United Nations Resident Coordinator in Tunisia Arnaud Peral proposed in a recent meeting with Minister of Employment and Vocational Training Lotfi Dhiab to hold the second edition of the Regional High-Level Meeting on Young People's Learning, Skilling, Social Inclusion and Transition to Decent Work next June in Tunisia. This second meeting will bring together the representatives of 20 Arab countries, 250 participants and ten ministers of employment and vocational training, reads a ministry press release. The meeting is intended to exchange expertise and help take stock of the Tunisian experience in vocational training and employment, the second chance mechanisms, digital transition and green skills. The UN official said there is readiness to back the ministry's efforts to set mid and long-term strategic objectives and provide needed support to help the Tunisian government attain its hoped-for quantitative and qualitative targets in connection to youth employment and decent emplopyment. The minister said i t is imperative to further optimise the management of international cooperation projects and praised cooperation with the UN. The ministry is working in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation to revise the national employment strategy, the purpose being to make sure its responds to the targets set for 2035 and the large-scale reform programme. Cooperation and partnership between the ministry and UN agencies in vocational training, employment and entrepreneurship was also debated. Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse
Strong wind expected Sunday night and Monday
Strong northwest wind is expected to blow on Sunday night and Monday in the north, the midland, heights and coasts and locally in the south, according to the National Institute of Meteorology (French: INM). The wind is set to ease gradually inland overnight on Monday. Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse