The SDC started a Youth Employment Project in 2009 in Bosnia and Herzegovina aiming to give young women and men better chances to enter the labour market, and to improve the efficiency of the country’s public employment services. Today, a network has been established of 25 Job Clubs fully integrated into the Bosnia and Herzegovina’s public employment services. Each Club is headed by a leader who works with groups of young unemployed people, improves their job search skills and encourages them to actively look for different opportunities on the market. The Clubs also develop opportunities for self-employment. The recipe has proved successful, as more than 4,000 young people have found a job as part of the Youth Employment Project since 2009. Switzerland’s Cooperation Programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina aims to support the country’s ongoing transition and process of integration in the European Union. The SDC has been active in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1996 through bilateral cooperation projects and international programmes.
Stronger public employment services for better labour market integration