Sector Committees
 

The Royal Directives of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said to hold the first national manpower employment seminar, followed His Majesty’s directives to the private sector to take the initiative in promoting human resources and increasing the number of citizens in its small and big companies and establishments.

To utilize the Royal Directives and enable the society to reap its fruits, the Ministry of Manpower has found a drafted a mechanism to activate the private sector’s role in providing the Omani Youth with training and employment opportunities, through a real partnership. Hence, the initiative to establish Omanisation joint committees emerged. This has contributed to preparing and formulating policies and procedures which aim at providing the Omani new entrants to the labor market with more opportunities.

Objectives:

The Omanisation joint sector committees are among the most important boosters of joint cooperation between the public and private sectors in national manpower training and employment fields.

Objective of these committees include:

1- Coordinating with concerned authorities to identify required steps and procedures to implement the Omanisation sector plan, according to the final statements of the national manpower employment seminars.
2- Cooperating with the Ministry of Manpower to implement the sector Omanisation plan and other supportive procedures which were endorsed by the 3rd national manpower employment seminar.
3- Coordinating with companies in drafting their plans to achieve Omanisation percentages endorsed by the sector plan.
4- Cooperating with the Ministry and companies to select candidates for qualifying training, in accordance with the Omanisation plan and identifying training curricula which meet the companies ` needs for various levels of vocational skills.
5- Following up implementation of the Omanisation sector plan and assessing its outcome.
6- Presenting proposals and working programmes to support individual initiatives, in an attempt to enable the Omani youth to set up their free businesses within the context of Sand program.
7- Looking into any other issues of concern to the sector and taking what deems necessary to achieve the sector’s role in employing Omanis.

Number and Structure of Sector Committees:

 There are 12 Omanisation sector committees, each of which is chaired by un undersecretary of a concerned ministry. These committees comprise representatives of the prestigious companies and establishments operating in the concerned sector. Participation of the private sector in these committees is 90%, while the public sector contributes by the remaining 10% in the membership of these sector committees.

The sector committees also include representatives from representative committees of employees who work in the following activities:

The Accomplishments:

● The sector committees played a vital role in enhancing cooperation and links between the public and private sectors.
• Prepared and formulated policies and procedures aimed at availing training opportunities to employ Omanis through the Sector Omanisation percentages.
• Encouraged individual initiatives and self – employments projects.
• Helped increase the numbers of Omanis working in various sectors and enhanced Omanisation in permanent projects implemented by private establishments.
• Played a remarkable role in preparing working papers of the 2nd and 3rd national manpower employment seminars and the Omanisation sector plan.

Coordination Mechanism:

The Ministry works towards supporting the tasks of the Omanisation joint sector committees by availing required data and statistics and coordinating with concerned authorities.

Sector Committees Department: It undertakes the following tasks:

• Coordination with the Ministry’s concerned authorities to ensure that Omanisation joint sector committees easily obtain the information and statistics which help them perform their duties.
• Coordination with the Ministry’s representatives in sector committees and committee repporteurs to ensure the actual contribution of these committees in achieving the Omanisation sector plan, in accordance with the approved timeframe.
• Coordinating work between ministries and sector committees.
• Preparing comprehensive periodical and yearly reports on the work of sector committees, the achievements and any obstacles faced and referring them to officials at the ministry.