What? POKSI or Kelompok Aksi (Action Group) is an innovative workforce development model established by SINERGI that will support creative interaction among and between a diverse group of champions—individuals committed to economic growth through more inclusive and equitable labor market dynamics in Central Java.

The action group will be the trigger to underscore the importance of discussions that are based on and lead to joint action by using language that is familiar to government counterparts (as opposed to Kelompok Kerja [Working Group] commonly used by government)—yet denotes a change in mindset.

The result will lead to increased awareness of the need for integrated and collaborative approaches at the provincial level to address workforce development concerns, particularly for Poor & Vulnerable Youth (P&V Youth).

How? By bringing together in the POKSI workforce champions who are already dedicated to improve coordination, co-designing, co-implementing solutions, and advocating for a stronger and more diverse workforce ecosystem, SINERGI will break another standard development approach mold.

POKSI (Action Group) will work together with SINERGI to facilitate co-designed innovative solutions to mainstream P&V Youth into labor market – to unlock wider range of employability opportunities. Generated innovative solutions should align and support provincial government’s targets or strategy for poverty alleviation by addressing challenges those P&V Youth, 18-34 years old, have to access labor market.

POKSI Meetings

POKSI meetings act as the platform for knowledge, information, and experience sharing between POKSI members in developing co-designed innovative solutions for inclusive workforce in Central Java.  .

Meeting POKSI will be conducted nine (9) times with the following agenda: (1) identification of thematic inclusive workforce programs focusing on poor and vulnerable youth, women, and people with disabilities; (2) development of co-design inovative solutions and the action plan; (3) development of the selection criteria for proposals eligible to be funded by SINERGI through the Opportunity Fund; (4) development of the Opportunity Fund monitoring and evaluation manual; (5) development of the Opportunity Fund implementation manual; (6)evaluation of the Opportunity Fund program outcomes; (7) planning of the major events implementation (3P: Pemuda-Perusahaan-Pemerintah, Human Resource workshop, dan Youth Festival).

National level dialogue is a forum that will bring in national level champions to share best practices, provide support and discuss inclusive workforce key issues as well as the establishment of POKSI at provincial level. The dialogue about strategic inclusive workforce issues provides reference of policy guideline development.

Workforce Dialogues will be conducted 5 (five) times. Rajawali Foundation will be in charge for 3 (three) Workforce Dialogues in Jakarta, while Transformasi will be in charge for the rest of 2 (two) workforce dialogues in Semarang. The last forum will facilitate dissemination of lesson learned and recommendation of better policy guidance.

Prior to dialogues with national champions, SINERGI will conduct mapping to identify persons as champion at Minsitries, Chamber of Commerce, Industries, associations, CSOs and universities.

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In order to achieve the improvement of inter-institutional coordination at the national and local levels towards project’s objective, SINERGI will, throughout the project cycle, conduct below four major events to address issues critical to the project and that demonstrate the importance of collaboration as an indispensable approach to promoting inclusive and equitable economic prosperity:

• Pemuda-Perusahaan-Pemerintah (3P) The goal of this one-day event is to begin connecting labor market dots—unemployed P&V youth, employers, local governments (including vocational training centers) and academe responsible for representing private and corporate citizens
• Human Resource Conference Private sector leaders together with government officials, and civil society and academic leaders—including women, youth and persons with disabilities—sharing perspectives, approaches and solutions to connect the needs of employers with the existing and potential assets of P&V youth
• Youth-Force Festival This Positive Youth Development-inspired event will inject a festive atmosphere to the traditional job fair approach wherein job seekers and employers will be brought together to meet and discuss workforce issues and potential employment opportunities
• Awareness Raising Campaign Increasing awareness about the full range of workforce challenges, opportunities, best practices and success stories is critical to fostering productive collaboration and building a diverse constituency of support for inclusive and equitable economic growth

As POKSI (Action Group) facilitates the co-designed innovative solutions to mainstream P&V Youth into labor market , there is an opportunity fund that can be channeled to accelerate kind of co-designed innovative solutions during pilot phase – the innovative solutions that should be developed on the basis of locally-derived, locally-relevant and locally owned development approach. Going forward, it is expected from local champions could self-allocate sufficient resources to ensure coordination to be sustained in a long run.

The co-designed innovative activities that address priority workforce development issues will be funded through an Opportunity Fund, the ceiling of which will not to exceed a certain level of amount. The process for determining activities to be funded and mechanisms to be used will be outlined in the Opportunity Fund Implementation Guideline. The guideline will detail the entire process from activity concept to funding to close-out.

Workforce Champion Mapping  is conducted through targeted meetings to explore networks, identify individuals who are or who may know of champions in Central Java, and build relationships that will support SINERGI activities and achieve the project objective. The WCM is being done in line with the Workforce Research that will focus primarily on legal and regulatory frameworks, common business practice, and social norms that prevent and encourage collaboration amongst workforce actors.

During the pilot phase of the project, SINERGI has identified the following champions who will participate SINERGI’s POKSI :

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