Employment Minister calls for implementing cooperation projects with French Development Agency

Tunis: Employment and Vocational Training Minister Lotfi Dhiab stressed, during a working session devoted to cooperation projects between the ministry and the French Development Agency (AFD), the need to activate exceptional measures so as to accelerate the completion of pending joint projects, particularly those targeting young people in the field of employment and vocational training, reads a statement of the Employment Ministry.Meeting with an AFD delegation led by Head of Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Employment Project in North Africa Quentin Lebegue, the Minister reviewed the progress of the programmes and projects carried out within the framework of cooperation between the two parties and the difficulties impeding their implementation, namely the "Youth and Employment" project, «the New Chance Programme» as well as support programmes to training and professional integration.The minister welcomed the high-level cooperation between the two parties, calling for speeding up the i mplementation of all project programmes.Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse