The OIC Public Employment Services Network (OIC-PESNET) is an OIC cooperation platform, which brings together representatives of Public Employment Institutions in the OIC Member States with a view to enhancing the technical cooperation among them through facilitating sharing and exchanging of experiences and best practices in this important domain and, thus, contributing to their efforts towards enhancing employability and reducing unemployment in their countries.

The OIC-PESNET was established in accordance with the “Resolution on the Cooperation on Labour, Employment and Social Protection among the OIC Member States” adopted by the 2nd Islamic Conference of Labour Ministers held in Baku, Azerbaijan in April 2013. The Conference called upon the establishment of a forum among public employment authorities of OIC Member States to promote collaboration on the transfer of knowledge and experience, as well as to generate joint action towards enhanced employment services and overcoming common challenges in the field of employment.

SESRIC assumes the role of the Secretariat of the OIC-PESNET and carries out a specific capacity building programme, namely; Public Employment Services Capacity Building Programme (PES-CaB), to support the efforts of the OIC Member States in developing the capacities of the institutional and human resources in the field of public employment services.

Aim

The OIC-PESNET aims at establishing an intra-OIC network for systematic sharing of information and experience among public employment authorities of the OIC Member States with a view to enhancing the quality and effectiveness of the public employment services and improving the accessibility to these services in the OIC Member States.

Functions

1. Initiating and implementing various collaboration and cooperation modalities among the public employment authorities in the OIC Member States with a view to strengthening and modernizing their public employment services through facilitating the share and exchange of knowledge, experience and best practices among the members of the Network.
2. Enhancing the human and institutional capacities of the public employment services institutions in the OIC Member States through facilitating the exchange of experts and organizing study visits and training workshops.

Network Documents:

• OIC-PESNET Rules of Procedure (RoP): (English) (Arabic) (French)
• OIC-PESNET Work Plan 2024-2026: (English) (Arabic) (French)