Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée

What Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée does

Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée (TZCLD) is a French non-profit association founded in 2016–2017 that operationalizes a national methodology to guarantee the right to employment for long-term unemployed persons. The association supports a network of habilitated territories that establish local governance bodies (Comités locaux pour l'emploi, CLE) and purpose-driven enterprises (Entreprises à but d'emploi, EBE) that hire long-term unemployed persons on permanent contracts (CDI), adapting jobs to the skills and circumstances of employees rather than requiring fit to predefined roles. Its primary beneficiaries are persons privately deprived of durable employment (PPDE) — individuals unemployed for 12+ months facing multiple barriers — alongside local elected officials, municipalities, and the broader local economic ecosystem. The model has scaled from 10 experimental territories in 2017 to 44 habilitated territories by 2025, with over 1,000 jobs created across habilitated territories and approximately 24% of EBE employees in recognized situations of disability.

The core product is a four-phase territorial methodology (consensus building, outreach to PPDE, identification of useful work, opening of EBEs) complemented by a professional training catalogue (Formation Équipes projet, Formation Équipes de direction d'EBE) and a state-recognized certification (RS7052, registered February 2025). TZCLD does not develop proprietary technology products; its operational technology consists of the methodology itself plus digital tools including an online community animation platform co-developed with Institut Randstad and four self-paced e-learning modules. The EBE model inverts conventional hiring: rather than employees adapting to jobs, jobs are designed around persons' skills, wishes, and life situations, and EBEs operate across multiple sectors (circular economy, ecological transition, care, proximity services) generating commercial revenue while fulfilling a social mission.

TZCLD operates a multi-source revenue model. The association itself is funded through membership fees, individual donations, partner contributions, and public subsidies. The EBE employment model is financed via redirection of public unemployment-benefit expenditure (RSA, assurance chômage) into EBE salaries through the Contribution au développement de l'emploi (CDE), administered by the dedicated Fonds d'expérimentation territoriale contre le chômage de longue durée (ETCLD). The training arm generates fee-for-service revenue (€2,250–€4,900 per participant). Five founding associations (ATD Quart Monde, Emmaüs France, Secours Catholique–Caritas France, Pacte civique, Fédération des acteurs de la solidarité) anchor the governance, and the project has secured cross-party parliamentary support, with 137 deputies from 9 political groups signing the third-law proposal in 2025.

Name

Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée

Legal name

Association TZCLD

Website

https://tzcld.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée (TZCLD) is a French non-profit association that deploys a four-phase territorial methodology to create purpose-driven enterprises (EBEs) hiring long-term unemployed persons on permanent contracts, supported by training, certification, and a national network of 44 habilitated territories.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Rezé

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Public funding and government grants: The experimental EBE model is financed through a combination of public sources: the État (French state), Conseils départementaux (departmental councils), municipalities, the European Social Fund (FSE), and the Fonds d'expérimentation territoriale contre le chômage de longue durée (ETCLD). The so-called Contribution au développement de l'emploi (CDE) redistributes funds previously spent on unemployment benefits into EBE salaries. The association TZCLD itself is financed through membership fees, donations, public subsidies, and partner contributions.
2. Donations and membership fees: The association raises funds through individual donations, adherent memberships, and institutional donor partnerships. Donors can contribute via the website. The association also receives support from corporate foundations.
3. Training services: The association's training arm generates revenue through fee-for-service training programmes. 'Équipes projet' certification costs 2,500€ TTC per person; without certification 2,250€ TTC. 'Équipes de direction d'EBE' costs 4,900€ TTC per person.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

TZCLD provides a 4-phase social innovation methodology that enables French territories to guarantee the right to employment for all long-term unemployed persons. The organization deploys Entreprises à but d'emploi (EBE) that hire long-term unemployed individuals in permanent contracts (CDI), adapting jobs to people rather than people to jobs. The association also delivers training programs for territory project teams and EBE directors, plus a recognized professional certification (RS7052).

Product overview

Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée is a non-profit association offering a social innovation methodology and support ecosystem for implementing the right to employment at the territorial level. The offering consists of the core TZCLD methodology (four-phase approach for territory habilitation), two training programs (Formation Équipes projet and Formation Équipes de direction d'EBE), and a certified professional qualification (RS7052). These products work together to guide territories from emergence through habilitation and EBE operation, with the training programs building internal capacity and the certification validating professional competencies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TZCLD Methodology (4-Phase Territorial Approach)
• Formation Équipes projet TZCLD (Project Team Training)
• Formation Équipes de direction d'EBE (EBE Director Training)
• Certification RS7052 (Professional Certification)

Quantifiable outcome

• ~400 CDI contracts created in 10 territories by end of 2017 (average employee age 45, average prior unemployment 46 months)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered major, core, founding / core, supporting, foundational and policy-level.

• Groupe VYVmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2023A national partnership between Groupe VYV (a major mutual health and insurance group) and TZCLD was announced in December 2023. This partnership supports TZCLD's development and extends the network of institutional partners backing the project.
• CooracecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 January 2018Coorace and TZCLD signed an indefinite partnership agreement on 9 January 2018. The partnership covers: promoting the TZCLD project, mobilising Coorace regional delegations and field members on territories engaged in experimentation, and sharing resources. It may be replicated at territorial level through partnerships with Coorace regional delegations. Coorace Normandie co-animates a regional grappe with Ardes, providing quarterly thematic meetings aligned with the TZCLD methodology.
• ATD Quart Mondefounding / coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerATD Quart Monde is a founding member of the TZCLD association. Founded by Joseph Wresinski in 1957, ATD Quart Monde fights against extreme poverty and social exclusion. ATD Quart Monde brings the perspective of persons living in poverty to the heart of the TZCLD project, asserting that the right to employment is essential to human dignity.
• Emmaüs Francefounding / coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEmmaüs France is a founding member of the TZCLD association. With over 70 years of history fighting exclusion and precarity through unconditional welcome, solidarity, and work, Emmaüs shares the same values and ambitions as TZCLD. Emmaüs sees TZCLD as complementary to its own efforts to reduce exclusion.
• Secours Catholique – Caritas Francefounding / coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSecours Catholique is a founding member of TZCLD. It finds in TZCLD the dynamics necessary to fight exclusions and poverty: projects that promote the development of people's ability to act, with experimental approaches supported by citizen mobilisation for the common good.
• Pacte civiquefounding / coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPacte civique is a founding member of TZCLD. It finds in TZCLD the four values it promotes: creativity (identifying unsolvable needs), sobriety (short circuit with job seekers), justice (no lasting job seekers), and fraternity (union of a territory around a common goal).
• Fédération des acteurs de la solidaritéfounding / coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFédération des acteurs de la solidarité (FAS) is a founding member of TZCLD. The FAS fights to guarantee access to fundamental rights for all, using social innovation, and believes civil society creativity must be supported by the state. It strongly supports TZCLD's right to employment as a driver of human dignity.
• AgefiphcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgefiph partners with TZCLD since 2019 (renewed 2022–2026) to support the inclusion of persons with disabilities in EBE workforces. Agefiph provides expertise on inclusive management, and TZCLD provides a pathway to employment for a population disproportionately affected by long-term unemployment (59% of disabled job seekers have been unemployed over one year vs 48% of all job seekers). Over 24% of EBE employees have a recognized disability.
• APF France handicapcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAPF France handicap is a partner of TZCLD. Persons with disabilities or chronic illnesses are particularly affected by long-term unemployment. APF contributes to identifying, mobilising, and accompanying disabled job seekers within TZCLD territories and helps detect and develop new activities serving persons with disabilities.
• Institut Randstad / Groupe Randstad FrancesupportingTechnology or IntegrationInstitut Randstad supports TZCLD through the digitalisation of accompaniment tools and development of an online community animation tool (outil d'animation communautaire en ligne). Institut Randstad believes digital tools are essential for scaling the project to large scope.
• Solidarités nouvelles face au chômage (SNC)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerSNC shares with TZCLD the conviction that no one is unemployable and that everyone can take a place through work in society. SNC encourages its groups of solidarity to participate in TZCLD projects to exploit complementarities between the two organisations' means of action.
• Fonds d'expérimentation territoriale contre le chômage de longue durée (ETCLD)foundationalStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe ETCLD (Fonds d'expérimentation) is the body that manages and funds the TZCLD experimentation. Created under the initial TZCLD law, it provides financing, oversees habilitation of territories, monitors EBE development, and publishes annual impact reports (bilans). It acts as the state's partner in managing the public policy experiment.
• Accenture FrancesupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerAccenture France hosted the 30 November 2017 national TZCLD meeting in its Paris offices, bringing together 160+ participants. Accenture is engaged on the Villeurbanne (Rhône) territory and committed to advocate with decision-makers to pursue the project.
• Christophe Itier (Haut-commissaire à l'ESS et à l'innovation sociale)policy-levelOthersChristophe Itier, then Haut-commissaire à l'économie sociale et solidaire et à l'innovation sociale, publicly affirmed in November 2017 that TZCLD has its full place in the government's ESS roadmap, and invited TZCLD to be part of a new accelerator laboratory for social innovation.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• ATD Quart Monde: Founding member of TZCLD founded by Joseph Wresinski in 1957, focused on extreme poverty and social exclusion. ATD brings the perspective of persons in poverty to TZCLD's governance and is a core coalition partner; its mission is broader (poverty eradication, access to fundamental rights) than TZCLD's specialized employment focus.
• Emmaüs France: Founding member of TZCLD and a much larger social-insertion movement with 70+ years of history fighting exclusion through work, solidarity, and unconditional welcome. Emmaüs operates a broader portfolio (second-hand economy, community housing, refugee support) of which TZCLD is one specialized tool for long-term unemployment.
• France Travail (formerly Pôle Emploi): French national public employment service operating the unemployment insurance regime and employment support for all job seekers. France Travail is the institutional incumbent in the employment space, and the ETCLD fund and CDE mechanism partially redirect contributions that would otherwise flow through France Travail. Represents the broader public-policy system within which TZCLD operates as a complementary experimental device.

Others

• Groupe VYV: Major French mutual health and insurance group that signed a national partnership with TZCLD in December 2023. While not a direct peer in employment insertion, Groupe VYV is a strategic ecosystem partner — its network of mutuals and social protection services complements TZCLD's mission by extending social coverage to EBE employees.
• Solidarités nouvelles face au chômage (SNC): French association offering one-to-one accompaniment of long-term job seekers by volunteer groups, sharing TZCLD's conviction that 'no one is unemployable.' SNC is a partner of TZCLD and encourages its groups of solidarity to participate in TZCLD projects, making it an adjacent accompaniment-focused player with overlapping target population.

Direct peers

• Fédération des Entreprises d'Insertion: Trade federation representing Entreprises d'Insertion (EI) in France, which hire people facing employment barriers under specific insertion contracts. While EIs are a longer-established legal category than EBEs, the target population, social mission, and funding mechanisms are highly comparable, and both networks represent scaled responses to long-term unemployment.
• Coorace: French national federation of Structures d'Insertion par l'Activité Économique (SIAE). Coorace and TZCLD signed an indefinite partnership agreement in January 2018 and Coorace Normandie co-animates a TZCLD regional grappe. Both organizations operate in the employment-inclusion space for disadvantaged populations, though Coorace's portfolio spans broader SIAE types (EI, ETTI, ACI, EAI).
• ADIE (Association pour le Droit à l'Initiative Économique): French non-profit providing microcredit and support to entrepreneurs excluded from traditional banking, many of whom are long-term unemployed. ADIE's target population and mission (enabling economic activity for those furthest from the labor market) substantially overlap with TZCLD's PPDE focus, though ADIE emphasizes self-employment rather than CDI hiring within purpose-driven enterprises.
• Les Régies de Quartier: Federation of community-based enterprises employing local residents, including long-term unemployed persons, to provide neighborhood services. Régies share TZCLD's model of creating purpose-driven local enterprises that hire excluded populations, with similar multi-stakeholder governance and territorial embedding.

Emerging players

• Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO): US-based non-profit providing immediate employment and comprehensive support to people returning home from incarceration, a population that overlaps with TZCLD's PPDE in terms of labor-market barriers. Both organizations run transitional/employment-first models for populations facing multiple barriers, but CEO operates in a US policy context (criminal justice, transitional jobs) rather than the French unemployment-benefit framework.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries11 records

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