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Better Work Viet Nam: Union Capacity Development The project to come will build upon the foundation laid by preceding and ongoing ILO projects to promote effective social dialogue and sound industrial relations in which the promising commitment by all levels of unions have been secured. The project will address the needs of multi-level unions in order for them to better support BWV programme in its implementation and thereby to better support improvement of labour compliance in the garment industry in Vietnam. BWV programme aims to establish harmonious and functioning bipartite cooperation in export oriented enterprises in the garment sector. To that end, PICC union members will particularly need capacity-building training in order for social dialogue to be effective and sustainable. The project aims to train 1500 PICC union representatives in 300 enterprises. At the completion of training trade union PICC members will have been equipped with a good understanding of their responsibilities and problem-solving capacity in participating in Better Work improvement process; unions at different levels will have acquired knowledge about and exposure too, a range of union and representation issues including different and best practice approaches to negotiation skills, consultation/communication, recruitment/organising, dispute settlement and collective bargaining; the roughly 15 EAs will have acquired more skills and professionalism in facilitating the establishment of PICC in participating factories, and subsequently in guiding both managers and worker members on PICCs to fulfil their respective roles and responsibilities.
Modernización de la Formación Profesional en Costa Rica Con el Proyecto se busca contribuir a la modernización del Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje, de manera que logre ser más flexible, oportuno, eficaz y eficiente en la prestación de sus servicios a la población del país. Para lograr lo anterior, se han establecido acciones que tendrán impacto en diferentes momentos: • Corto plazo: establecimiento de mecanismos para agilizar la implementación de decisiones estratégicas • Mediano plazo: construcción de estrategias para mejorar e innovar en servicios actuales • Largo plazo: identificación de una estructura que permita la modernización integral del INA, para lograr la oportuna vinculación entre la demanda y la oferta de mercado.
Labour Market Policy Inventory in ASEAN The overall objective of the market inventory research is to strengthen the technical capacity of the ASEAN countries in collecting and using data on employment and social protection with a view to develop appropriate policies and actions in the face of regional and international trade integration. To achieve this overall objective, the project will focus on three main pillars of intervention: i) Set up and maintain the database of employment, social protection and social dialogue policy responses at the ASEAN regional level This will be done through the update of the existing ILO inventory database, using the same survey questionnaire for all ASEAN countries and their main trading partners (at least 35 countries) including Switzerland. The updated database will enable national policy makers (i.e. Trade Ministries, Labour Ministries) to identify the challenges brought about by economic and trade integration for the enterprises and workers. The database will be also used to track policy responses in ASEAN countries related to the economic and trade integration process. This will involve technical and methodological inputs from the ILO research team so as to set up the database and train statisticians, Labour Ministries or local researchers in the regular update and maintenance of the database. ii) Assess the potential impact of specific policy measures in selected countries (focus on Vietnam and Indonesia), and develop policy recommendations addressing labor market priorities This will involve supporting labour market institutions in the region with a special focus on Indonesia and Vietnam through the development of employment projections, social security modules, and labour market programmes evaluation.
Promoting fundamental principles and rights at work in cotton supply chain The objective of the project is to improve respect for fundamental rights at work for a sustainable cotton supply chain. The project’s strategy is built around three mutually reinforcing outcomes: 1) Improve the knowledge based on fundamental rights at work in the cotton supply chain; 2) Advance respect for fundamental rights at work in cotton growing communities: 3) Contribute to meaningful stakeholder dialogue and engagement on fundamental rights at work at the industry level. The project will implement its three outcomes in India and Pakistan. In China, the project will prioritize outcomes 1 and 3 and will concentrate on Outcome 2 in Mali.
Financial Mechanisms for Innovative Ecosystems in the Social and Solidarity Economy This project is based on the continued collaboration with partners, such as the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social and Solidarity Economy of Luxembourg, who have supported the ILO in bridging the gaps by building and strengthening networks between actors of the world of finance and actors of the SSE. The project aims at fostering a better understanding of the global ecosystems (i.e. the relations and interactions between a number of SSE stakeholders) favouring SSE, and the financial mechanism that support and consolidate them.
Inclusive Growth, Social Protection and Jobs (Inception phase) (IGSPJ Irish Aid/ILO)-Southern Africa Component Poor and marginalised communities are vulnerable to a wide range of shocks and stresses. Growing inequality and the persistent exclusion of the poorest from the benefits of economic growth increases their vulnerability. A major cause of poverty and vulnerability is inadequate levels of income and persistent irregular employment. People at the ‘bottom of the pyramid’ are often excluded from productive activities, and have limited access to essential public services. In Viet Nam, despite the economic growth in the last decades and an increasing trend to formalization, informal economy workers still represent about 70 per cent of the working group, and more than 12 million people living below the national poverty line. Poverty has a higher incidence in rural areas, particularly affecting ethnic minorities. The coverage gaps in terms of adequate social protection are still significant. For instance, around 70 per cent of people from the age of 60 to 79 still do not benefit from any social transfer from the Government. Besides no provision for families with children are in place. By providing poorer households with an income, social protection instruments and basic access for physical infrastructure, including access to markets, will enable people to obtain better prices and incomes and increase their productive investments notably in health and education. In addition, the ILO, over the last four decades, advocated for employment intensive investment approaches in job-rich sectors and has developed technical and managerial tools for effective adaption and rollout of these approaches including Employment Impact Assessment (EmpIA) tool, Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning (IRAP), Technical and Managerial guidelines (for programme managers, supervisory staff and local enterprises), Productivity norms for labour-based construction, Trainer's toolbox of training techniques, Rapid assessment of poverty impacts (RAPI) as well as the biggest depository/database for Innovative EI technology and works method. This programme will directly benefit poor and vulnerable communities in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Viet Nam.
Establishing an Independent Social Security Institution for the Administration of the New Social Security System for Private Sector Workers and their Family Members in Palestine (Ph1) Under phase 1, the ILO envisages provision of technical assistance to guide the performance, sustainability and transparency of the future social security administration and shall propose different scenarios for the implementation of the new social security institution, to be discussed and agreed upon with the recently established tripartite Board of Directors. The Board should then adopt one scenario. The scenario will inform the development of the features of the new social security administration, including the organizational structure, the main elements of the business processes (e.g. enrolment procedures, contribution collection, processing of claims for benefit and payment of benefits), and the detailed HR/IT processes. Moreover, networking, linkages and bilateral exchanges of information and experiences will be established with relevant national, regional and international institutions to be able to provide client centred administration based on state-of-the-art administration concepts and to benefit from best practice experiences in social security administration. This phase will also include the development of awareness raising materials in order to strengthen the knowledge of the Palestinians, specifically the beneficiaries, on their rights and obligations and the main provisions of the new social security law as well as processes and tools to access benefits. The current project will include five different outputs: -Developing a situational analysis and scenarios for the performance, sustainability and transparency of the social security administration, and facilitate adoption of one scenario by the Board of Directors; -Developing an organizational structure for the institution; -Proposing client centred services to Palestinians either through a network of offices or web services or a combination; -Developing a business process map in order to fulfil the specifications for IT systems and HR; -Developing awareness raising materials to strengthen the knowledge of Palestinians with regard to the social security system.
Applying the G20 Training Strategy (Jordan) This project is a second phase of the project ‘Applying the G20 Training Strategy: A Partnership of the ILO and the Russian Federation’ based on the agreement signed between the two Parties in November 2012. The Project covers Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and the Russian Federation within the CIS countries, as well as Jordan in the Middle East and Viet Nam in Asia, referred to in the Project Document as the countries-beneficiaries or the Project Countries. The first phase of the Project completed in 2016, and was designed to strengthen Skills Development systems, develop and test tools, and facilitate knowledge-sharing on Human Resources Development (HRD) issues. In 2016, the Russian Federation, represented by the Ministry of Finance, has agreed to further contribute USD 12 million towards the implementation of a second phase of the Project for the period covering 2016-2019. An agreement was signed in December 2016 between the ILO and the Russian government. The second phase is a continued response of the Russian Federation and the ILO to support the application of the G20 Training Strategy to the Skills Development and employment needs in a defined range of countries. During Russia’s Presidency of the G20 in 2013, HRD was identified as a main objective of its Development Working Group. Gender equity will be an essential strategy element of all aspects of the Project. The phase is intended to continue the support for implementing the G20 commitments on HRD agreed at the Leaders’ Summit in September 2013, namely: to enhance national capacities to meet labour market needs, and to develop regional and international cooperation for training. These objectives include assistance for the developing and middle-income countries to assess their Skills Development needs and build up national capacity in delivering quality training, including through inclusion in the training programmes of specific components raising participants’ awareness and equipping them with the knowledge and practical skills that would allow them to pay special attention those groups facing the greatest barriers to finding or remaining in employment such as youth, women, long-term unemployed, low skilled workers, single parents, people with disabilities and older workers. The major focus of the Project is not on producing the ready-made training products for countries-beneficiaries for their use but rather on “development of national, regional, and sectoral capabilities” to analyse and improve their national and sectoral Skills Development systems. In Phase 2 over 1,460 participants in the training initiatives and pilots to be conducted by the Project, including overall at least 30% females.Development of Phase 2 was built on the results and the lessons learned from the first phase while fully taking into account the findings, conclusions and recommendations made in the independent mid-term evaluation and in the final evaluation of the first phase of the Project which, in particular, insisted on the involvement of all key stakeholders in overall project planning and design.
Communication campaign to support the roll out of the Health Insurance Scheme of the National Social Security Fund Following the establishment of the Employment Injury Scheme in 2008, The NSSF is working to set up its second branch, the Social Health Insurance. By the end of April 2017, the scheme reached 642,708 workers out of the first target of 1.1 million to cover formally employed workers. However, no comprehensive communication strategy directed at the mass population of beneficiaries has been put in place. This has resulted in some cases of confusion amongst workers who may not understand why 1.3 per cent of their salary is suddenly being deducted - it is the first scheme with a contribution from workers. The present project aims at filling this gap by providing support to the NSSF in developing and implementing a communication strategy, notably to better engage with social partners. The project will result in more aware workers and employers as well as in better capacities of NSSF to communicate. It is expected that the project will contribute to the development of a culture of social protection in the country.
Mejoramiento de las condiciones laborales y la productividad de la cadena de valor del banano Project Outcome (ILO component): Agricutlure producers and workers (together with their organizations) realize their rights to comply with labour legislation. Result 3: Capacity building plan on labour legislation, social security, OSH, freedom of association and collective bargaining prepared and applied in one agriculture enterprise. Activity 3.1. Promote and train agriculture producers and workers on labour legislation Activity 3.2. Design and implement a capacity building plan to certifiy enterprises
Implementation of the national employment injury scheme of Bangladesh - A legacy to the Rana Plaza accident The overall objective of the project is the adoption of a sustainable national employment injury insurance (EII) scheme for workers employed in the formal sector in Bangladesh, starting with the ready-made-garment sector (RMG). The partnership will ensure that the legacy of the Rana Plaza accident includes sustainable long-term national capacities and systems are put in place, including the effective coverage of all workers to be protected by a national employment injury insurance scheme, so that accidents with unprotected workers such as in the case of the Rana Plaza and Tazreen Factories never happen again. The partnership builds upon the fruitful collaboration with the Government of Germany in Bangladesh since the Rana Plaza accident of April 2013 in the RMG sector in general. Efforts have largely contributed so far to the Sustainability Compact for Continuous Improvements in Labour Rights and Factory Safety in the Ready-Made Garment and Knitwear Industry in Bangladesh (8 July 2013). Development Objective This project proposal intends to support: (1) the advocacy work that is yet necessary to reach a commitment from among key actors to the development of an EII scheme based on principles that are both in line with C.121 and acceptable to them; (2) the completion of the on-going feasibility study that will serve as a basis for engaging a tripartite national dialogue and for the drafting of a legal framework; (3) the development of a bridging solution for the period until the EII scheme is operational and; (4) the activities leading to the adoption of the legislative framework for the EII scheme. (5) the creation of greater gender equality in support to the National Development Plan of Bangladesh, namely the vision of the Perspective Plan 2010-21 ‘to build Bangladesh into a resilient, productive, innovative and prosperous nation with a caring society consisting of healthy, happy, and well-educated people. It is expected that the operationalization phase of the new public EII administration will start after 2017; first covering workers of the RMG sector and gradually extending coverage thereafter to all wage earners in Bangladesh. Various specific areas of work are proposed as mentioned below. Project Coordination The establishment of an EII scheme in Bangladesh involves many actors: first of all theGovernment (Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Health,Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Justice, Cabinet), Employers (BEF, BGMEA, BKMEA),Workers (NCCWE, IBC) and NGOs (BILS, OSHE, CARITAS, CRP). These Bangladeshi partners will be supported by ILO, BMZ, GIZ, DGUV, other providers of development assistance, global buyers etc.
Estudio sobre empleo juvenil en México El proyecto "Estudio sobre empleo juvenil en México” tiene el principal objetivo de generar conocimiento como herramienta fundamental a través del análisis cualitativo y la sistematización de modelos de intervención y experiencias de políticas públicas y programas en materia de empleo juvenil, proveer de herramientas únicas para el diseño de políticas públicas enfocadas a mejorar las condiciones de empleo y de capacitación para los jóvenes.
Global action to improve the recruitment framework of labour migration To reduce abusive practices and violations of human and labour rights during the recruitment process and maximize the protection of migrant workers in the recruitment process and their contribution to development.
Skills for Employment and Productivity The project aims to achieve a better trained and qualified workforce in key industry sectors in order to contribute to decent work, sustainable economic development, poverty reduction, and social inclusion in Bangladesh. In particular, the project aims at: Strengthen inter-project and inter-ministerial coordination, in line with the coordinated programme of support agreed with international development partners through the G20 pilot on human resources development; Strengthen national capacity to coordinate quality assured, demand-driven skills development through extensive capacity building and development of the National Skills Development Council and the Bangladesh Technical Education Board; and Support establishment of a more robust system of sustainable financing for the system, including establishment of a national industry skills development fund and other innovative financing mechanisms.
Child Labour Platform The Child Labour Platform (CLP), a membership-based thematic work stream of the UN Global Compact Human Rights and Labour Working Group, is open to companies committed to contributing to the effective elimination of child labour, as well as to UN agencies, trade unions, business associations and other relevant stakeholders. The CLP will facilitate the exchange of experiences and offer a number of services to its members. By becoming a member of the CLP, the “Party” will benefit from technical assistance from ILO child labour experts in collaboration with the Human Rights and Labour Working Group, as well as other technical units of the International Labour Office. Members will also have access to annual CLP conferences, ad hoc training workshops and meetings, webinars and updates to child labour legislation and policies. These events will also be organized and managed by the ILO. The CLP will also host a members-only website that will contain publications, communities of practice and an events board. The CLP may also form sector and/or theme-based working groups around tailored research or workshops/conferences in relevant countries and sectors, drawing on ILO’s large network of sectoral and child labour expertise, including from other UN agencies.
Renewable Energy Skills Training and Women Economic Development The proposed project has two thematic focuses in the Somali region: renewable energy and women’s economic empowerment. This project seeks to unlock the potential of Somalia’s renewable energy sector. Expanding energy access in the country has the potential to increase the productivity and competitiveness of Somali businesses, contribute to alleviating poverty (both of which could lead to increased investment), improve health and education outcomes, and bolster security. Women’s Economic Empowerment gives women the independence, confidence, and ability to transform their lives. There is a direct correlation between improvements in health, education, peace, and security and the eventual success of women entrepreneurs to catalyse change within their regions, clans, towns, and families. Developing women’s economic empowerment and renewable energy is critical in building wealth, creating jobs, and unleashing the potential for innovation that attracts investment and helps every nation develop.
Ensuring a Gender-responsive approach to Decent Work – Regional Latin America. According to the ILO report Women at Work: Trends 2016, millions of women are losing ground in their quest for equality in the world of work, with significant gender gaps including in employment, pay, job quality, social protection, and with respect to care responsibilities. As highlighted in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, much more needs to be done to ensure decent work for women. In this context, the ILO/Sida Partnership Programme (Phase II, 2016-17) will focus on key policy areas to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment. This work operationalizes the cross-cutting policy driver on gender equality and non-discrimination, leading to results under the Programme and Budget 2016-17. The project will advance the inter-related priorities of the ILO’s Women at Work Centenary Initiative, which represent key aspects of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda 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 to ILO constituents in Cambodia, Cote d’Ivoire, Jordan and in the Inter- American region.