The employment potential and level of government support of internally displaced persons
(according to the results of the social research«Needs assessment among internally displaced women and aged
people in Ukraine»)
International Academic and Research Conference«Internally displaced persons in Ukraine: fundamentals and
opportunities»February 27, 2015
Task groups and research regions (1)
IDP moved from places of permanent residence and reside in other territories (1000 respondents):
1. Women aged 18 and older that are: Pregnant (101 persons) Household heads and/or main economic supporters in the household
(604 persons)
2. Aged persons of 60 years and older: Women (133 persons) and Men (162 persons) Reside in residential care establishments :
Women (59 persons) and Men (41 persons)Survey regions (17 regions): Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zakarpattya, Zaporizhzhya, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Cherkasy, Chernihiv regions and the city of Kyiv.
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Task groups and research regions (2)
RM – migrants that returned to their places of permanent residence in the post-conflict territories (403 persons):
1. Women aged 18 and older that are: Pregnant (53 persons) Household heads and/or main economic supporters in the
household (248 persons)
2. Aged persons of 60 years and older: Women (50 persons) Men (52 persons)
Survey regions: Donetsk and Luhansk regions
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Main criteria of task group selection
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A woman – household head
• Age – 18 years and older• Family budget owner and takes
decisions concerning life support of the family
A pregnant woman• Age – 18 years and older• Pregnancy at the moment of the
survey
An aged person
• Age – 60 years and older• Gender: male and female• Reside in the residential care
establishment
Respondent RecruitingInternally Displaced Persons (IDP)
Temporary entry centres Places of providing humanitarian assistance (food, cloths, personal hygiene facilities, medicine etc.) Non-governmental, volunteer organizations, charity funds Governmental establishments providing assistance Church communities Medical Service Establishments (pregnant women) Employment centres (in Donetsk region exclusively) Acquaintances, friends, colleagues etc. Task group representatives
Returned Migrants (RM)
Places of providing humanitarian assistance (food, cloths, personal hygiene facilities, medicine etc.) Non-governmental, volunteer organizations, charity funds Governmental establishments providing assistance Church communities Acquainted, friends, colleagues etc. Task group representatives
Aged persons who reside in the residential care establishments
Residential Care Establishments: Mohylov Geriatric Home (Dnipropetrovsk region); Mariupol War and Labour Veterans Home No.1 and No. 2; Kharkiv Labour Veterans Geriatric Home.
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Key Characteristics of IDP (1)
More than a half – are marriedChildren:
• One third has 1 child
• 16% have two children
• 2% have three and more children 2/3 have education higher than secondary one 40% moved with their families; 60% - no (left husbands,
relatives) 60% had income for 1 family member lower than living
minimumMain income source: 40% - salary and self-employment;
30% – pension; 10% - state subsistence allowance; 5% - savings; 15% - various kinds of allowances
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Key Characteristics of IDP(2)
Financially incapable:• to buy necessary food products (70%)• to regularly pay public utility charges (57%)
Type of accommodation where they reside now:•37% - an apartment/house•19% - a room in an apartment/house•11% - a room in a dormitory•7% - a room in a health resort/recreation centre•2% - temporary entry centre
Accommodation where they reside:• Rent and pay themselves (31%)• Relatives’/acquaintances’ property (reside free of charge) (21%)• Relatives’/ acquaintances’ property (pay rent) (17,5%)• Provided by government free of charge (15%)• Provided by government (on a fee paid basis) (5%)
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Experience of asking for receiving a IDP registration certificate into the structural department of the local state administration regarding social
protection issues of population according to the place of permanent residence
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Asked and have received a certificate, 86,3%
Asked, but have not re-ceived a certificate, 3,4%
Have not asked, 10,3%
Main reasons of not asking
- Do not see any point in its receiving – 3,9%- Do not know where to address – 1,8%- Difficulties with collection of all necessary documents – 1,4%- Too complicated procedure of certificate drawing up – 1,3%- Do not know that they have the right to receive a certificate – 1,1%
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«Cascade» of welfare payment and governmental allowance receivers among IDPs, %
Kinds of payments(that more than 3% of respondents
have indicated)
Had the right to receive
before moving
Carried out payment transfers according to the current place of
residence
Receive allowance
according to the current place of
residence
Retirement Pension 33,6 30,8 28,8
Nursing Aid 12,0 9,1 7,3
Pregnancy and Maternity Allowance 8,8 6,4 4,7
Low-Income Family Social Care 7,0 5,3 4,4
Child Allowances for Single Mothers 6,6 6,0 5,2
Disability Pension 5,7 5,5 4,9
Unemployment benefits, including on a one-off basis 5,6 4,1 3,6
Children’s Allowance under 16 years (that study till 18 years) 4,8 3,5 3,1
One-off Child Birth Benefit4,6 2,3 1,8
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Proportion of IDPs who receive targeted aid for persons who move from the temporary occupied territory of Ukraine and regions of the ATO, for living expenses covering, including paying public utility
charges, %
Among those who received a certificate on IDP registration, N=863 F-HH F-P M
(60+)F
(60+)Among
all
Receive in full 56,5 58,6 65,3 56,6 57,9
Receive not in full, with delays 16,9 17,2 5,1 10,5 14,3
Do not receive, but all documents for drawing up have been filed
19,0 19,5 16,1 26,6 19,9
Do not receive and have not filed documents
7,6 4,6 13,6 6,3 7,9
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Asking for help in governmental establishments to solve issues related to moving and receiving allowance after moving, %
Proportion of those who have asked for allowance
Proportion of those
who received it
F-HH F-P M (60+) F(60+) Among all Among all
Department of Social Protection of the Population
68.9 67.3 73.7 68.5 69.3 57.8
Healthcare Department 21.0 41.6 10.5 25.3 22.4 19.7
Education Department 25.0 11.9 5.3 9.9 18.6 16.0
Social Service Centre for Family, Children and Youth
18.7 22.8 8.3 11.1 16.5 13.5
Office of Children’s Services 14.6 15.8 3.8 4.3 11.6 9.1
Family, Children and Youth Department
7.1 5.9 0.8 3.1 5.5 3.7
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Need and receiving of allowance after migration from governmental agencies, % among all
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Drawing up of welfare payments, pensions, allowances
Registration according to the temporary place of residence
Accommodation search (including rental)
Receiving food products
Receiving financial aid
Receiving medical services
Receiving non-grocery goods
Rehabilitation (job serach)
Assistance related to household issues
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
68.4
67
61.9
56.5
52.5
45.7
45
40.8
33.6
61.4
61
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27.2
27.8
37.4
19.9
13.3
14.7
Needed Received
Employment characteristics of women-household heads, % (1)
Were employed BEFORE removal
Are employed
NOW
Are in search of
jobWere employed/are employed/are in search of 66.0 31.1 34.6Heads, managers 7.6 2.2 1.0Experts 25.3 8.7 9.4Technicians and professionals (associated professionals) 5.9 1.5 1.4
«Clerk» assistance workers 2.5 1.0 0.5Workers in the field of services and trade 18.2 13.1 7.2Qualified agricultural and forest workers 0.2 0.0 0.0Craftsmen and associated qualified workers 2.2 1.5 0.7Operators and installation and machine riggers 0.7 0.2 0.3Elementary (the most simple) professions 3.4 2.7 0.9Volunteer 0.0 0.2 0.0Any job 0.0 0.0 13.1Were not employed/are not employed/are not searching 34.0 68.9 65.4
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Employment characteristics of women-household heads, % (2)
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The current position is more pres-tigious and well-paid, 7%
The current and previous positions are identical ac-
cording to the pay level and
prestige, 46%
The current posi-tion is less presti-
gious and low-paid, 47%
Current employment of IDPs, %
F-HH F-PM
(60+)F
(60+)Among
all
Work full-time (8 hours)26.5 2.0 3.0 4.3 17.3
Work part-time (4 hours)6.3 6.9 0.0 2.5 4.9
Do not work, but I am actively searching a job 35.3 4.0 13.5 9.3 25.0
Do not work and do not search for a job 18.2 8.9 83.5 84.0 36.6Have a pregnant leave (till birth of a child) 1.7 75.2 - - 8.6
Have a maternity leave 12.1 3.0 - - 7.6
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Employment conditions of IDPs, % (N=222, among those who work)
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Written agreement
Oral agreement
Without agreement (self-employment)
63.6
20.7
15.7
33.3
11.1
55.6
50.0
25.0
25.0
45.5
27.3
27.3
F (60+)
M (60+)
F-P
F-HH
Among all – 20,7%
Among all – 61,3%
Among all – 18,0%
Attitude of F-HH related to employment in the current place of residence
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«Difficult» to find a job that:
• would suit by its salary (81%)
• would correspond to experience, knowledge and qualification (80.5%)
Reasons for unemployment of F-HH, % (Among those who do not work, N=323)
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There is no appropriate job – 52.9%•Documents on education have been lost
•Only unskilled professions are offered
•Have no work experience
•Cannot get confirmation of dismissal from the previous employment
•Featured jobs are far away from the place of residence
•Have no work record
•Employers do not want to employ me because of the territory of origin
•Only informal employment is offered
•Low salary is offered
•There have been many attempts, despaired in search of work
•I cannot find a job according to my profession
•Not enough workplaces for employment
“Are waiting” – 13%• Waiting for answers to my previous queries
• Waiting for the start of operations, business or agricultural season
Employment in household and pensioners – 21% Other – 13%
Registration of F-HH in an employment centre
Registered
Non-registered
42,1%
46,4%
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(among those who do not work, N=286)
Reasons why they have not registered with an Employment centre after displacement:
• Do not see any point in registration• Do not believe that anybody would help me (or would not want to help)• There were feedbacks that only positions of cleaners and yard-keepers had been offered• Because of lack of certain documents (including a certificate from the previous place of
employment)• Do not know how to get there• Do not know where to address
Vocational training, retraining for further employment/preservation of the workplace
Among all, not taking into account those who are on pension (N=737)
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26,9 % would like to have vocational training or retraining for further employment or preservation of the workplace:
• Learning of a foreign language• Computer related skills• Accounting (including 1С program)• Work with office equipment (fax, xerox)• Other (gaining skills of a cook, seamstress, hair dresser, seller)
21,2 % would like to gain skills, have additional training/retraining that would improve chances to find a job:
• Accounting (including 1С program)• Computer related skills• Learning of a foreign language
Plans to remove in the next 12 months, %
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0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0
52,8
2,4
1,6
0,3
1,3
0,4
10.9
30,3Don’t plan to depart from the settlement where I currently reside
Don’t know/no answer
Will move to other country of the world
Will move to an EU country
Will move to another CIS country
Will move to Russia
Will move to other region of Ukraine
Will return to the former place of residence after liberation of the territory
Readiness of F-HH to remove in rural area, %
25
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
29.1
21.7
29.5
12.6
7.1
Agree – 20%Absolutely agree
Rather agree
Difficult to say, whether agree or not
Rather disagree
Absolutely disagree
Recommendations (1)Promoting creation of new workplaces, including under
conditions of mini-shifts.Creating opportunities for retraining of internally displaced
persons on the basis of public employment centers, taking into account the specific of industrial region of their location and actual needs of the labor market.
Implementing quick preparation courses for entrepreneurship of IDPs on the basis of employment centers, primarily in the fields of: construction of individual houses, energy efficiency, modernization of infrastructure facilities etc.
Providing horizontal relationship of regional employment centers to give greater opportunity for employment of IDPs.
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Recommendations (2)
Analyzing willingness of IDPs to move into rural areas, offering strategies for their placement and employment. At the same time, provision of an integrated approach for infrastructure development.
Establishing the country-wide data base (register) related to existing allocation opportunities, employment and job retraining for forcedly displaced persons (mapping, database forming, online access to employment centers, etc. opportunity for individual search).
Determining social capital characteristics of IDPs for the most effective involvement of their potential for the benefit of communities of (temporary) residence and organization of mutual aid for IDPs.
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Thank you for your attention!!!!
Additional information:
Bondar Tetyana,
O. Yaremenko UISR,
Теl./fax: (044) 501 50 75; (044) 501 50 76
[email protected] http://www.uisr.org.ua
Osaulenko Olga,
UNFPA Representation office in Ukraine,
Теl./fax: +38 044 253 00 53
[email protected] http://www.unfpa.org
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