ensuring that the baby-boom cohorts on younger, working-age people and that stay longer on the labour market and this could result in tensions between the remain healthy, active and autonomous generations. for longer after retirement. In addition, the retirement, and especially Employers can play a crucial role retirement, of older employees can along with their older employees and often leave large gaps in the knowledge, trade unions in creating programmes skills and experience that are available to that aid the retention of these any organisation or company. employees. Stakeholder map To ensure a holistic approach to the needs of the long-term unemployed and those seeking to further their career or employment prospects, it is necessary to forge strong relationships between a range of different bodies and agencies but, as indicated above, they may not be accustomed to cooperating with each other. The map below provides an indication of the sorts of bodies or agencies that might be involved but it is no means a definitive listing as there are many variations in the nature of service provision and responsibilities in different regions and Member States. Stakeholder Needs and expectations Constraints Network Primary stakeholders Target groups of ESF To ensure a better match Lack of commonly participants and, in between the needs of the available information particular: participants and the nature of the services that are Groups of long-term Lack of suitable being provided unemployed, locations for regardless of sex or dialogue age; To ensure that the ESF Groups of individuals becomes known as a seeking to advance Lack of programme that is relevant their careers or job resources/capacity for to real life situations of its prospects. outreach activities target groups Secondary stakeholders National To make between EU Many of the agencies and Intermediaries such as and field-level practitioners services to people NGOs schools, training turn for help operate in To share/test new providers, guidance narrowly predetermined approaches to meeting the services including the fields of responsibility that needs of the target groups Public Employment can only provide partial To gain access to new Services, employers and responses to their overall tools/resources/guidelines trade unions, placement situation or to the set of agencies, social needs that they present. To evaluate the impact of services, youth the new approaches organisations, voluntary
ensuring that the baby-boom cohorts stay longer on the labour market and remain healthy, active and autonomous for longer after retirement. Employers can play a crucial role along with their older employees and trade unions in creating programmes that aid the retention of these employees. on younger, working-age people and that this could result in tensions between the generations. In addition, the retirement, and especially retirement, of older employees can often leave large gaps in the knowledge, skills and experience that are available to any organisation or company. Stakeholder map To ensure a holistic approach to the needs of the long-term unemployed and those seeking to further their career or employment prospects, it is necessary to forge strong relationships between a range of different bodies and agencies but, as indicated above, they may not be accustomed to cooperating with each other. The map below provides an indication of the sorts of bodies or agencies that might be involved but it is no means a definitive listing as there are many variations in the nature of service provision and responsibilities in different regions and Member States. Stakeholder Needs and expectations Constraints Network Primary stakeholders Target groups of ESF participants and, in particular: Groups of long-term unemployed, regardless of sex or age; Groups of individuals seeking to advance their careers or job prospects. To ensure a better match between the needs of the participants and the nature of the services that are being provided To ensure that the ESF becomes known as a programme that is relevant to real life situations of its target groups Lack of commonly available information Lack of suitable locations for dialogue Lack of resources/capacity for outreach activities Secondary stakeholders National Intermediaries such as NGOs schools, training providers, guidance services including the Public Employment Services, employers and trade unions, placement agencies, social services, youth organisations, voluntary To make between EU and field-level practitioners To share/test new approaches to meeting the needs of the target groups To gain access to new tools/resources/guidelines To evaluate the impact of the new approaches Many of the agencies and services to people turn for help operate in narrowly predetermined fields of responsibility that can only provide partial responses to their overall situation or to the set of needs that they present.