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Towards fair and sustainable global supply chains: Promoting formalization and decent work for invisible workers in South Asia The ILO/Japan project “Towards fair and sustainable global supply chains: Promoting formalization and decent work for invisible workers in South Asia” aims to contribute to the development of ethical and sustainable global supply chains. The project is geared towards promoting decent work in global supply chains – specifically for those workers who are engaged at the lower tiers. They are typically home-based workers, subcontractors, and workers in medium and small enterprises in the informal economy in South Asia. Towards the upper-tiers of global supply chains see, larger and more formal enterprise have linkages with large, medium-sized and small enterprises engaged in the production of goods in both the formal and informal economies. Due to competitive markets and demands for speedy delivery, these enterprises often adopt highly flexible production and work patterns. This results in informal working arrangements, piece-rate production, home-based work and non-standard forms of employment. This is the second phase of the project titled “Way out of Informality in South Asia” which has been implemented in Bangladesh, India and Nepal during 2012-2016. In close cooperation with government, employers’ and workers’ organizations, international brand companies, and other key stakeholders such as NGOs and networks working to promote decent work in global supply chains, the project works at the policy, institutional and community levels and implement key interventions in the areas of research, awareness raising and capacity building, knowledge sharing, social dialogue, and policy advocacy to contribute to the development of ethical and sustainable global supply chains. The project is implemented mainly in India and Nepal, and good practices and lessons from the project are shared with other South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Promoting Decent Work Opportunities for Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Turkey This project focusses on the implementation of policies and programmes aimed at promoting decent employment for the Syrian refugees and host communities by enhancing local capacity and delivering initial crisis impact assessments. Interventions have been including the identification of employment and training opportunities and the promotion of fundamental principles and rights at work for both refugees and host communities. The project has been implemented to enhance decent work opportunities for both refugees and host communities. Tripartite consultations has also been facilitated to promote an employment-rich response with better working and living conditions and to protect vulnerable Syrian refugee population categories such as children and women. Women cooperatives’ interventions have been supported to increase formal employability and labour market access of Syrian women refugees in Turkey. Support has been provided to enhance the institutional and operational capacities of national and local public institutions as well as employers’ and workers’ organizations to better tackle labour market challenges. Other interventions focus on increasing formal employability and labour market access of Syrian refugees in Turkey, as well as raising awareness on public employment services and the new legislation on work permits. The ILO has been active in the implementation of the UN Turkey Regional and Resilience Programme (3RP 2016-2017) jointly developed by UN agencies, which has led to the establishment of more coordinated region-wide as well as nation-wide UN response to assist the millions of Syrian refugees and local host communities. Work under this project is expected to contribute to ILO’s efforts in localisation of SDG 1, 4, 5, 8 and 10.
Legal and Institutional Reforms for Improved Labour Market Governance This project contributes to the ongoing labour law reform process in Myanmar through strengthening the capacity of the Government, employers and workers organizations in developing a labour law framework and its application. Its overall objective is to improve labour market governance through legislative and institutional reforms.
Gaziantep Women Only Center Providing Livelihood Support This project aims to support the social and economic stabilization of refugee women, and to contribute to their self-reliance and ability to co-exist with women from the host community by creating a women-only centre/oasis that provides Syrian and host community women with: (i) a protected social space with childcare, referral services and language/vocational/empowerment skills development; (ii) a platform for dialogue, co-existence and the development of joint empowerment activities. This project forms an integral part of the UN Women’s Country Programme Document entitled «Increasing the Resilience of Women Refugees in Turkey», and will provide an opportunity to kick-start the implantation of the programme in Gaziantep, and to test the implementation modality and the partnership framework before scaling up the contextual and geographical coverage.
Job Creation for Syrian Refugees and Jordanian Host Communities through green works in agriculture and forestry in Jordan This proposed extension of the project will build on what had been accomplished in the running project (15 KM of soil terraces already accomplished, 60 water cisterns constructed so far out of total 150 cisterns, installing irrigation system, and growing trees will start on early November). The proposed extension will improve agriculture productivity in selected areas and contribute to environmental protection and improvement (the soil terraces will decrease the surface run-off of rain water, which will keep the moisture of the agricultural soil for longer time, and will also decrease soil erosion, using the drip irrigation system will reduce the consumption of irrigation water up to 80%, as well the harvested rain water inside water cistern will be used for supplementary irrigation for the trees during drought hot summer). It will Introduce Green Works and Local Resource Based (LRB) approaches, which combine and optimize the use of local resources including labour. Green Works refers to infrastructure and agricultural works at community level that have direct agricultural or environmental benefits or are in response to a specific environmental context such as changes in climate and extreme weather events. Green Works covers a range of different infrastructure types and activities. It is proposed to support the Government of Jordan in support of local farmers (construction of water cisterns, terracing of slopes), and tree planting. These investments will create immediate jobs through employment intensive programmes in the three new governorates (Madaba, Zarqa, and Ma'an) as well as the previous governorates, Ajloun, Jarash, Karak, Albalqa and Tafila for both Syrian (women and men) refugees and host communities, and will benefit the communities overall by facilitating access to public services.
National Rural Employment Strategy in Lao PDR towards increasing opportunities for decent and productive employment in rural areas The project builds on earlier work ILO that has been carried out in the country as well as the lessons learned from the current demonstration work in Sekong province. The project continues to build capacity of line agencies, along with their provincial and district officials, in various policies, techniques and methods so as to build planning, implementation and monitoring capacities. It demonstrates collaboration with the private sector in a way that creates pro-poor value chains, productive and inclusive industrial linkages, and Decent Work. Through this, the much-needed link between policy development and implementation is established as are public - private partnerships. At the village level, the project supports small holder farmers in their nutritional and productive needs, through product and trade diversification and links to supply chains. This would require value chain development interventions, that could involve skills development, market linkages, technical training, among others. The project also opens opportunities for short term employment through rural road construction and maintenance works, utilizing community contracting of labour, through investments that facilitate access to basic services and markets. At the institutional level, the project works with the private sector by promoting extension of their supply chains to communities of small holder farmers and extending Decent Work opportunities in plantations. The strategy comprises design and adoption of appropriate purchase orders and decent contracts, establishing technology transfer channels and processes in collaboration with private sector partners and social dialogue will comprise the strategy. Further on the institutional level, government, social partners, mass organizations, and non-government organizations are the main implementers whose policies, services and capacities are developed to achieve the aims. Government’s role in providing an enabling policy environment and in service delivery, including through public-private partnerships, is a key thrust of the strategy. Training on gender mainstreaming, occupational health and safety, child labour sensitization is parts of all components of the project.
Peer review of the actuarial valuation conducted by the Iranian Social Security Organization as at 31 December 2015 The project delivers an ILO report on the actuarial valuations of long-term benefits administered by the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO), namely old age pension, total and partial disability pension and survivor pension. The final report will make recommendations arising from actuarial valuation results and in accordance with ILO standards and worldwide agreed social security principles. Moreover, ILO’s technical assistance will include a peer review of the actuarial valuation of long term benefits conducted by ISSO as well as a capacity building aspect on actuarial and statistical capacity for the ISSO staff to support future actuarial valuations and social security reforms.
Promoting Micro and Small Enterprises through improved Entrepreneurs’ access to Financial services (PROMISE IMPACTS) PROMISE IMPACTS presents a business model that seeks to close the gap in the supply and demand for socially responsible financial services as well as other services for the backbone of Indonesia’s real economy: the millions of micro and small enterprises that fail to gear up productivity because of missed opportunities linked to inaccessible or unaffordable capital or ignorance about its availability. The business model is based on the principle that financial service providers have a long term commercial interest in tapping more efficiently into this market of the future as well as in sustaining their relationship to clients. Addressing responsible financial inclusion, inducing innovations, will be done on three levels. Firstly, on the supply side by helping financial institution to understand better their clients’ needs through Social Performance Management, to operationalize their mission into specific social or development metrics, assess their performance against those metrics, and adjust their strategies and services accordingly (Outcome 1 of PROMISE IMPACTS). Secondly, on the demand side by raising financial capabilities and helping consumers to protect themselves as well as to access and use financial services wisely in order to take advantage of economic opportunities and enhance their productivity (Outcome 2).And lastly on the policy and regulatory side through promotion, support for implementation and regulation on responsible financial inclusion (Outcome 3).
Technical support on employment in Argentina The purpose of this project is to improve the capacity of the Ministry of Labour and of the social partners to develop active employment policies and to implement local economic development strategies in Argentina with impact on decent work. In recent years, the loss of dynamism in the economy has had negative effects on the labour market. Active labour market policies and industrial policies are therefore necessary for productive development with more and better jobs. The ILO strategy focuses on promoting more inclusive and effective labour market institutions and on the articulation of labour strategies with productive development policies. Interventions focus on: 1) the development of prospective studies to anticipate the demand of employment and skills in strategic sectors and supply chains, jointly with the social partners; 2) technical assistance to the Ministry of Labour to strengthen its capacity to analyse employment and vocational training requirements; and 3) the development and dissemination of studies on productive development policies, successful technologies and the articulation of employment with the productive sectors in Argentina.
Towards gender equality and women's empowerment in the occupied Palestinian territory - 2nd phase The human security challenges facing Palestinian women and men are multiple and cannot be resolved through a piece-meal approach. Improving women's access to decent work in the West Bank and Gaza Strip needs to take into account the ramifications ensuing from continued Israeli occupation, the limited employment opportunities generated by the Palestinian economy, the inadequate provision of social protection, in addition to social norms prevailing in Palestinian society. A comprehensive approach towards gender equality in the world of work continues to need attention to strengthening capacities of institutions to recalibrate wages and conduct regular gender-neutral job evaluation; investing in diversifying career opportunities for young girls and encouraging women to enter the labour force by securing necessary services, including provision of accessible and affordable quality child care. Such an approach can be achieved through research, capacity building, social dialogue and awareness raising. This initiative will focus on new areas of work such as pay equity and care economy while expanding work on gender based violence in the workplace and cooperatives.
Technical Assistance for Needs Assessment for Capacity Building of SMEs and Other Stakeholders in Lao PDR The Government of Lao PDR has received funding from the World Bank Group for the Small and Medium Enterprises Access to Finance Project (US$20 million). The objective of the Project is to provide long-term funding sources for commercial banks to provide long-term credit to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This will be achieved by increasing the supply of long-term finance provided by commercial banks and by strengthening the capability of Department of SME Promotion (DOSMEP), within the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) to formulate and implement public policies that promote access to finance for SMEs. The Project includes two components: (i) A Line of Credit (LOC) channeled through Participating Financial Intermediaries (PFIs) for on-lending to SMEs; and (ii) Technical Assistance (TA) for DOSMEP, PFIs and SMEs. The Project is managed by the DOSMEP. Other agencies involved in project implementation include PFIs for the LOC and National Implementation Unit (NIU at MoIC) for fiduciary tasks (procurement and financial management). Detailed information on the project is available on DOSMEP website (www.smepdo.org) in these relevant documents: Project Appraisal Document (PAD), Project Implementation Manual (PIM), and Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF).
Skills and labour market insertion among university graduates The ILO is partnering with the UK Government North Africa Good Governance Fund to promote prosperity and economic development in Algeria by supporting reform for growing and inclusive economies that offer stability and prosperity including in marginalised areas. This intervention addresses the issue of unemployment of the young population and their readiness to enter the employment market in terms of skills. This project supports skills and labour market insertion of university graduates by enhancing employability skills of students and graduates, in particular job search and entrepreneurial skills, by building the capacity of key governmental labour market actors such as ANEM, CNAC and ANSEJ, and of universities to strengthen their links with enterprises, and by reducing the skills mismatch between skills of graduates and labour market requirements. The main focus is on capacity building at the macro and meso level in order to have a long term impact on envisaged ultimate beneficiaries, being un- and underemployed higher education graduates and university students that expect better perspectives on the labour market.
Strengthening skills for trade and economic diversification in Egypt and Tunisia In Tunisia, two priority sectors will be identified through stakeholder consultation. The sector level STED work then builds on existing trade-related studies such as from the International Trade Centre and data to put in place a process chain from assessment and diagnosis of potential sectors, collecting qualitative and quantitative information through structured interviews, building capacity of both public and private partners for sectoral social dialogue to come to a common identification of a sector’s current and future skills needs and gaps. This results in an action plan based on recommendations for reforming skills development systems, instituting specific training programmes and governance mechanisms, and developing institutional platforms for establishing social dialogue on skills development in the sectors of the economy with export-growth potential. In Egypt, the STED findings in both sectors have been validated in December 2014 and recommendations for priority actions expressed. All activities will be implemented in close collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Small Industries, the Ministry of Manpower and Migration, and the Sector Export Councils and the Enterprise Training Partnerships in the two sectors. Targeted trainings for identified skills gaps will be provided, as well as technical assistance provided for the revision of curricula. ILO cost-sharing is ensured through a US-funded project targeting export processing zones, DANIDA and CANADA funded Youth Employment projects and an Italian-Egyptian Debt Swap-funded Career Guidance project.
EU-India Cooperation and Dialogue on Migration and Mobility (EU-India CAMM Project). #N/B
Strengthening the social protection floor for informal workers In the context of the ILO’s broader approach to social protection, this project focuses primarily on social protection measures for those of working age in the construction industry, namely access to employment injury insurance. The project contributes to a definition of modalities for coverage of workers in the construction industry, particularly in non-standard forms of work. Through its Technical Working Group, the Royal Government of Cambodia has endorsed the extension of social protection to the informal economy and proposed a gradual strategy for extension of coverage. The construction sector, due to its increasing weight in the national economy and precarious working conditions, represents a good starting point for the implementation of this strategy. The project’s immediate objective is to strengthen the Social Protection Floor for Vulnerable Workers in Cambodia’s Construction Industry through the extension of the Worker’s Injury Insurance branch of the National Social Security Fund. The project uses a 3 phase approach, Phase I will be carried out jointly with the ILO project on occupational health and safety of construction workers in Cambodia and thus starts by developing a deeper understanding of the sector’s market system. Phase II will zoom into more specific value chains and generate evidence about the decent work deficits and need for social protection, including tripartite partners voices. Finally, having identified bottlenecks, Phase 3 will propose practical and innovative options for the extension of social protection to the target group.
Support GSP+ beneficiary countries to effectively implement ILS and comply with reporting obligations. The project aims at strengthening the realization of fundamental principles and rights at work in Mongolia. The action in Mongolia is designed with a specific attention to conditions of work in small and medium-sized enterprises. The project assists the tripartite constituents (specifically the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, the General Agency of Specialized Inspection, the Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions, the Mongolian Employers’ Federation) and stakeholders (the National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia) to organise and engage workers and employers in the informal economy in social dialogue and labour-related policy process. It is expected that by the end of the project, Mongolia will have an improved legal and regulatory framework that accords operators in the informal economy the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining and greater national capacities to address labour rights in small and medium enterprises.
Labour Force and Households' Living Conditions Survey 2014 (LFHLCS) ILO is partnering with Central Administration of Statistics (CAS) to implement the first ever Labour Force and Living Conditions Survey that will address the significant demand for data from Government agencies, international and national partners. The results of the survey are of critical importance to contribute to better implementation of various projects and to ensure that potential policies and actions are designed in such a way that they are appropriate to the real effects of the Syrian crisis. Reliable survey results will also be vital in providing baseline data to support the monitoring of the actions included under the Stabilization Framework for Lebanon. The overall objective of the action is to improve the quantity and quality of statistical information in general with specific focus on the impact of the Syrian crisis on Lebanon and in particular to social and economic data. The LFHLCS survey will be designed to produce estimates not only at the national and governorate (mohafaza) levels, but also at the level of individual districts (caza) . The survey will thus yield statistical indicators on the conditions of work and life in Lebanon that highlight regional disparities and characteristics. Such indicators are needed for policy-making and will be useful for illustrating the situation at district level, particularly since Syrian refugees tend to be concentrated in particular districts (such as the Beirut urban agglomeration or districts close to the border with Syria). This will be the first time for the CAS to undertake a household survey aimed to provide reliable estimates at the level of cazas. As a result, the LFHLCS will be the largest household survey ever carried out in Lebanon. The planned LFHLCS survey will be conducted in four quarterly rounds. It will be implemented over a period of 24 months. This period includes several months for survey planning, design and preparation, as well as several months for analysis of the data cumulated over the four quarterly rounds, and drafting and dissemination of the final survey report presenting data at the caza level. The quarterly data obtained from the survey at the national and mohafaza levels will be analysed and disseminated as soon as available.