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3rth edition, September 2014 RisiAlbania is a youth employment project that focuses on achieving systemic changes in the Albanian labour market in order to improve access to employment and income opportunities for young women and men. Project duration: November 2013 – October 2017
RisiAlbania wants to make the labour market work for young women and men in Albania, by promoting job creation and effective job intermediation. In order to achieve our goal, RisiAlbania works with a wide range of partners from the private and public sector as well as civil society.
Our address & contact details: Rr. Ismail Qemali, P18, H.3, Apt. 15 Tirana, Albania Tel : +355 (0) 422 48 52 Email:
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Visit our website: www.risialbania.al
Spotlight on Job Placement Services Leading job matching provider offering new online services for SMEs and young job seekers. One of the goals of RisiAlbania is to increase the access of young people in job information and opportunities. For this purpose RisiAlbania will support one of the leading job portals, www.duapune.com to offer new online services for job seekers and SMEs in a commercially sustainable manner. The cooperation agreement between RisiAlbania and DM Consulting signed on 31 July, 2014 aims at supporting duapune.com in developing new value added services to the businesses and young job-seeking community in several payable services packages. Risi will provide consultancy for the development of new services related to searching engine, easy job application, reporting analytics, marketing and expansion of the services; and online payments. It is expected that the new service will become available to SMEs and job seekers from September 2014.
Conference “Disseminating Labour Market Information: New Business for National Media” Risi aims to stimulate national mainstream media to actively disseminate Labour Market Information to young people and their parents, thereby improving their education, career choices and employment opportunities. On 2 July 2014, Risi organized a conference with representatives of national media to introduce the opportunity to use labor market information as potential business for them. Risi invited in the conference Prof. Werner D'Inka, the editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from Germany who presented the experience and best practice of this renowned international media. Risi presented in the conference the opportunity of support it can provide to national media companies to develop programs on Labor Market issues and manage them on a commercial basis as a business. As a result of the conference and further meetings, through Risi support, three national media have decided to broadcast programs on labor market information for young people.
Upcoming events 30 October 2014
October-November 2014
November 2014
Presentation of Marketing Diagnosis Results Business service providers will present results of marketing diagnosis in more than 20 agro-processing companies, as part of their training process.
Three national media will start attractive Programs on Labour Market Through Risi support, three media will start to disseminate information on labor markets targeting needs of young people.
Celesi job matching provider starts recruitment services Celesi will start for the first time job matching and recruitment services for low and middle skilled young people.
Supporting Food Processing, Tourism and ICT sectors Launch of the Risi Initiative “Facilitate Access to Finance for Agro-Businesses” On September 12, 2014 Risi presented the research consultancy findings on seasonality of agro-processing to financial institutions. The aim of this research was to inform financial institutions on the seasonality of agro processing, with the intention to support banks in offering more tailor made products, such as loans which in turn, would increase investments and generate more employment opportunities in the sector. The consultancy focused on introducing the seasonality of 12 agro-processing sub-sectors, which were considered as sectors with interest from financial institutions. It was attended by eight representatives of different banks and five representatives of micro-financing institutions. At the end of the event, participants said they found the information provided very useful. RisiAlbania team is following up on this initiative with individual meetings with banks to further design support needed from banks, in order to tailor credit to agro-processors at more favorable terms.
“Marketing Initiative for Agro-processors” Training of Business Service Providers (BSPs) Following an awareness raising activity for agro-processors and BSPs on a new training opportunity, on 19-20 September 2014, the two-day training “Marketing Initiative for Agro-processors” was organized by BiznesAlbania in which 20 business service providers (BSPs) participated. The training talked about challenges consultants face when advising their clients, lack of formalization in the relationship between Agro-processors and BSPs, food safety standards, how they can approach clients and how to conduct company’s diagnostics. During the training, the Marketing Manager of Carrefour gave useful insights about the criteria a certain product should fulfill to enter their retail store and information about marketing tools that lead to increased revenue. After the training, BSPs will approach the agro-processing companies to conduct a marketing needs diagnosis and prepare tailored marketing services to meet the needs of each company.
Market System Analysis of the Tourism Sector Suggests Innovative Interventions Risi completed a Market System Analysis in Tourism sector determining the symptoms of underperformance at tourism business level and uncover the underlying systemic constraints to growth. Following the analysis, RisiAlbania has identified three main clusters of interventions that would drive positive change and create jobs: 1) interventions that tackle the lack of market intelligence; 2) interventions that tackle the lack of online visibility and promotion of tourism businesses; 3) interventions that facilitate a more diverse touristic product by making better use of Albania’s potential. RisiAlbania is validating these recommendations with market actors and will start to implement interventions in tourism sector in 2014.
Market System Analysis of the ICT sector Started On 21 September 2014, Risi started an in-depth and participatory research on the constraints and opportunities in the ICT sectors in Albania. The research will be completed through November 2014 and soon afterwards Risi will start interventions in this sector.
