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Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralised Service Delivery,Norway UN-JPLG (Phase II SWISS) 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
The ILO and PBSO programme to sustain peace and foster development through employment creation in conflict-affected situations The main objective of this project is to contribute to sustaining peace by advocating for pro-employment strategies and implementing concrete employment and decent work programmes that are targeting youth in fragile, conflict-affected and disaster-prone communities and countries. The outcomes of this project are: More youth in conflict-affected countries engaged in meaningful pro-peace employment by increasing resources from PBF and other UN funds with an employment mandate in partnership with the ILO JPR flagship programme; Strengthened institutions in conflict-affected countries (central and local government, workers’ and employers’ organizations and value-based civil society organizations) that actively participate in social dialogue on employment and labour-related issues, contributing to sustaining peace and the achievements of SDGs 8 and 16, by increasing the share of ILO programmes with such a focus; Enhanced ILO and PBSO capacity to mainstream employment and decent work particularly for youth in peacebuilding dialogues and policies at global level (both in New York and Geneva) to feed the UN system with new instruments and holistic approaches addressing conflict-affected and fragile situations and protracted crises.
Green enterPRIZE Innovation and Development in Zimbabwe The proposed project seeks to contribute to solving a series of inter-related development problems, such as high levels of youth employment, low levels of formal and growth oriented entrepreneurship and unsustainable production processes of SMEs in Zimbabwe. The causes of these problems stem from, among other things, historical gender inequality where women, and especially young women, do not have access to equal technical skills and entrepreneurship development opportunities. In addition, the current education system does not produce work ready graduates and neither graduates with entrepreneurial skills and competencies, which results in both young men and women struggling to find employment as well as struggling to start their own businesses. In addition, an inadequate legal and regulatory green economy framework means that enterprises, first of all, lack incentives to move towards sustainable operations and, secondly, lack awareness about opportunities in the green economy wherefore many firms continue to source unsustainable inputs and continue to pollute water and air. Finally, a stagnant economy with very low levels of economic activity has led to virtual de-industrialization with many larger enterprises folding resulting in growth of informal SMEs as those laid off seek alternative means for a living. In summary, the labour market currently does not create enough formal employment and green jobs opportunities.
From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labor (The Bridge project) From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labor (The Bridge project) The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), has provided funding to the International Labour Organization (ILO) for a project to support global and national efforts aimed at combating forced labor under the 2014 ILO Protocol and Recommendation on Forced Labor. The project will: (1) promote the ratification and implementation of the Protocol and implementation of the Recommendation by countries by providing technical assistance to governments and other key stakeholders, (2) support interventions at the global and country level to advance the campaign to eradicate forced labor, including addressing gaps in legislation, awareness raising campaigns, supply chain monitoring, law enforcement training, best practices on compensation and other remedies, research studies and surveys, and (3) develop and implement direct action measures to prevent forced labor, to protect victims, and to provide them with access to remediation, including compensation for material and physical harm.
Joint UN Plan on AIDS - Uganda According to the Uganda Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment (2016/17), it is estimated that 45% of HIV infected males have not yet been diagnosed, 48% of males known to be HIV positive have not been enrolled into care and males are now the face of AIDS-related deaths in the country. The fact that fewer men are receiving HIV treatment means that there is a group in the population with high HIV viral load. There is also growing evidence around poor health seeking behaviour among men, largely influenced by socio-cultural norms, beliefs and values, which is attributed to the low up-take of HIV testing, prevention and treatment services. The project's immediate objectives are a) mobilize and sensitize workers among male-dominated sectors for increased uptake of HIV VCT services; and b) strengthen capacity of the private sector to institutionalize and implement the resource mobilization and accountability framework of the one dollar initiative for HIV&AIDS.
Strengthened institutional capacity of Employers' organisations This project builds on ILO engagement with business organizations in Myanmar to date, and will focus on sustainability of services, broadening the scope of research and policy advocacy beyond labour and employment issues to the broader range of business environment factors that affect business sustainability and job creation. The project aims at supporting internal reforms to improve sustainability and professional capacity of business organizations; development of research, policy advocacy, and member services that promote the creation of decent work and improve the enabling environment for sustainable enterprises; and provision of high-quality labour services to garment sector businesses and advocacy on evidence-based enabling environment reforms that promote the creation of decent work. The project will expand the scope and depth of engagement with business organizations. It will ensure that partners are on a path towards sustainability through increasing revenues, expanding membership, and tailoring their offerings to the demand of the private sector. It will assist employers to transition from activities that are largely reactive initiatives to work which is more long-term and strategic in nature, helping businesses in Myanmar to take proactive steps in their policy and service delivery work. This project contributes to the country’s efforts to advance towards the attainment of SDG target 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).
Technical support on employment policies for youth, women and migrants The project aims to improve employment policies with particular attention to women and young people. The focus of this intervention will be threefold: (a) implementation of the National Employment Policy in view of supporting the introduction of employment objectives in other sectoral strategies, including the industrial and competitiveness policy; (b) design and implementation of Territorial/Local Employment Pacts based on the role of the tripartite Territorial Commissions for Consultations and Collective Bargaining; and (c) implementation of the recommendations from the functional audit of the Public Employment Service (PES), particularly with regard to the changes in the organizational setup, the extension and improvement of services and outreach of the PES (regional offices, activation packages, monitoring and evaluation functions). In the framework of the Decent Work Country Programme Moldova 2016-2020, the intervention seeks to enhance capacities to define and implement a more comprehensive employment framework at national and local levels in line with the new UN Joint Programming Framework (UNDAF 2018-2022), as well as Moldova’s commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals
Sea Fisheries: Strengthened Coordination to Combat Labour Exploitation and Trafficking in Fisheries in Southeast Asia The SEA Fisheries Project aims to reduce trafficking in fisheries, by strengthening coordination and increasing the efficiency and efficacy of the efforts already underway at the national and regional levels. Given the considerable array of actors and initiatives, a regional coordination body will be established and supported to build links between the key interventions and approaches, develop and implement joint strategies, and share information. The project will be regional in nature, with a particular focus on Thailand and Indonesia. One of the first priorities of the project will be to set out the specific mandate, composition and functions of this regional body, drawing from other multi-stakeholder initiatives in the region and beyond. The entity will be broad-based and include various government departments (the competent authorities on labour, migration, trafficking and fisheries), civil society organizations, workers ‘groups, industry associations, buyer groups, international organizations and research institutions. Scoping and analysis of the activities of the key stakeholders will shape the design of action plans at the regional level, and for Thailand and Indonesia as two regional hubs of activity in this area. To support the common goals of these action plans, the project will deliver specific activities and conduct research and analysis. Ownership and participation, in particular by the governments, regional institutions, the private sector and development partners, will be key to ensuring sustainability. Links will also be made with national task forces and ASEAN frameworks on migration, trafficking and fisheries. The integration of the regional coordination body and strategy into existing structures will be explored from the project outset.
One UN approach to disability statistics There is general agreement that more efforts need to be made by the UN system to promote the collection of statistics on persons with disabilities and for this to be done in a coordinated way, ensuring that data are comparable and in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The proposal takes into account the views expressed by UN Member States during the March session of the UN Statistical Commission. The project proposal addresses this objective and does so by building on work currently being developed by WHO, UNICEF and the Washington City Group on Disability Statistics. The proposal will also trigger the work to be led by the ILO in the area of employment. The UNPRPD support will contribute to a process of mutual learning among UN agencies on these different initiatives and produce a joint narrative which will ensure a One UN approach in the area of disability statistics, which will be a strategic contribution to the post-2015 development framework, which shall include more attention to persons with disabilities, also through having more disability disaggregated data.
PROMESS’: Promotion des Organisations et Mécanismes de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire Five years after the revolution of January 14, 2011, Tunisia has brought about significant improvements at the political front, such as greater freedom of expression and the establishment of a democratic regime, but failed to generate a similar progress in the economy. The turmoil and instability of the post-revolutionary period in 2012 and 2013 have negatively affected the tourism industry and at the same time diminished the flow of foreign direct investment. The economic difficulties have increased the unemployment rate mainly in rural areas, especially among young people and, within this group, particularly for young women and graduates which in 2014 stood at 14.8% of the active population (11.4% in men, 22.2% women) . In this context, the Dutch funded project DEPART (TUN/12/03/NET), by using ILO’s DEL approach to promote youth employment for young Tunisian men and women in three regions (rural and urban remote areas) Le Kef, Gafsa and Ariana, has successfully implemented action plans to create decent jobs for youth through the full participation of local committees representing all local actors and stakeholders (including ILO social partners), the project achieved all planned outputs focusing on creating decent jobs for youth through social economy enterprises and organizations (SEEO) (cooperatives, social enterprises, group based income generation activities as spin-off associations, etc..) as well as building the capacity of local actors to further support youth employment at the local level, especially in rural remote areas. Building on these achievements the PROMESS’ project will consolidate, replicate and upscale the positive outcomes of DEPART. PROMESS’ will assist the Tunisian government, social partners and civil society in establishing a conductive legal and institutional environment for social and solidarity economy in Tunisia. The project will continue and upscale the successful rural youth employment initiatives implemented under DEPART in the Le Kef governorate, and replicate those in three additional governorates, thus covering the entire North West region. Moreover, PROMESS’ will make its expertise, strategies and tools available to other development projects promoting social and solidarity economy organizations and mechanisms in Tunisia.
Technical support on formalization of informal economy in Montenegro This project aims at putting in place inter-institutional coordination mechanisms to implement measures to promote the transition from the informal to the formal economy in Montenegro. Strategies for the transition from the informal to formal economy and the reduction of undeclared work require a long-term commitment as well as coordinated and concerted action by all stakeholders, including the social partners and relevant public agencies, such as the labour inspectorate and the tax authority. The focus therefore will be threefold: first, to improve the understanding and monitoring of informal economy and processes of informalization and formalization by the government, the National Statistics Office, the National Employment Agency and the social partners; second, to facilitate effective action to support formalization and prevent informalization; and third, to promote decent work for workers in the informal economy. While addressing selected strategic elements of these three components, interventions will place special emphasis on fostering collaboration between the social partners in the development, implementation and monitoring of interventions. The action contributes to the achievement of SDG 8, 5 and 10. The new UNDAF 2017-2021 places informal economy high on the agenda as one of the priorities under the Economic Governance Pillar. The work of the ILO will be implemented in close association with UNDP.
Technical Support on Decent Employment This project is part of the ILO Flagship Programme on Jobs for Peace and Resilience and is based on the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205). It builds on consultations with the ILO tripartite constituents and on the results of a joint research effort involving the ILO, UNDP, the World Bank and the United Nation’s Peacebuilding Support Office on “Employment Programmes and Peace” (September 2016). The project will be developed at the national level, promoting policy reform and building institutional capacities, and at the local level through pilot projects in urban and rural areas. The ILO will: i) provide support to increase the skills and employability of men and women in vulnerable situations through better employment services and vocational training; ii) strengthen entrepreneurship and the provision of financial and non-financial services to small enterprises and cooperatives; and iii) integrate employment-intensive investment approaches in public works, especially for rural roads and infrastructures.
Technical support on formalisation of the economy in Paraguay This project aims at strengthening the institutional capacity of constituents to promote transition from the informal to the formal economy in Paraguay. ILO will help deepen the understanding of the causes and consequences of informality, especially in terms of social protection, and provide support for the development of an action plan to implement the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204). The project focuses on analysing and disseminating successful experiences for formalization targeting youth, domestic workers and persons with disabilities. It also includes a capacity building component for social partners and provides policy advice in terms of formalization of independent workers and micro-enterprises, through social dialogue. A specific objective of the intervention is to build the capacity of the social protection system in terms of affiliation of informal workers and compliance with the existing regulations.
Skills for Productivity and Employment In the three year time frame, the project will enhance youth employability and contribute to meeting the Government’s objectives to reduce youth unemployment as well as improve productivity and quality of young people in the work force. This work will build up national capacity to improve the outreach of services to link quality training to better youth employment outcomes in keeping with the commitment of the Saint Petersburg Development Outlook priorities on HRD. The project will contribute to the delivery of the ILO mandate to Nepal constituents within the Decent Work Country Programme (2013-17), agreed outcome (NPL 127) that “vulnerable groups, especially young men and women, have improved access to employment services and to productive employment and income opportunities.”
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United for Youth Employment in Cambodia A United Nations Joint Programme (UNJP) developed to provide assistance to the Royal Government of Cambodia to address the critical issue of youth employment in the context of the rapidly growing, export-led national economy. It aims at facilitating young people’s entrance into the labour market, while reducing inequalities – particularly for disadvantaged and vulnerable groups - and ensuring young women and men are better able to meet labour demand. The UNJP is a partnership between the United Nations system and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The UNJP capitalizes on the complementary mandates and areas of UN expertise, which, when pulled together, can more effectively contribute to address the challenge of youth employment in Cambodia. Hence the programme benefit from the combined strengths of ILO, UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF and UNV. The cooperation of the participating agencies counts on additional resources secured from the organizations' core funding and from other donors.
Employment and Peacebuilding - Building Bridges Amongst Youth at Risk in Lebanon The project will enhance youth engagement through activities that would i) promote social stability and conflict resolution; and ii) improve their employability (skills-training, youth entrepreneurship, and job placement initiatives). Together these two sets of activities will foster positive interactions between Lebanese and Syrian youth and create livelihood opportunities. ILO component on Know About Business (KAB) programme contributes towards the creation of an enterprise culture by introducing and promoting awareness among young people on the opportunities and challenges pertaining to choosing self-employment as a potential career option. The component seeks to enhance social stability by using joint entrepreneurship classrooms to increase mutual trust and understanding among enrolled Syrian and Lebanese youth in addition to proposing a positive alternative to their potential participation in conflict situations or engagement. This course will encourage youth to choose self-employment and will promote joint ventures among Lebanese and Syrians. This approach is to be considered a pilot in the Lebanon context. Given Lebanon’s legal framework, the start-ups will be developed jointly by both Lebanese and Syrians, but will be solely owned by Lebanese. It is hoped that this approach can both empower Syrian youth to pursue similar activities once back in Syria and promote business linkages across borders with Lebanese young entrepreneurs. For Syrian and Lebanese youth who are unemployed and not enrolled in schools, a boot camp will be organised in collaboration with local community-based organisations and will include ILO training programmes such as My First Business (MFB) and a business plan competition to encourage the joint-business ventures. Financial and mentoring support will be provided to winners of the Business Plan Competition to ensure a successful operationalizatin of their start-up phase. The project also foresees the delivery of self-employment sensitization workshops targeting parents of the Syrian and Lebanese youth engaged in the boot camp. The sensitization workshops aim at the creation of an enabling, positive and supportive family environment that would encourage selected Syrian and Lebanese youth to venture into self-employment.