Projet LABOUR (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

According to the last WESO report, there are over 1.4bn workers in vulnerable jobs worldwide, with numbers expected to rise in 2020 due to COVID-19. Several attempts have been made at both domestic and international levels to address these concerns. This includes efforts through the Sustainable Development Goals process, which includes a specific statistical indicator to measure informal employment (8.3.1), the formulation of SDG8 (decent work) and SDG9 (sustainable industrialization). Across countries and world regions, the degree to which SDGs have been used to address youth issues and inform national policies varies significantly. Indeed, in spite of the fact that the great majority of states have formally committed to addressing the SDGs, including those related to insecure employment, there is little evidence to indicate that developing regions currently have the capacity to systematically study the problems if informal employment and vulnerability in ways that facilitate the development and implementation of concrete viable solutions. This is due, in our view, to two major challenges. First, although a number of approaches that have been used inside the EU, there has been little, if any, attempt to adapt the existing framework elsewhere. Second, no systematic review of anti-precariousness policy has been attempted beyond the EU region. LABOUR is a research and training programme designed to address the above-mentioned shortfalls of research and development approaches with particular attention to a region where this is particularly worrying concern. Informal employment in Asia is estimated to account for 68.2% of the active population. By gathering a team of 14 participants that includes academic and non-academic partners working on labour insecurity, we aim not only at producing specialists on the topic and on the region but also at proposing concrete mitigation measures that can be taken into account by decision-makers and development organisations.

Mots clés : precariousness, asia, southeast asia, informal labour, employment, informality, sdgs

Participants :
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 82800.0 €
- Chulalongkorn University (Thaïlande) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Charity-oriented myanmar (Birmanie) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Moldova State University (Rép. Moldave) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 248400.0 €
- Marmara University (Turquie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 110400.0 €
- Stockholm University (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 276000.0 €
- Dhivehi raajeyge qaumee university (Maldives) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193200.0 €
- Chithuen phendey association (Bhoutan) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Khmer youth and social development organization (Cambodge) — Partner, organization partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Participatory development knowledge agency (Laos) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Center for sustainable development studies (Viêt Nam) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Tallinn University (Estonie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 220800.0 €
- Dublin City University (Irlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 220800.0 €
- University of Latvia (Lettonie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193200.0 €
- Pambansang kilusan ng mga samahangmagsasaka (pakisama) inc (Philippines) — Partner, organization partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €