Active labour market policies are one of the most important means of fight against unmeployment in today´s world. More and more countries are discovering it´s importance and give it bigger role in fight against unemployment and empowering unemployed, and they have the biggest role in continental and scandinavian countries. But, amongst them we can´t include Croatia, which isn´t just lacking behind developed western nations, but is also behind countries in transition and closer to liberal welfare states in investment in active labour market policies. Problems aren´t just in financing those programs, but also in their implementation. Many evaluations have shown that Croatia has big problems with determining key groups, like implementing measures around employment of young people, even though they are among the most likely groups of people to find employment, or implementing measures in which unemployed people with more dificult chances of getting employed participate in unsuitable programs, like putting person with disability in educational program, even though they are often educated enough for the jobs that are being offered on the labour market. There is also a problem in putting too much focus on public works, even though evaluactions have shown that they don´t have effect on chances of finding employment