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Increased progress in attaining SDGs though the promotion of Decent Work and inclusive economic growth in rural and urban areas in Azerbaijan This project focuses on the implementation of actions aimed at strengthening the capacity of ILO constituents in Azerbaijan to support processes towards making significant progress in attaining the SDGs through the promotion of decent work and inclusive economic growth in rural and urban areas. It prioritises action on SDG accelerators, in particular youth employment and formalization, as identified by the Government with ILO support. The project will enable Azerbaijani constituents to actively engage in collaborative mechanisms and partnerships with national and international actors so as to improve coordination and coherence of the activities aimed at achieving the SDGs through the following set of actions: i) social dialogue to improve coordination of actions and policies among social partners and government institutions; ii) policy-oriented research and exchange of knowledge and international good practices for effective implementation of policies and strategies; iii) technical support to advance progress on the selected decent work accelerators, specifically on economic diversification, youth employment, SME competitiveness and sustainability; and iv) decent work advocacy through the inclusion of decent work in national development strategies and programmes and relevant policies at sub-regional and multilateral levels. This project contributes to the country’s efforts to advance towards the attainment of SDG targets 8.2 (Achieve higher level of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors) and 8.3 (Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation,, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services).
Support to the Hellenic Statistical Authority of Greece for the completion of Table 29 of Regulation 549/2013 (ESA 2010, Chapter 17) for the years 2016 and 2015 The Hellenic Statistical Authority of Greece (HSA) has requested the ILO to provide specific support for the completion of Table 29 of Regulation 549/2013 (ESA 2010, Chapter 17) for the years 2015 and 2016. In particular, this support is mainly related to modify six actuarial valuation pension models used by the National Actuarial Authority of Greece (NAA) for the actuarial valuation of these schemes in order to calculate Accrued to Date Liabilities (ADL) using a closed group methodology. The NAA makes use of actuarial pension models which are fully customized versions of the ILO generic pension modelling tool. The models have been customized in order to closely comply with national social insurance legislation and capture national pension peculiarities. In 2017 the ILO has supported NAA for methodological enhancements to the NAA projection models needed to be introduced in the context of continued improvement of the accuracy of the projection results (in addition to fully reflect recent legislative amendments L.4336/2015 and L.4387/2016). The agreement is part of long-standing technical co-operations between the ILO and the Government of Greece, which were initiated in 2005 in the early years of the establishment of the National Actuarial Authority of Greece (NAA).
Promoting fundamental conventions of the ILO - ratification of conventions 87, 98, 105 The purpose of this project is to implement a series of gender responsive interventions designed to improve the existing legal framework with respect to the elimination of forced labour and elimination of discrimination consistent with the ILO’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and support progress towards the ratification of three outstanding Fundamental ILO Conventions (Conventions 87, 98 and 105). This project is consistent with the One Strategic Plan of the UN, which is being appraised by the Government, which includes outcomes promoting "a fairer, inclusive labour market [that] ensures decent work and opportunities for all," (Outcome 3.2) and policies and institutions support a new economic model, which is inclusive and more productivity-led, reaping gains from trade liberalization, international integration and migration” (Outcome 3.1).
Promoting the Right to Pay Equity and Childcare in Jordan The proposed project builds on well-established partnerships with workers’ and employers’ organizations, government representatives, civil society and active women’s groups. It also builds on technical work delivered between 2015 and 2017 partially funded by the government of Norway. The project adopts a multi-layered strategy working at policy-level through the National Committee for Pay Equity as well as at grass root level through the engagement of workers’ unions and civil society organizations. The project applies a sectoral approach that involves in-depth research on sector-specific dynamics in relation to workers’ rights and in particular women workers’ rights. It then expands to community organizing, awareness raising and advocacy. The approach has been adapted to the private education sector where unacceptable forms of work have been identified in particular in relation to gender wage discrimination, social security coverage and maternity protection. While important milestones have been achieved in the previous phases of the intervention on the private education sector, issues remain to be tackled in particular in ensuring that more private schools are reached in Jordan and that the movement of private schools teachers is mature nationwide to achieve permanent change. In connection to this, the project will apply a gender-responsive human resources management system. This will follow the experience already undertaken in Irbid in 11 private education schools that went through a capacity building process of their human resources systems to make sure that they become gender responsive in particular on issues related to wage discrimination, social security coverage, maternity and breastfeeding. This experience will be expanded to 10 new private education schools in Amman, Zarqa and Madaba governorates. This will provide an opportunity to include the agenda of women in management and leadership as well as work on violence and harassment against women and men in the world of work . Furthermore, this project will continue supporting the work of government and civil society to promote the establishment of 3 childcare facilities concentrating on professionalizing the skills of 30 caretakers. Overall, throughout the project, a social dialogue approach will be applied by involving the social partners at every stage as well as applying a community organizing approach to increase awareness of women’s rights in the given sectors. The aim is to promote effective and participatory collective agreements, and raise women workers’ voices and representation in negotiation platforms.
Delivering impact insurance The ILO’s impact insurance Facility collaborates with AXA’s Emerging Customers team to design and deliver impact insurance innovation to benefit low-income workers, especially women and migrants, in a selected country in Asia. The key output of this collaboration are critical insights into the design and delivery of insurance products for excluded populations, especially women and migrants, which will be widely shared with the insurance and development communities. To achieve this result, the ILO and AXA will test relevant insurance products in a specific country and publically share the resulting lessons and experiences. The ILO supports this effort through engagement of its Impact Insurance Facility, and place an insurance Fellow with one AXA country office to support project management and implementation of the designed solution. The Facility also promotes peer learning and capacity building of other providers within the AXA network in order to promote the application of lessons learnt on this project in other countries. The collaboration between the ILO's Impact Insurance Facility and AXA is basd on the believef that the private sector should play an important role to drive the change needed to protect millions of low-income households. AXA is a like-minded organization focused on providing quality solutions to the excluded populations, especially women and migrants. As an advocate of social change, the Facility acts as a champion of the insurance industry, building trust among consumers and governments in the potential of the insurance industry to help achieve household and broader market objectives concerning risk management, resilience, and economic development.
Ensuring a Gender-responsive approach to Decent Work – Cambodia The gender component of the ILO/Sida Partnership Agreement (PA) will be focused on work related to gender and women’s empowerment in selected countries leading to results linked to and reportable under the Program and Budget 2016-17 (P&B). Consequently the specific outputs and activities are framed within the structure of the P&B, namely Outcome 4 (Promoting Sustainable Enterprises), 6 (Formalization of the Informal Economy) and 8 (Protecting Workers for Unacceptable Forms of Work). The project will advance the four priorities of the ILO’s Women at Work Centenary Initiative (W@W) namely: increasing women’s access to work; making work pay; women, work and care; and combatting violence at work. It will provide targeted, results-oriented support on one or more of the W@W priorities to ILO constituents in Cambodia, Cote d’Ivoire, Jordan and in the Latin American region.
ILO/Regional Skills Programme/Japan Skills Development in Asia and the Pacific 2015-2018 (3 years) A just and inclusive transition to a greener economy requires focus on skills. Skills are needed both for the newly emerging jobs and for the adjusted or “greened” existing jobs. Without a suitably trained workforce, a smooth and effective transition will be impossible. Skills gaps and shortages are already recognized as a major bottleneck in a number of sectors and industries, such as, but not limited to, Energy sector- renewable energy, energy efficiency; construction sector- energy efficiency and resource efficiency; Service sector- provision of environmental/waste management, etc. Responding to current and emerging concerns on skills development for green jobs, the ILO/Japan Skills Programme will focus on the theme: Skills for Green Jobs for the next three years. This proposed Programme will cover a three-year period, starting from Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-2016 to 2017-18, inclusively. The first year (FY 2015-16) of implementation will cover the overall approach on skills for green jobs, challenges, issues and priorities. The second year (FY 2016-17) will focus on the sectoral approaches to skills for green jobs with the selection of two sectors. These could include any two sectors like building/construction, tourism, energy, agriculture, etc. which will be affected by green structural changes. The third year (FY 2017-18) will address the challenges involved in identifying and projecting/anticipating what skills will be required in the future. The proposed Programme aims at mainstreaming green and environmental concerns into the skills policy and skills standard development. The overarching goal is to assist the countries to transition to a low-carbon and sustainable economy through skills development. The ILO/Japan Skills Programme will continue to be a forum where Member States will be able to gain information and good practices from Japan's experiences in the field of skills and employability.
Better Factories Cambodia - Phase III BFC strategic Phase III (2016 – 2018) is aiming to contribute to improving lives of at least 500,000 workers, their families and communities, and boost competitiveness in the Cambodian garment and footwear factories. BFC will achieve this vision by achieving the following Outcomes: Outcome 1 Cambodian exporting factories in the garment and footwear sector will have strengthened their capacity to improve and uphold compliance with the labour law. Outcome 2 BFC will have strengthened its engagement with the Cambodian government to improve their capacity to identify, non-compliance issues, strengthen enforcement, and uphold labour standards. Outcome 3 BFC will have strengthened its engagement and partnerships with key stakeholders for increased influence and impact on working conditions in factories and the systemic issues in the sector as a whole Outcome 4 BFC will have used its experience and data to inform and influence practices and policies related to responsible business practices in the industry Outcome 5 BFC will have strengthened its governance and management for increased sustainability
From Research to Practice The global struggle to end child labor and forced labor is hampered by a lack of relevant and accessible research on effective policies and strategies and how they can be applied in different contexts. Policy makers and practitioners, who are in a position to make decisions that would impact the economic and social drivers of forced and child labor and the risk factors affecting different populations, may not be aware of relevant research, may not be able to access it, or may not be able to apply it effectively to their own situation. On the other hand, research may not be fully attuned to the needs of policy makers, may suffer from lack of scientific rigor, and may not be accessible beyond a limited academic audience. This project addresses critical factors that prevent effective policies and strategies being widely applied. Firstly, it addresses the challenge of access. Drawing on the global networks and capacities of the ILO and the UNU and their long experience in the field, the project will collect, assess and validate relevant research, tools and data. Secondly, the project will identify knowledge gaps and develop both a global research agenda and country-level plans to address the gaps and (in the case of country level plans) actively apply knowledge and tools to eliminate child labor and forced labor. Researchers, academics, institutions and policy actors at all levels will be involved in identifying the gaps and developing the research agenda, building shared understanding of and commitment to the issues. The third outcome will improve the capacity of researchers to study child labor and forced labor issues by significantly increasing the supply, quality and accessibility of professional training for researchers at all levels of expertise and in all regions, but particularly those who may not have locally accessible access to training. The project will develop course modules that can be delivered in a wide variety of training contexts, and a delivery mechanism for open online courses. Finally, the project will work to increase the number and level of engagement of researchers from a variety of disciplines in issues of forced labor and child labor through a combination of small research grants (aimed at addressing the knowledge gaps identified through the project), a research fellowship and expanding access to relevant research awards.
DESARROLLO DE CAPACIDADES PARA EL FORTALECIMIENTO DE LA INSTITUCIONALIDAD DE LAS POLIITICAS PÚBLICAS DE EMPLEO, FORMACION Y CERTIFICACION LABORAL El Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, ha establecido la promoción de una "cultura del trabajo para el desarrollo", como uno de sus ejes prioritarios en la presente administración. Una de las variables que desarrollan este cometido es la capacitación y formación, no sólo en términos de años de estudio, sino también de la pertinencia y calidad de los conocimientos adquiridos, tanto en los ámbitos de educación y capacitación, como aquellos propios del trabajo. La Dirección Nacional de Empleo DINAE y el Instituto Nacional de Empleo y Formación INEFOP, necesitan mejorar sus mecanismos de coordinación e interacción así como fortalecer las capacidades de sus equipos técnicos para mejorar la calidad y pertinencia de las ofertas de capacitación y certificación de competencias. Asimismo, se requier la modernización de las herramientas para la negociación colectiva, en lo que atañe a la descripción y valoración de cargos. En este ámbito es necesario capacitar equipos técnicos en la Dirección Nacional del Trabajo de la DINATRA y de los representantes de empleadores y trabajadores involucrados. El proyecto se propone promover la cultrua del trabajo para el desarrollo mediante acciones de fortalecimiento institucional del MTSS (DINAE-DINATRA) y el INEFOP, el desarrollo de capacidades para la actualización de las descripciones ocupacionales y valoración de cargos en dos grupos de los Consejos de Salarios, y el diseño e implementación del programa nacional de certificación ocupacional, con la participación activa de los actores sociales. Al efecto obtendrá resultados basados en herramientas de uso práctico que permitan: 1. El fortalecimiento del MTSS (DINAE-DINATRA) y el INEFOP y la institucionalización del SNFP. 2. Diálogo social efectivo en torno a los contenidos de los empleos, su descripción, evaluación y desarrollo. 3. Diseño e implementación del programa de certificación y reconocimiento de competencias. Cada una de estas áreas de resultado es un objetivo inmediato para el cual se han previsto productos prácticos en la forma de Guías y Manuales de aplicación inmediata. En los resultados 2 y 3 se desarrollarán aplicaciones piloto para aplicar y validar las metodologías. Para desarrollar capacidades en MTSS e INEFOP se llevarán a cabo acciones de capacitación a un grupo de técnicos y otros actores sociales interesados en el desarrollo de los conocimientos dentro de las áreas mencionadas. El proyecto se ejecutará en OIT/Cinterfor durante 24 meses y trabajará estrechamente con un Comité Coordinador integrado por el MTSS y actores sociales representados en el Consejo Directivo de INEFOP.
Job Creation and Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Syrians under Temporary Protection and Host Communities in Turkey The overall objective of this action is to strengthen the economic and social resilience of Syrians under Temporary Protection (SuTP) and host communities. Specific Objectives are: To increase the availability of a skilled, competent and productive labour supply to facilitate access to decent work for SuTP and Turkish host communities; to promote an enabling environment for business development and economic growth in identified sectors and geographic locations to address job creation and stimulate entrepreneurship opportunities for SuTP and Turkish host communities; to provide support to labour market governance institutions and mechanisms in implementing inclusive development strategies.
Supporting Ministry of Labour and Social Development in analysis, policy and capacity development Over the last four decades Saudi Arabia has achieved important socio-economic development. In April 2016, the Kingdom launched the Saudi Vision 2030, an ambitious long-term plan for sustainable development. To build the institutional capacity necessary to achieve the goals of the vision, the National Transformation Program (NTP 2020) was launched in June 2016 across 24 governmental institutions operating in the economic and development sectors. The Ministry of Labour and Social Development (MOLDS) is responsible for a number of the targets of the NTP2020, as well as the actions needed to reach them. This project is a direct response to a demand by MOLDS for ILO support. It will provide technical assistance and policy advice in a number of key thematic areas in support of KSA Vision 2030 and NTP 2020, and other national initiatives. It builds on the synergies between the national long-term vision and the global agenda for sustainable development where the ILO is a contributing agency the UN Common Country Strategic Framework 2017-2021. It is intended to develop the capacity of MOLSD and its staff in various directorates to formulate and manage national development strategies, and of the social partners where applicable. The government’s aims as informed by the KSA Vision are to: - lower the rate of unemployment from 11.6 per cent to 7.0 per cent; - increase the economic contribution of the private sector from 40 per cent to 65 per cent of GDP; - Increase women’s participation in the workforce from 22 per cent to 30 per cent, especially in managerial and leadership positions. The ILO will provide technical assistance and support, as well as capacity building, in three priority areas agreed upon between the ILO and the MOLSD: (1) boosting women’s employment and moving towards a more inclusive labour market; (2) enhancing social dialogue mechanisms for better policy formulation; and (3) assessing the child labour situation and developing actions for its elimination.
Promoting ASEAN Initiatives in TVET and Skills for Inclusive Future of Work In close collaboration with the ASEAN Secretariat, ILO has initiated the implementation of Mutual Recognition of Skills (MRS) to assist ASEAN Member States (AMS) in preparing themselves for a region with a free flow of skilled labour since 2014. MRS was initiated by ILO as a key mobility tool for technical/vocational skilled workers (level 1-4: low-middle level skills) within the framework of the ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework (AQRF). AQRF aims to smooth out the path in the negotiation between nations and facilitate the free movement and employment of qualified and certified personnel. While continuing with the efforts for building institutional capacity of CLM countries, preparing them for MRS, the project will facilitate regional dialogue towards the actual implementation of MRS and piloting selected cases. In addition to the MRS work, the ILO/Korea Partnership Programme will extend and deepen a regional debate on skills and the future of work that was initiated with the ILO/Korea TVET Forum in October 2016. Building also on the other ILO forums on the subject since, the project will disseminate the outcomes of those forums and facilitate further regional dialogue on national skills strategies for the future of work to explore options and new perspectives as the AMS prepare to meet future skills challenges. It will also strengthen knowledge sharing, cooperation and networking of vocational training institutions of the region. The project will include a small pilot initiative for enhancing employability of low-skilled women and men workers who are deemed at high employment risk as a result of increased automation and computerization.
Promoting Fundamental principles and rights at work in electronics supply chains The research to be supported by the Government of the Netherlands, will deal essentially with country-level activities and its primary objective is to produce a comprehensive study on how the various production processes, related to Electronics, function and the potential use of child labour and forced labour in upstream and downstream operations. A deeper understanding of the processes that underlie the Electronics supply chain is imperative and therefore, the major objective is to conduct research from procurement of raw material to the manufacture of final products. It is intended that the research into would focus on the rudiments of production to highlight production subdivisions where the exploitation of children, forced labour of workers and lack of representation is most pronounced and how these might be tackled in practice. In this regard, two countries will be identified; one to cover upstream mining of ore (most probably DRC in Africa) and the other dealing with downstream manufacture (In Asia but yet to be identified).