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Current
Projects Egypt Education Reform Project
(ERP) Energy Sector Technical Advisory
& Assistance Services (Energy II) FIELD-Support: Financial
Integration, Economic Leveraging, Broad-Based Dissemination Focus on Results: Enhancing
Capacity across Sectors in Transition Countries (FORECAST) Local Economic Development Initiative Moldova Agribusiness Development
Program Orientation Visits, Conferences,
Workshops, Training and Outreach Activities People, Energy & Development (PED) Services for
Training, Educational Exchanges, & Professional Programs (One STEP) Strategic
Technical Assistance for Results through Training (START) Support for Economic Growth and
Institutional Reform (SEGIR) Youth & Community Action
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Promoting the Employment of Disabled Romanians Under the US Department of
Labor-sponsored “Promoting the Employment of Romanians with Disabilities
Initiative, the National Agency of Employment of the Republic of Romania, the
Academy for Educational Development, and the Motivation Romania Foundation partnered
to build the capacities of eight pilot NAE Employment Counseling Centers in Iaşi, Focşani, Argeş, Olt, Caraş-Severin, Sibiu, Cluj, and Bucureşti to
provide employment counseling and placement services to persons with
disabilities (PWDs). The project also increased
awareness among the public in general—and employers in particular—on the
benefits of employing persons with disabilities to ensure that all
individuals in Romanian society are provided equal opportunity to contribute
to the nation’s economic development by participating in the workforce. The initiative consisted of a series of training
activities and technical assistance initiatives directed at increasing the
capacity of the eight NAE county-level employment centers. In addition, a
number of related tools and resource manuals have been developed. Specific
project activities included: Training and
Technical Assistance AED conducted five in-country training events and a third-country
study tour for selected trainees drawn from the NAE and the NAPD. AED’s disabilities specialists have also provided
technical assistance to selected NAE employment centers in conjunction with each training. For additional details on these training
interventions and related pictures, please click on the appropriate title
below: Facility and Equipment
Assessment Training: This training provided four NGO
representatives with a detailed understanding of how to conduct facilities
and equipment assessments to ensure each of the NAE Employment Centers was
accessible to persons with disabilities. Successful
Practices for Increasing the Employment of People with Disabilities: During
this in-country training, staff of the NAE and the NAPD
were trained on successful strategies for increasing the employment of
disabled persons. Study Tour on
Successful Practices for Increasing the Employment of People with
Disabilities: Representatives of the NAE took
part in a study tour to Employment Counseling
Training: This series of three in-country
workshops focused on building the skills of NAE employment counselors and
mediators to improve employment counseling and job placements services for
persons with disabilities. Follow-Up to Employment
Counseling: During this December 2004
workshop, the participants reviewed what they learned through the earlier
trainings and outlined how the approaches they studied have been applied. The
program also provided a forum for the participants to identify gaps and means
of addressing them. Employers’ Forum
on Disability Employer Outreach: The project team formed an Employers’ Forum on Disability to
actively engage employers in discussions on and the promotion of the benefits
of hiring persons with disabilities. Materials and
Resources During the first 15 months of the project, AED—in close
cooperation with the Motivation Romania Foundation—developed a number of
useful resources that the NAE and others are able to use well after AED's involvement is over. These included:
Information developed during the project (training
manuals, curriculum, and written guidance) has been put into a format that
can be easily posted on the NAE and AED websites. |
Participants
learning how to assess whether a facility is accessible to persons with
disabilities. |
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