1. Report on Inclusive Growth Pillar work
SEE2020 Strategy
Report on Inclusive Growth Pillar work

2. Inclusive growth - place job creation and human development at the center of policy making
Employment: promote decent jobs for all
Competencies and Skills: ensure people receive the right mix of skills to succeed in the labor market
Health: improve health and well-being of all

3. Competencies and Inclusive Learning Labor Market Governance
Inclusive Growth
Pillar
Inclusive growth
Pillar targets
x. Increase the overall employment from 40.2% to 45.2%
Pillar Dimensions
Employment
Competencies and Inclusive Learning
Health
Labor Mobility
Labor Market Governance
Social economy
Dimension coordinator
Social Agenda 2020 Working Group
SEECEL
SEEHN
Other regional platforms involved in the dimension
CPESSEC
ERI SEE
SEETUF
AREC
External partners
World Bank; FES; LSEE; EC (DG Employment)
ETF
WHO
Monitoring system
RCC/OECD
National administration participants
Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs
Ministry of Education; Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs
Ministry of Health
CPESSEC – Center of Public Employment Services of Southeast European Countries
SEETUF – SEE Trade Union Forum
AREC – Adriatic Region Employers’ Center
FES – Friedrich Ebert Foundation
LSEE – London School of Economics European Institute
ERISEE – Education Reform Initiative in SEE
SEEHN – SEE Health Network
WHO – World Health Organization

4. Key actors and activities
Since 2011 and with support from FES, RCC has organized and hosted regional meetings, which discussed important social development priorities for the region. In 2013 a working group, composed of representatives of ministries of labor and social affairs, was established with the specific aim to develop the inclusive growth component of SEE2020. Two meetings of this group have identified the priority areas for regional action.
SEECEL – promotes structured cooperation in SEE on lifelong entrepreneurial learning since The Charter for Entrepreneurial Learning: The Keystone for Growth and Jobs, signed in 2012 confirms the commitment of governments to systematic development and progress in lifelong entrepreneurial learning through continued policy improvement, good practice sharing and regional cooperation. SEECEL has actively contribute to all RCC regional meetings on SEE2020.
SEE Health Network, a political and institutional forum that promotes cooperation on public health. The Third Health Ministers’ Forum - Health in All Policies in South-eastern Europe: a Shared Goal and Responsibility in 2011, focused on enhancing partnerships towards achieving equity and accountability in health through implementing a whole government approach and a focus on non-communicable diseases. A working meeting of the health network in Sarajevo in April 2013, set the stage for the preparation of the health dimension chapter of the SEE2020 strategy.

5. Employment 1. Labor mobility 2. Labor market governance
Establish a favorable regime for migrant workers from the region
Maximize the development impact of migration and promote circular migration
2. Labor market governance
Labor law reforms and balance between security and flexibility
Targeted policies for addressing employment issues related to youth, females, disadvantaged groups, and those operating in the informal economy
Participatory social dialogue

6. Employment (cont.) 3. Social economy
Social economy initiatives can play an important role in addressing social needs.
Set up an enabling environment for social economy initiatives, including legal and regulatory framework; policies, strategies and actions; incentives, support mechanisms and capacity building
Networking and cooperation for strengthening dialogue, sharing knowledge and resources, and establishing social economy development clusters

7. Competencies and inclusive education
Aim: bridge the gap between what the labor market needs
and what the education and training systems provide
Increased coordination and synergies among key stakeholders in the skills and labor markets
Increase the level of entrepreneurial and financial literacy across the SEE region
Entrepreneurship promotion across all levels and forms of learning systems
Progress through partnership
Entrepreneurship promotion in third-level education and links to innovation
Reinforcing networks, sharing of good practice and peer learning

8. Health
Aim: To improve the health and well-being of all those living in the SEE region
Actions:
- Harmonizing the cross-border public health and public health services legislation,
standards, procedures and developing mutual recognition and trust to enable the
creation of a Free Trade Area from public health perspective
Institutional strengthening and improving the governance of the health sector at
national, regional and community levels
- Improving the health gain of the populations in the SEE region through strengthening the delivery of universal and high quality health promoting services by the primary health care, hospitals and public health services

9. Underlying priorities
Data and research for evidence based policy making
Capacity building for implementing programs and for monitoring and evaluation