Abu Dhabi Tawteen Council
The United Arab Emirates president by the end of 2005 initiated the ADTC (Abu Dhabi Tawteen Council) to meet his dream in service delivery. The president’s main intention was to exploit the entire potential of the Emirati human capital for economic and social growth of Abu-Dhabi.
The ADTC endeavors to satisfy every job hunter yearning for a course in a profession within Abu-Dhabi Emirate through facilitating a complete sustainability employment program.
The Council’s direct link with 2030 Economic Vision of Abu-Dhabi contributes to areas that emphasize on the economic plan, core objectives, and strategic precedence (ADTC, 2013).
Hence, Abu-Dhabi Tawteen Council focuses particularly on enhancing the key economic Emiratisation private sector to coerce the development of 2030 Abu-Dhabi Economic Vision.
The ADTC strategic and institutional partnerships with the private and government units facilitate the achievements of the objectives. Indeed, jobs are established in line with the Abu Dhabi government economic and strategic policy, which cater for all levels.
The ADTC emphasizes on working with both the employers and job hunters to make sure that each Emirati benefits from the created job opportunities.
Moreover, to execute and devise the significant teaching plan that makes career post possible, Abu-Dhabi Tawteen Council collaborates with the chief schooling and enlightening organizations.
The Abu-Dhabi Tawteen Council is a private sector leader in the labor souk and Emiratisation. Thus, it augments the sustainability of economic and social improvement of Emirate (ADTC, 2013).
ADTC Vision and Mission
The vision of Abu-Dhabi Tawteen Council is to ensure that Emiratis develop into the Abu-Dhabi leading employment choices. The mission is to utilize the potential services of Emirati human capital for economic and social growth of Abu-Dhabi.
The mission can be achieved via policy development and labor market intelligence provided by Abu-Dhabi as well as the Emiratis service skills and employment (ADTC, 2013).
ADTC Mandates
The Abu-Dhabi Tawteen Council stipulates the operational and strategic terms of office in its structures. In fact, in its operational mandates, ADTC executes any task allocated to it by the Executive Council and perform other obligations while observing the laws to enable it to attain the set goals.
Besides, the Council extends and props up fresh and active programs in addition to setting up plans for inventiveness. The Council also sets up the meaning for joblessness and the unemployed Abu-Dhabi nationals.
Besides, it ascertains a database incorporating the vacancies available, the statistics of redundancy, labor force, and population.
The Council supports, develops, and establishes programs on Emiratisation in the private and public sectors. Furthermore, it offers recommendations and proposals to the Executive Council on the issuance of the lawful legislations (ADTC, 2013).
ADTC Values
Abu-Dhabi Tawteen Council bases their values on innovation, transparency, accountability, and service focus.
The value of innovation will provide solutions and approaches to the Emiratisation process while transparency helps the stakeholders in sharing related information on the initiatives assumed by the Council.
Accountability and service focus will, however, enable the employees’ to base their achievement targets on the Councils’ performance and provide quality services by the best practices and global standards (ADTC, 2013).
ADTC Economic activities
The Abu-Dhabi Tawteen Council targets real estate, tourism, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunication, high technology, and media, as well as the storage and transportation sectors.
It also intends to deal in the petrochemicals, gas, oil, and energy, retail and wholesale trade, education, government transactions, as well as the installation and repair of equipment and machinery (ADTC, 2013).
The ADTC partners
The major partners of Abu-Dhabi Tawteen Council include family development foundation, the Abu-Dhabi chambers of industry and commerce, together with the Western and Eastern region development councils. The other partners are the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Abu-Dhabi Statistics center, the Education Council of Abu-Dhabi, and the Economic development department (ADTC, 2013).
Statistics
An overview of the Labor Force
In Abu-Dhabi, both the community and officials attach value to the labor force.
Since the social and economic developments can hardly be realized devoid of a competent workforce, Abu-Dhabi considers human resources as key inputs in the realization of the perspective and current economic growth and development.
The workforces incorporate those without jobs and working individuals aged above fifteen years. Abu Dhabi’s domestic labor souk reported sweeping variations over the last four decades.
The qualitative and quantitative variations accrued due to the mounting demand for overseas workforces by the Emirate in the financial boom periods. Thus, the workforce has increased by ten-fold in the Abu-Dhabi Emirate over the last forty years (SCAD, 2013).
Indeed, this can be attributed to the large migration wave and the demographic transitional processes. Therefore, the total numbers of employed females and male nationals and non-nationals in the fiscal 2001 and 2008 were 649,342 and 889,417 respectively.
The workforce structure
The workforce structure appears to be determined by the social and demographic indicators. In fiscal 2008, the crude birth rate totaled to 18.1 while the crude death rate was reported to be 1.9.
The infant mortality rate in every one thousand live births was 8.7, and the general fertility rate was 83.7. The figures integrate both nationals and non-nationals totals.
Besides, the labor force comprised of 120,389 males and 3,885 females nationals and non-nationals in 1975, but the figures increased to 145,949 females and 773,350 males in 2008 (SCAD, 2013).
The occupation structure is depicted by the rate of employment and unemployment. The number of nationals in the Emirates of Abu Dhabi increased to 86,272 in fiscal 2008 from 60,753 reported figure of 2001. From these figures, 9,735 females and 51,018 male nationals were employed in 2001.
The employment numbers increased to 18,198 females and 68,074 male nationals in 2008. However, the non-nationals employed in Abu-Dhabi rose from 588,589 in fiscal 2001 to 803,146 in the financial year 2008.
In 2001, 63,764 females and 524,825 male non-nationals were employed in the Emirates of Abu-Dhabi. The workforce employment structure changed significantly in the financial year 2008 (SCAD, 2013).
During this year, the number of employed females and male non-nationals increased to 119,587 and 683,558 respectively from the initially stated 2001 figures.
The unemployment rates are another growth and development parameter in Abu-Dhabi Emirate from 1975 to fiscal 2008. From the figures, the unemployed male and female nationals were 445 and 6 giving a total of 451 in 1975.
Nevertheless, the figures rose to 2,251 females and 7,796 male nationals in 2008, which added up to 10,047 unemployed Abu-Dhabi Emirate nationals. In 1975, the unemployed female and male non-nationals were reported to be 250 and 2,160, which totaled to 2,410.
The rate of unemployment escalated in fiscal 2008 where there were 5,913 females and 13,922 males’ unemployed non-nationals. Hence, the total unemployed nationals and non-nationals in 1975 was 2,861 or 2.30%, but the figure rose to 29,882 (3.57%) in fiscal 2008 (SCAD, 2013).
In Abu-Dhabi Emirate, activity rates are indicated in the number of workforces both employed and unemployed. In fiscal 2008, the total workforce basic activity rate was 58.40%.
Conversely, employment due to economic activities improved due to the increased rate of participation from 40.10% in 2001 to 41.30% in 2008.
Finally, employment in the sectors is based on the education structure (SCAD, 2013). That is, 25.80% of the degree holders, 12.50% of those having preparatory certificates, and 31.10% possessing secondary school education are absorbed in various sectors.
References
ADTC (2013). Abu Dhabi Tawteen Council. Web.
SCAD (2013). Statistics center. Web.