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PROJECT BACKGROUND

Project Title 140197: Support to Employment Creation in Mongolia (SECiM)
project
Implementing agency: United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in
cooperation with United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
and Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry
Resource Partner European Union
Project Contact:
Name: Mr. Ivan Kral, Project Manager, UNIDO
Mr. Ali Badarneh, Project Manager, UNIDO
Mr. Riccardo Savigliano, Allotment Holder, UNIDO
Mr. Ralf Bredel, UNIDO Representative OiC
Ms. Munkhbolor Gungaa, National Project Coordinator, UNIDO
Phone: +796 70180180; +43 1 26026 3762
Email: i.kral@unido.org; m.gungaa@unido.org
Annual Report Type: Progress report
Reporting Period: 1 February 2020 – 30 November 2020
Project overview: The SECiM has two components: Component 1 (C1) aims to reform
employment policy and provide institutional support (it was finalized during 2020) and
Component 2 (C2) which pilots employment creation in five specific food and non-food value
chains, namely: (i) meat, (ii) dairy, (iii) textile (cashmere, camel and yak hair, wool), (iv) leather
and (v) vegetables. UNIDO, under an UN-UN Agreement with FAO, implements a part of C2
in meat, dairy, textiles, and leather value chains. This report covers UNIDO inputs for C2.
While productivity, competitiveness and employment creation are the overall objectives of the
action, especially for vulnerable rural people and women and youth, the ‘decent work’ concept
makes both components interdependent for overall success.
The C2 partners are line Ministries for agriculture and labour including the Ministry of Food
and Agriculture Light Industry (MOFALI) and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection
(MoLSP) but also includes other stakeholders such as, government agencies (e.g. General
Agency for Specialized Inspection (GASI) and Mongolian Agency for Standards and Metrology
(MASM)), local governments and support institutions and services, research institutions, think
tanks, academic and vocational training institutions, business/trade associations and private
sector companies operating in all the value chains.
Project beneficiaries are owners and staff of private sector entities, small and large (including
cooperatives) operating in the value chains, local administrates; municipal, aimag (province)
and soum (district) governments and support institutions as NGOs and local civil society and
organizations, academic, research and vocational education and training institutions.
Expected result of the C2: Conditions and capacity for private sector employment creation
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strengthened in specific value chains. As set out in the Action Fiche The main activities
include: (i) Participatory analysis of the selected value chains, (ii) strengthening capacity for
coordinated action to enhance the added value, and (iii) identifying and assessing options for
specific measures to assist value chain actors in overcoming obstacles for expansion of
activities/increasing value added.

1 See Project Document GCP/MON/014/EC Support to Employment Creation in Mongolia (SECiM)
Component 2: Piloting quality private sector work in selected livestock and vegetable value chains
2 Annex 1 to Financing Agreement No. 2014/037-454 Technical and Administrative Provisions (December 2013).

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