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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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