee Camp (Oxfam Jordan, November 2018).
• Evaluation of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services for Vulnerable Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan, Jordan, International Medical Corps (IMC), 2021.
• Baseline Study Report - Livelihood Planning and Guidance for Youth Project in Jordan (World Vision, 2019).
• Project‎ of UNFPA Programme in Arab States, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
• Y-PEER Bosnia and Herzegovina - Y-PEER: Strengthening and Expanding Capacity for Delivery of High-Quality Peer Education Systems in Arab States, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
• Advancing TVET for Youth Employability and Sustainable Development (UNESCO).