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Reducing Discrimination at workplace under the Joint UN Team on AIDS Plan in China There are currently approximately 750,000 reported cases of people living with HIV in China, with three quarters of these being of working age. Despite better knowledge about HIV and efforts by the Chinese authorities to combat it, discrimination against people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their families remains rampant in China today. Discrimination against PLHIV has led to workers losing their jobs or being excluded from work in different economic sectors, thus impacting their ability to earn a livelihood and provide for their families. The ILO strategy in China encompasses three prongs: integration of HIV rights violations issues into academic institutions curriculum; strengthening the ILO legal aid hotline; and development of a best practice synthesis. To enhance the training of law students who will graduate to become judges, lawyers and legal officials, HIV-related rights violation issues would be integrated into the curriculum of the Institute of Human Rights, China University of Political Science and Law. The focus will be on integrating international tools, including ILO labour standards which address HIV related rights violations in employment. The ILO is drafting the elements to be integrated into the curriculum.
From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labour (The Bridge Project)
Win-Win Gender Equality Means Good Business (in co-delegation with UN Women) Win-Win: gender equality means good business is a Project funded by the European Union (EU) and will be co-implemented by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UN Women. The overarching objective of the programme is to promote EU and international shared principles and values of gender equality and women`s economic empowerment. The overall objective will be achieved by recognizing women as beneficiaries and partners of growth and development, by increasing commitment of private sector (enterprises and employers’ organizations) to gender equality and women´s empowerment and by strengthening companies’ capacities to implement these commitments. The action will ultimately contribute to the achievement of gender equality through enabling women’s business leadership, labour force participation, entrepreneurship, economic empowerment and thus their full and equal participation in society.
Inclusive Insurance Market Development in Rwanda This two year partnership between the ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility (the Facility) and the Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) increases the access and usage of insurance by low income households and micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Rwanda as well as reduces their vulnerability and improves their productivity in the face of a diversity of shocks. To achieve this, the following activities are carried out: Support ASSAR to strengthen its capacity and the implementation of a business model for training and consumer education; Build the capacity of the insurance industry, financial service providers and distribution channels including the training of trainers to guarantee sustainability and integration to ASSAR.While the proposed activities address some of the key supply and demand constraints, this approach is designed to systematically create a sustainable insurance market in Rwanda and to complement other interventions by AFR.
Construcción Participativa de una Estrategia Sectorial para el Tránsito a la Economía Formal en El Salvador, Guatemala, y Honduras El proyecto contribuirá en el fortalecimiento institucional de las Cámaras de Comercio de El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras, para la prestación de servicios de formalización, promoviendo un reconocimiento de los derechos laborales de los trabajadores y trabajadoras en el Sector Informal a partir del desarrollo de una Estrategia Sectorial para Facilitar el Tránsito a la Economía Formal de las Unidades Económicas en el Sector Comercio de El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras.
Inclusive Labour Markets for Job Creation in Ukraine (2017-2022) The present development engagement document details the objectives and management arrangements for the development cooperation concerning Inclusive Labour Markets for Job Creation in Ukraine (2017-2022) as agreed between the parties specified below. The development engagement document is annexed to the Bilateral Agreement with the Implementing Partner and constitutes an integrated part hereof together with the documentation specified below. The Danish support is part of the support provided as part of the Sustainable and Inclusive Economic Development thematic programme within the framework of the Danish Neighbourhood Programme (DANEP) 2017 2021 under the Danish country programme for Ukraine. The project objective will be pursued through three outcomes that are mutually reinforcing, with gender mainstreaming being a cross-cutting strategy: Labour market governance is improved through the strengthening of employment services and other labour market institutions; skills development is better aligned with demand for skills with particular emphasis on the private sector; tripartite social dialogue and collective bargaining as means to create more and better jobs are enhanced.
Jobs in green and healthy transport: making the green shift In collaboration with UNECE, this project will estimate the employment impact of advancing sustainability in the transport sector. Following the methodology used in the 2018 World Employment and Social Outlook: Greening with Jobs, the project will estimate the effect on the number and regional and sectoral distribution of jobs related to scenarios that portray the promotion of public transport and the electrification of private vehicles. The project will deliver a report which will also develop policy avenues that should complement transport policies for any transition to be just.
Entreprises et travail décent: Promotion et application de la Déclaration de principes tripartite sur les entreprises multinationales et la politique sociale en Côte d’Ivoire et au Sénégal Le projet contribuera à augmenter la contribution des entreprises nationales et multinationales à une croissance économique soutenue, partagée et durable, visant le plein emploi productif et le travail décent pour tous en Côte d’Ivoire et au Sénégal. Afin de contribuer à l’atteinte de cet objectif principal, le projet vise à soutenir la réalisation de trois résultats principaux : Résultat 1 : La collaboration public-privé est renforcée en Côte d’Ivoire sur le thème de l’emploi des jeunes Résultat 2 : Un cadre favorable à la mobilisation des entreprises sur des thèmes constituant des priorités nationales du travail décent est mis en place au Sénégal. Résultat 3 : Les entreprises multinationales françaises sont mieux informées afin de jouer pleinement leur rôle d’agent socialement responsable dans leurs pays d’opération.
Better Work Global Programme Phase III – (2015 -2017) Geneva The global garment industry offers developing countries the opportunity to support inclusive develop-ment through job-rich growth and promotion of women’s empowerment and participation in the labour market. The industry offers formalized employment to over 60 million workers worldwide, the majority of whom are female. However the industry is renowned for poor job quality. The garment sector has poor safety and health standards and is characterized by low wages, long working hours, frequent reports of verbal abuse sexual harassment, and gender discrimination. Labour inspectorates typically lack the capacity to enforce the law and collective bargaining agreements in the sector are still a rarity. Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives have had some impact in improving working conditions but progress is uneven, interventions are often fragmented and are widely regarded as unsustainable. Better Work has years of experience working at all levels of the supply chain to find sustainable solutions in eight countries. Our impact results have proven that our programme can improve working conditions, improve the competitiveness of participating manufactures and present opportunities to build the capacity of government and social partners to play their role in labour market governance. Better Work Global (BWG) will continue to provide technical support to country programmes by devel-oping globally consistent tools required for implementation of services, providing leadership develop-ment, ensuring quality control, and coordinating global communications and relationships with donors, constituents and over 60 global buyers. BWG will also conduct global monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment and research programmes each of which feed into upstream policy debates within ILO, IFC and other international organisations. The programme has divided up its activities into four over-arching objectives for this next portion of phase III. The activities and outputs are intrinsically inter-linked, particularly as the nexus between its core service impact, related to issues of sustainability and policy change becomes clearer. BWG plans to achieve these aims by focusing on four major areas during this period, which include: • Better Work will achieve scale, quality and effectiveness in its service delivery. • Better Work and its alliance will catalyse changes in relevant strategies, policies and practices at sectoral, national and international levels. • Better Work will strengthen its engagement with buyers to improve their supply chain practices and support the BW programme. • Better Work Global with support from its governance structure will enable progress towards sustainable and viable country programmes. The following Project Document explains the challenges in the garment industry, and how Better Work Global contributes to solving these problems, in more detail.
JTI/ALP Impact Assessment Framework - First phase - 2015/16 The development of an impact assessment framework supplements the strategy agreed in 2014 by JTI and the ILO for activities in the period 2015-2018. Under that existing strategy, the ILO will support JTI’s efforts in the context of its Agricultural Labour Practices (ALP) programme, to eliminate child labour in its supply chain, through research and the provision of tailored training on child labour. Under this project, the ILO will extend its support to the ALP to cover all Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW), in addition to child labour The impact assessment framework will be developed based on an assessment of the data collected by JTI’s Leaf Technicians under KYG observation scheme, and then using baselines, needs assessment and design guidelines for improvement programmes to lead to improvement in ALPs and the impact on the tobacco growing communities. Based on initial piloting in two countries, theories of changes and designed/revised improvement programmes will be prepared, methodologies and tools for needs assessment and impact assessment developed or customised, and these pilot-tested with analysis of initial results. The results of the assessment will be used for ALP programme improvements and creating further improvement measures
Sustaining GSP-Plus Status by strengthened national capacities to improve ILS compliance and reporting – Pakistan The present Action aims at promoting the application of fundamental ILO conventions in the following ILO member states beneficiaries of the EU preferential trade scheme GSP+: El Salvador, Guatemala, Mongolia and Pakistan. The selected countries will be assisted to take action to apply these fundamental Conventions and meet their standards-related obligations, in particular in response to issues raised by the supervisory bodies and reported in the GSP+ Scorecards. They will also be assisted to enable them to fulfil their ILO Constitutional reporting obligations on these conventions. The intervention in building the capacities on fundamental international labour standards will use a mix of approaches, focussing mainly on institutional development. Activities could include: ¿ Awareness-raising and training on the content of selected fundamental ILS. ¿ Research to generate information on the status of implementation of ILS, including legislative gap analyses, advice on elements that will enable tripartite constituents to take the relevant decisions aiming at full implementation. ¿ Legal advice on the revision or drafting of legislation and regulations in the light of the supervisory bodies’ comments. ¿ Strengthening of data collection and reporting capacity of tripartite constituents including the capacity of using the systemic approach to managing ILS constitutional obligations. ¿ Publication/adaptation of thematic materials on the implementation of the concerned ILS.
Scaling up the VCT @ Work Initiative in Mozambique Notwithstanding considerable progress to scale up an effective response to HIV, still 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV do not know that they have the virus. This is particularly true in Sub-Saharan Africa, where only 45% of people living with HIV know their HIV status. In Mozambique, the low level of HIV testing among the youth population is compounded by the low levels of comprehensive knowledge, persisting stigma and discrimination and relatively higher prevalence among young women. This project addresses the underlying causes of low testing uptake among young people, targeting young women and men workers in the formal and informal economy. The project contributes to the reduction of HIV infections among young women and men workers in Mozambique, in line with the National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS 2015-2019, with the following objectives: 1. Young women and men workers’ knowledge and agency about their rights vis-à-vis HIV and gender enhanced 2. Increased testing uptake among young women and men workers including informal workers
Technical support on wages and collective bargaining This project aims at improving wages, income policies, working conditions and mechanisms for collective bargaining in Moldova. The ILO will promote capacity building on wage setting in general and on minimum wages in particular through improved collective bargaining mechanisms and by sharing international good practices. The ILO will assist constituents in applying ILO Conventions and EU Directives on Work and Family and Equal Remuneration. The focus will be on improving tripartite/bipartite mechanisms for minimum wage fixing at national and sectoral levels and on enhancing the capacity of the social partners and the government (as employer in the public sector) to negotiate the minimum wage, wages in general and wage premiums for unfavourable working conditions. Capacity building for the constituents will include sharing of good practices from other European countries and training on negotiations skills for the social partners. The capacity of the government to promote and of the social partners to engage meaningfully in collective bargaining will be strengthened through action aiming at improving law and practice of collective bargaining, and at supporting tripartite constituents in devising effective legal and practical measures. The work will contribute to the achievement of SDG 8, 5 and 10.
Strengthening the capacity of the Labour Administration (notably the State Labour Service) to Improve Working Conditions and Tackle Undeclared Work - Ukraine The project “Enhancing the labour administration capacity to improve working conditions and tackle undeclared work” is implemented in the framework of the European Union (EU)-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA), which focuses on supporting core reforms, notably employment policy, labour market reforms, and social development and protection. On the one hand, the project will work in close collaboration with law makers and social partners in support of their efforts to align Ukrainian OSH and labour legislation with a number of EU Directives and ILO Conventions. Also, the project will seek to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Social Policy and the State Labour Service (SLS) to better implement its mandate in the field of labour inspection with a special focus on the fight against undeclared work. To do so, the project will i) support the modernization of the Information Management System used by SLS staff to increase its reporting ability, ii) support the Ministry of Social Policy and SLS in the development and implementation of a multiannual strategy to fight against undeclared work, and iii) train SLS staff to ensure that they are able to enforce their mandate efficiently.
Promoting livelihoods of forcibly displaced persons and host communities The project will focus on developing a set of tools to promote sustainable livelihoods for refugees and host communities and test these tools and their applicability in one selected country, in cooperation with a running project of ILO and if possible with synergies to a project of the German development cooperation. In doing so, the project will apply a push-pull approach to livelihoods promotion. The push-pull approach is based on the assumption that, in order for people to build sustainable livelihoods two conditions need to be fulfilled: • There need to be opportunities on the market, either for self-employment if a certain good or service is demanded on the market, or for salaried employment if employers are looking for employees to recruit • People need the necessary skills and competencies to exploit these existing opportunities.
Employment for youth in Egypt (EYE): Providing a reason to stay The project aims to demonstrate the benefit of the human security approach in Egypt by addressing economic insecurities of young women and men in vulnerable local communities to alleviate the root causes of irregular migration in Nile Delta. Furthermore, the project will build on the lessons learned from the success of Hayat Project funded by UNTFHS and implemented by UNIDO, ILO and other UN partners.
Strengthening skills development system to promote access and employability especially of young women and men - GLOBAL Skills development is an essential prerequisite for youth employment and sustainable development and as such an important factor in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, limited access to high-quality education and training is a major obstacle for sustainable development and school to work transition. Thus, skills mismatch is a key development challenge faced by most countries, and the main causes are the weak capacity of institutions and staff; ineffective involvement of social partners; outdated curricula and training methodology; inadequate work based training including apprenticeships; insufficient funding; and fragmented governance. Skills policies and programmes also don’t focus on the needs of the rural economy, migrant workers, and women, and providing access to training and certification of skills of persons acquired through non-formal and informal means.
IMPROVE YOUTH EMPLOYABILITY AND MARKET OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR TO ENHANCE SELF-RELIANCE OF REFUGEES AND HOST COMMUNITIES Promoting local economic development and creation of employment opportunities in the construction sector for the Malian refugees in Mbera Camp and the host communities around the Mbera camp through technical and vocational trainings, financial inclusion schemes and insertion support services.
Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralised Service Delivery, Swiss UN-JPLG (Phase II) After decades of warfare, Somalia has been undergoing a peace and national reconciliation process creating a "development moment" with a unique opportunity to bring lasting peace and stability to the many areas made accessible in southern Somalia. The UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery for Somalia (JPLG), launched in 2008 for a period of five years, has established an important platform for seizing the development moment and has translated many of the ambitions of the “One UN” principles into tangible improvements in aid and wider development effectiveness. In its second phase (JPLG II), launched in 2013 for a period of five years, it has five partners (ILO, UNCDF, UNDP, UN-HABITAT and UNICEF). It will build on the achievement of the first phase and maintain the focus on strengthening local government as a means of enhancing the delivery of services to citizens and restoring confidence and credibility in the state. It will also improve state-citizen relations by linking local governments to their constituent communities and will engage the private sector transparently and accountably. To achieve this, the programme outcomes are structured around three mutually reinforcing strategies: 1. Supporting policy and legislative reforms for functional, fiscal and administrative decentralization 2. Improving local government capacity for equitable service delivery 3. Improving and expanding the delivery of sustainable services and promoting local economic environment
Better Work Viet Nam: Promoting Core International labour standards and compliance in the garment sector (1) The project seeks to strengthen social dialogue among the tripartite partners (government, employer and employee organizations) in the Vietnamese garment sector, and boost the capacity of both these partners and factories themselves to meet core international labour standards, particularly regarding freedom of association and collective bargaining. More concretely, the project provides strategic and operational guidance and training to the social partners and the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, with a particular focus on increasing respect for international labour standards. This work is of particular relevance in the coming years, as stakeholders seek expert support to help them adapt to the new trade and labour governance landscape expected under the forthcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. The project comprises two components: 1. Support to social partners, i.e. PAC, MOLISA, VGCL 2. Direct support to Better Work factories
Just Transition to a green economy In line with the overall objectives of the Agenda 2030, the transition to environmentally-sustainable economies presents many opportunities to achieve social objectives: it has the potential to be a new engine of growth, both in advanced and developing economies and a net generator of decent, green jobs that can contribute significantly to poverty eradication and social inclusion. In the context of this project, the ILO will support countries in applying the just transition guidelines - as adopted by the ILO Governing Body in November 2015. The Guidelines are both a policy framework and a practical tool to help countries at all levels of development manage the transition to low-carbon economies. Thus, the objective is (i) to support countries in their strive to create employment, ensure social well-being and protect natural resource and (ii) build a tested intervention model and best practice examples for other countries wishing to follow the just transition guidelines and adopt green jobs strategies that enhance economic and social inclusion while addressing climate change and implementing low-emission development strategies.
Building capacity for inclusive service delivery The Ministry of Welfare and Social Security (MoWSS) is implementing the "BUILDING CAPACITY FOR INCLUSIVE SERVICE DELIVERY" project in partnership with the African Development Bank. The project is managed by a Programme Implementation Unit established inside the Ministry. The ILO will take responsibility under the AfDB-MoWSS programme for the realisation of the programme's third outcome: Sustainable community-based safety-net platforms in North Kordofan and White Nile. These include the following activities: -Develop a Gender Sensitive Safety Net Framework and innovative solutions -Carry out and conduct a skills profiling and assess training needs for target population -Design a tailored training program suiting the skills profile -Develop implementation and financing plans for skills utilization for groups and individuals -Create Enabling Business Environment for the trained to practice skills and earn income