Old industrial areas
Good practice case study
Plans Locaux d’Insertion et d’Emploi, France
PLIEs (or Local Plans for Insertion and Employment) operate in localities across France, supporting the re-entry into employment of unemployed people who may also suffer health, professional, social or other disadvantages. They are nationally recognised and established but operate locally. The PLIEs are initiated by partnerships led by the municipality and supported by other levels of government such as the Département or the Région.
The PLIEs’ innovation consists of the co-ordination and joint-working between all the institutional, social and economic partners; a territorial approach to tackling long-term unemployment; the integration of this approach into wider local economic development. The project in Lille demonstrated that national and legislative recognition can allow a local partnership to move from experimentation to the delivery of mainstream programmes. Generating political will and local financial and managerial capacity are vital to the sustainability of a local partnership. Finally, the project has shown that common partnership structures across a country can be beneficial, providing that the scope for local initiative is not lost.
Case study
Practice and policy lessons from local employment development action (including the role of partnership) [pdf, en, 20kb]
