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Support to ACI 2: Jobs and skills for youth - Samoa Samoa is a small island nation located in the South West Pacific. In 2014, it was reclassified from a least developed country (LDC) which status it had held since 1971, to that of a lower-middle-income economy. The Samoan Government has mainstreamed employment creation in its Strategy for Development (2012-16) and it has prioritized youth employment in the National Youth Policy (2011-15). The new DWCP (2013-16) identifies as one of three priorities that: “Young women and men have greater access to information and employment services to support their transitions from school to work”. While Samoan people and their economy are significantly affected by the effects of youth employment, the country is yet to establish a national employment policy or a national action plan to address the challenge. This project builds on the existing ILO support to Samoa. It will follow the strategy of its Area of Critical Importance (ACI2 – Jobs and skills for youth) so that following 14 months of implementation, Samoa will be able to count on: ¿ A National Action Plan on Youth employment which highlights priority measures based on the identification of human and financial resources requirements, endorsed by the Government for its implementation. ¿ A strengthened institutional framework to coordinate, monitor and report on the delivery of a National Action Plan on Youth Employment. Furthermore, recognizing the net lack of jobs, and as highlighted in the recent UN SIDS Conference, the continued momentum and growing funding and investment in climate change in resilient, adaptation and mitigation efforts through increased climate financing, there is a need to (a) create sustainable jobs and (b) initiate a national dialogue on integration of job creation and enterprise development in climate change.
UN Joint programme on local governance and decentralised service delivery-DANIDA contribution The UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralised Service Delivery for Somalia is a 5 year Programme of ILO, UNCDF, UNDP, UN-HABITAT and UNICEF. The Programme is aligned to the programming frameworks of the Somalia Reconstruction and Development Programme 2008-12 and the UN Transition Plan 2008-9. It is envisaged to achieve as wide a coverage in Somalia as resources and conditions allow with a comprehensive approach to rendering local governments as credible and professional service providers, increasing public investment in basic services, and strengthening civic awareness and participation in local decision-making and development. The strategy pursued will comprise: (i) policy and legal frameworks for decentralisation, local government, service provision and land; (ii) institutionalising local government systems, vertical and horizontal inter-government linkages and civic education initiatives; (iii) investment in public services and goods through testing the Local Development Fund model, direct service provision and promotion of publicprivate partnerships; and (iv) processes and systems for housing, land and property disputes and resolution. Throughout the Programme, strong emphasis will be placed on gender and women in local government, human rights and local governance, and good governance principles of transparency, accountability and participation.
Improving the sustainability of the Social Security Commission’s maternity benefits provision and extending maternity protection for informal economy workers in Namibia There is growing feeling and need in Namibia, that maternity protection needs to be improved in line with international and national developments. The Social Security Commission has expressed the need to assess the current provisions with a view to adapting the current benefit. ENVISAGED ILO SUPPORT (ACTIONS/ RESEARCH TO BE DONE) AND SEQUENCING 1. Carry out an actuarial valuation in order to see the implications of removing the current ceiling of N$10,500 for the maternity benefit i.e. allow payment of maximum basic salary. 2. Carry out an analysis of impact if the leave period is increased from the current 90 days and provide possible recommendations thereon. 3. Carry out feasibility and cost of extending the maternity benefit to the Informal Sector.
Combating Abusive Child Labour II Combating Abusive Child Labour II (EC/ILO Contribution Agreement No ASIE/2007/144-940) International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) Salient Features: Project Name: Combating Abusive Child Labour II Geographic Region: Sindh, North Western Frontier, Punjab, and Balochistan Provinces of Pakistan Start Date: 01 April 2008 End Date: 31 March 2013 Duration: 60 months Executing Institution: ILO Partner Institutions: Government, employers’ & workers’ organizations, and NGOs EC Contribution: Euro 4.75 million Other Contributions: ILO Contribution Euro 447,900 Government of Pakistan (in kind, as part of the Financing Agreement signed with the EC) Brief Project Profile: The overall objective of this Project is to contribute to the Government of Pakistan’s efforts towards eliminating child labour, in particular its “worst forms”. The Project will contribute to the execution of the Government’s National Policy and Plan of Action to Combat Child Labour, mainly the National Time Bound Programme (2008-2016) - its medium term plan for combating the worst forms of child labour. The Project, as the umbrella programme, will take over the technical responsibility from current TBP Project of Support to coordinate all on-going and planned IPEC interventions with a view to maximize synergies among their actions that will eventually lead to multiply the combined effect. The Project focuses on children working in hazardous occupations under the most intolerable conditions ranging from exposure to chemicals and other harmful substances to long tedious working hours. It will cover all hazardous sectors and occupations identified by the national legislation. Building on the past experience of ILO/IPEC, the Project is aimed at a major intervention to remove about 5,500 working children from hazardous occupation and to prevent about 1,000 of their younger siblings from taking their positions in the labour market. The major achievements envisaged under this Project are: 1. Promoting the “District Model to Eliminate Abusive Child Labour” that has been proven successful under the TBP Project of Support and replicate it in the target districts and beyond; 2. Institutional strengthening at the district, provincial and federal level through the enhancement of capacity of respective child labour units and the establishment of child labour monitoring and referral system; and 3. Creation of child labour knowledge base through conducting the second National Child Labour Survey and related research studies, and promoting the development and adoption of pro child policies and legislative framework. Various partners will be involved in the implementation of Project components. They include: Ministry of Labour & Manpower, employers’ & workers’ organizations, local government authorities, NGOs, networking organizations, research institutions, and media. Under the leadership of the National Steering Committee on Child Labour, the Project Advisory Committee will provide policy guidance and direction to the project activities and periodically monitors the project progress. *****************
Development of the international dimension of the database on transnational company agreements The joint management project aims to enhancing under a quantitative and qualitative perspective the international dimension of the database on transnational company agreement (TCA) hosted by the European Union. Outcome 1: International Labour Standards promoted through the updating and monitoring of a database where acquired knowledge of the EC and the ILO is gathered
Raising awareness : forced labour features through images The project aims at eliminating all forms of forced labour through awareness-raising on forced labour issues, reinforcing the ILO’s complaints mechanism and promoting community empowerment. Through the project a series of short films will be developed. These will take the form of short-documentaries (15 minutes each approx.) representing the different faces of forced labour, notably child and bonded labour, traditional forced labour, trafficking for forced labour, and forced recruitment with an emphasis on underage recruitment. The ILO will work with local partners, to jointly develop a message that effectively raises awareness on what constitutes forced labour, the harm it causes to men, women and children, and what they can do to prevent and combat it. The short-documentaries will be based on ILO’s experience in the field and will notably use the ILO’s complaints mechanism network of over 800 facilitators during the pre-production and production phases as source of relevant information, testimonies and dissemination thereafter.
Introduction of Know About Business at the Development and Employment Fund The project will contribute to fostering an enterprise culture in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan by promoting entrepreneurship education among youth. The ILO KAB programme will be tested and assessed as an entrepreneurship education curricula for young Jordanian women and men enrolled in the Vocational Training Corporation (VTC). Through the integration of entrepreneurship education the project will: • Create awareness of enterprises and self-employment as a career option for young people. • Provide knowledge and practice of the desirable attributes for and challenges in starting and operating a successful enterprise. • Facilitate the school to work transition as a result of a better understanding of functions and operations of enterprises. • Develop positive attitudes towards enterprises and self-employment among youth. The project will be implemented under the umbrella of the Development and Employment Fund (DEF) who will be considered the project donor and the project counterpart. DEF will also assume the promotion of the KAB programme to the Ministry of Education, universities, community colleges and other potential beneficiaries. Under this project, DEF will pilot the KAB programme in the VTC whose graduates are potential beneficiaries of DEF’s financial services. Entrepreneurship and business skills taught in KAB will enable students to consider establishing a sustainable business using their acquired vocational skills. Given DEF’s mandate, it will make it easier for youth who complete the KAB course and have the willingness to start a business to access funds to start their businesses if they so wish. Furthermore, graduates of the KAB Programme will be considered as potential clients of DEF who will benefit from the following financial facilities namely : • Priority for KAB certificate holders to benefit from loans, • Decrease in the personal contribution of the business start up capital from 30% to 10%, • Decrease of collateral requirements • Provision of a longer repayment and grace period.
Support the elaboration of a national reform plan with a view to formalize enterprises in the agro-pastoral sector
DISABILITY-GLOBAL: Irish Aid-ILO Partnership Programme, Phase II, 2014-15 In the period 2014-2015, Irish Aid funding will support the ILO thematic programme ‘Promoting Rights and Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities in Employment through Legislation’ (PROPEL – Phase 2). Taking a results-based approach, this programme aims to enhance employment opportunities for women and men with disabilities, through the creation of an enabling legal and policy environment, the promotion of access to skills development opportunities and through measures to eliminate discrimination. The thematic programme includes global and country level activities, planned to address identified needs while taking into account the recommendations of the Mid-term Evaluation of the programme in 2012-2013, in particular the recommendations to increase the focus on gender mainstreaming, develop synergies with other related projects and initiatives and adopt standard reporting formats across all PROPEL projects. Building on previous ILO Irish Aid Partnership Programme (ILO/IA PP) experience and results achieved in PROPEL Phase 1 at country level in Botswana, China, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Viet Nam and Zambia PROPEL Phase 2 will continue to work in these countries while initiating outreach work in two further countries – Mongolia and Myanmar. The programme will also have a global component which will support country level activities through the development of practical tools for advocacy and policy advice; capacity building; collaboration with ILO and other UN partners in promoting the collection of comprehensive, comparable statistics on the labour market situation of persons with disabilities; awareness-raising activities and publications to highlight the impact on end-beneficiaries; and the development of impact indicators. This programme overview document summarises the country level projects, which will be described in separate proposals, and focuses in particular on the activities, outputs and outcomes envisaged through the global component.
Strenghtening capacity building of national institutions to undertake data collection on labour/cooperatives issues
Promoting Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work through Social Dialogue and Gender Equality
Support to the African region's part of the inter-regional deliverables for strengthening workplace compliance
Appui à la Formulation de la politique nationale de l'emploi et de son plan d'action au Burundi Le présent projet répond aux requêtes datées respectivement du 31 mai 2012 et du 6 mars 2013 adressées à la Coordination du Système des Nations Unies au Burundi et au Directeur Générral du BIT aoncernant l'appui à la formulation de la Politique nationale de l'emploi au Burundi. L'appui du PNUD et du BIT a pour objet d'aider le Gouvernement du Burundi à conduire un processus participatif et inclusif délaboration dune politique nationale de lemploi (PNE) sous-tendu par un plan daction opérationnel. Lassistance technique du BIT couvre: la mobilisation de la participation des partenaires sociaux (Organisations dEmployeurs et de Travailleurs) ; la réalisation des missions dappui technique au Comité de pilotage de la PNE à certaines phases critiques dudit processus. Les réunions clé du Comité auxquelles un Spécialiste Emploi du BIT participera seront définies en étroite collaboration entre le président dudit comité, le BIT et le PNUD; la mise à disposition du Burundi de lexpertise technique du BIT afin dassurer le contrôle-qualité des documents élaborés par les consultants nationaux et le consultant international ; la participation du BIT aux travaux des Etats généraux de lemploi qui auront pour tâche de définir les orientations stratégiques et programmatiques de la politique nationale de lemploi ; la participation à latelier de validation du document de la PNE et son plan daction.
Strengthening Skill Assessment & Certification Systems in Afghanistan In response to major challenges in the TVET sector in Afghanistan, the project will: a. improve the quality of national occupational skill standards (NOSS) and curriculum for priority occupations and sectors in the formal and non-formal sector; b. implement NOSS and associated curricula through the major government providers of TVET (MoE and MoLSAMD); c. oversee certification of 15,000 TVET graduates by an internationally recognized institution (An equitable division will be decided upon between MoE and MoLSAMD’s institutions); d. develop a set of core/generic NOSS and curriculum modules for inclusion in TVET programs; and e. assess the feasibility of introducing new regulatory arrangements linked to the Afghanistan National Qualifications Framework (ANQF).
Labour-based public works EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. Project Background Liberia’s 14 years of civil war has clearly undermined its huma n development and devastated the country’s infrastructure. To address this unfortunate situation, there is the need to rebuild infrastructure, human, institutional and societal capacities. Therefore, the Government of Liberia (GOL) with the support of its technical and financial partners, including the Bank Group, has recognized that the infrastructure rehabilitation and capacity challenges in Liberia have to be addressed as priorities. 2. Sector Goal, Project Objective and Brief Description The sector goal is to contribute to the improvement of productive livelihoods and service delivery. The specific project objective is to improve capacities for infrastructure maintenance and local development. 3. Project Cost and Source of Financing Total project cost is UA16.04 million, of which the total African Development Fund (ADF) contribution amounts to UA15.24 million, or 95 percent of total project cost. The total ADF contribution will be provided as a grant and used to finance the project’s total foreign exchange costs and part of the local currency costs. A Government counterpart contribution of 5% of the total project costs, amounting to UA0.80 million is required. 4. Project Implementation The Ministry of Public Works (MPW) will be the executing agency for the proposed project. The Special Implementation Unit (SIU) under the MPW will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the project. ILO and Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment (LACE) will be engaged to implement parts of the Project in conformity with specific responsibilities to be outlined in Delegated Management Contracts with GOL. 5. Conclusions and Recommendations The I-PRSP of Liberia identifies infrastructure rehabilitation and capacity building as key to the country’s recovery, economic growth and poverty reduction. Therefore, by focusing on these aspects, the project will address the very negative effects of the conflict on Liberia’s reconstruction and development. Therefore, it is recommended that an ADF Grant not exceeding UA15.24 million be granted to the GOL for the purpose indicated in this report, subject to the conditions stipulated in the Protocol Agreement. It is also recommended that the Government’s contribution to the proposed project be reduced to 5 percent of total project cost, in compliance with Bank Group ADF X Financing Policy Guidelines
Supporting the implementation of sustainable social protection floors for the workers and their families in ASEAN
Enabling job resilience and protecting DW conditions in rural communities affected by Syrian refugees crisis in Nothern Lebanon
Amélioration de la productivité et des conditions de travail dans les MPME, notamment de l'économie informelle et des petites entreprises creatices d'emplois verts
The Sustainable Enterprise Development Facility for Job Creation in South Africa The development objective of the proposed Sustainable Enterprise Development Facility (SEDF) for South Africa is to create decent jobs for men and women in three provinces through entrepreneurship promotion and development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in sectors and value chains with employment potential. The creation of jobs and enterprises within these sectors will be achieved through a strengthened collaboration between private and public sector partners to identify gaps in the market where real business opportunities lie. The immediate project objectives are: 1. To nurture a culture of entrepreneurship among young men and women 2. To improve the enabling business environment 3. To better match demand for and supply of business development services (BDS) 4. To stimulate innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainable enterprise development The immediate project outcomes are: i) improved entrepreneurial attitudes and increased entrepreneurial intentions among young men and women; ii) an improved provincial business environment; ii) increased uptake and improved impact of BDS for emerging and established entrepreneurs; and, iv) innovative business ideas and business plans developed and implemented. The project builds on the outcomes and results of the ongoing Free State SME Development Initiative and is an extension and expansion of this initiative to the entire Free State (FS) province as well as to the province of Kwazulu Natal (KZN).
Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) – Ghana Phase II 2013-2017 Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) is a practical training and workplace improvement programme to increase the productivity of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) while promoting respect for workers’ rights. The programme demonstrates best international practice in manufacturing and service sectors and helps SMEs to participate in global supply chains. Under SCORE Phase I (2009-2012 – funded by SECO and NORAD), the ILO has built the capacity of 19 institutions (government agencies, training organizations, industry associations and trade unions) in emerging economies in Africa, Asia and Latin America to offer SCORE training to SMEs. SCORE Phase II as proposed in this document will extend the project to 2017, focusing on programme sustainability after donor funding ends. Preliminary estimate of results of SCORE Phase I As of October 2012 (6 month before project end), the project has achieved the following: - The project has built capacity in 19 institutions (government agencies, industry associations, training organizations) in seven countries to offer the SCORE training programme. These institutions have trained more than 250 SMEs representing more than 49.000 workers and conducted more than 500 consulting visits. More than 2000 managers and workers have jointly participated in classroom training. - Enterprise Improvement Teams consisting of managers and workers in SMEs are meeting on average 3.4 times per month to implement 8 jointly identified improvement projects. More than 50% of enterprises report cost-savings due to the training (from 300 to 15,000 USD within 2-3 months), 80% report reductions in defects (-10% on average), 42% report reductions in energy consumption (-2% KwH per production unit), over all participating enterprises, absenteeism has decreased by 3.6%. - An independent final evaluation in October 2012 concluded that “SCORE covers essential aspects of workplace relations and working conditions, and generally responds to the needs and requirements of most of the SMEs encountered. Relationships between management and the workforce have improved through workplace cooperation (particularly reaching down to the workforce level).
Advocacy Strategy for the domestic workers Convention in the Gulf States The International Labour Organisation (ILO) will build on the momentum generated by the adoption of Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201 concerning decent work for domestic workers, by rolling out a regional advocacy strategy in the Arab States. The aim of the initiative is to determine with ILO constituents ways in which national legislations could be adapted in conformity with the new international legal standards, as well as examine the possibility of Arab States ratifying the new Convention. The advocacy will focus on Bahrain, Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman over a period of two years. While it may take time to obtain ratification of the new Convention, engagement on the issue will help remind ILO constituents of all the other labour conventions that have been ratified and encourage them to revise national legislation in accordance with the new legal norms. The ILO will also seek to respond to the concerns and needs of its constituents as they find ways at the national level to promote and protect the rights of domestic workers.