Online NGO Dialogue: Refugee Employment Platform – facilitating job matching, coordination and data around refugee hiring
Online NGO Dialogue: Refugee Employment Platform – facilitating job matching, coordination and data around refugee hiring
NGOs and Refugee-led Organizations (RLOs) play a fundamental role across Europe in supporting forcibly displaced and stateless persons in becoming self-reliant and access decent work opportunities, including through information provision, counseling and referrals, engagement with the private sector, language, soft skills and technical training to become job-ready and advocacy.
To strengthen decent work prospects for refugees of all nationalities throughout Europe, UNHCR – together with partners – developed the Refugee Employment Platform initiative (REP), a digital tool that serves as entry point to connect companies with refugee job seekers. Its functions streamline the job placement process itself, while simultaneously linking refugees, employers and integration actors with employment support, skills training, and wrap-around services essential to maximizing job prospects, preparing refugees for the labor market in their host countries, and supporting companies to create sustainable employment.
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UNHCR’s Regional Bureau for Europe and ICVA cordially invite you to join for an online discussion of how NGOs and RLOs in Europe can support the extension of the initiative to other countries and how the REP can be used as a tool through access to information, upskilling opportunities and vacancies, and to facilitate engagement with other relevant stakeholders. Find out more here.