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More and better jobs for inclusive growth and improved youth employment prospects: Delivering global products for Outcome 1 under the SIDA-ILO Partnership programme This new ILO/Sida Global Product will support the overall Outcome 1 strategy and will build on the work of previous biennia. In this area, support is focused on youth employment, employment diagnostics and Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification. For this first phase of the partnership, the strategy is premised on the need for a comprehensive approach, including sound labour market analysis, coordinated demand and supply side measures, tripartite consultations and social dialogue, with emphasis on clear mechanisms for policy implementation, monitoring and evaluation – coupled with targeted actions to address the youth employment crisis through a balanced approach of activation policies and protection of the rights of young women and men, as well as generating income perspectives for those that have fewer opportunities in the labour market. Tackling the needs of the working poor is an intrinsic part of the overall effort to address global poverty as reflected in the 2030 Agenda. The new partnership would focus more on enabling the global capacity of constituents (and the Organization) to achieve improved youth employment prospects and more and better jobs for inclusive growth for all. In this Phase, ILO will develop notably diagnostic and policy analysis tools and contribute to finalize national employment policy implementation guidelines. The intervention will also enhance the global and national capacity for rolling out and sustaining the Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification methodology as a way to anticipate skills demand in sectors with high potential for jobs growth. The interventions will be planned and implemented in an integrated and mutually reinforcing way across the policy cycle and in selected countries. The STED work supported by SIDA in last three years demonstrated the importance of focusing on delivering systemic change through capacity development, collaboration and knowledge sharing with STED partners, and mainstreaming activities. This work will contribute to further conceptual development and new knowledge generation in the ILO’s approach to trade and skills; the global coordination and technical backstopping function will further develop the capacity of ILO staff and partners to undertake this work at country level, focusing on supporting the implementation of recommendations from STED analytic work, particularly through scalable measures that will benefit productivity of firms, improve export performance, target youth, women and support poverty reduction. Focus of interventions: - Strengthening employment policy diagnostic and implementation - Targeted policies and programmes on youth employment, with focus on vulnerable youth - Sectoral focus for skills anticipation through the strengthening of the STED programme
Building a Generation of Safe and Healthy Workers: Safe & Healthy Youth_Phase 1 The purpose of this Cooperative Agreement is to increase the capacity of countries to address occupational safety and health, with particular attention to addressing those safety and health issues that affect working youth. The project will combine global, regional, and country-specific interventions that focus on improving relevant policy and legislation and strengthening enforcement efforts; increasing knowledge and dialogue on safety and health issues; and contributing to the sustainability of impact. A special focus of the project will be on protecting young workers by improving their access to information, education and training about occupational safety and health. The project will develop pilot programs in two to three countries where an OSH strategy could be successfully implemented to target high-risk sectors for youth, such as mining, construction and agriculture, and to improve workplace safety and health. These pilot countries will serve as models for replication in other countries and/or regions. In addition, the project will establish the foundation for and provide support to a new ILO global flagship initiative to improve safety and health at work.
Enhancing Rural Access Agro-Forestry ("ERA Agro-Forestry"): Improving access to agro-forestry areas #N/B
National Strategy for Employment Durante el primer año de implementación de la Estrategia Nacional de Empleo, la metodología de trabajo seguida básicamente se basó en el establecimiento de tres niveles de acción: uno compuesto por las actividades cuyo planeamiento y desarrollo dependen fundamentalmente del sector público y, por otro lado, la generación de dos espacios de trabajo con los sectores empleador y trabajador. En el caso del sector público, merece la pena señalar que en el documento de la Estrategia se recogen todos los planes, programas y proyectos que desde las instituciones del Poder Ejecutivo se impulsarían para generar empleo y mejorar el desarrollo productivo. En este sentido, mucho del apoyo planteado y efectuado por la OIT se ha dirigido a la mejora de mecanismos de planificación, seguimiento y evaluación a nivel institucional, pero también se ha dado especial atención a la instalación de mecanismos para una efectiva formulación y ejecución de políticas públicas y para lograr un trabajo interinstitucional coordinado.
ARISE II: Global Training Programme This addendum extends the partnership between JT International SA and the ILO for a further 4 years, until 31 December 2018, to cover additional activities under the global component of the project, as well as under country specific actions in Brazil, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania. The project title is amended to include “ARISE II: Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco growing Communities in Brazil, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia”. JTI will provide a new contribution of US$4’773’917 for the period 2015-2018. The partnership focuses on advancing the agenda to effectively eliminate child labour in farming communities from which JTI sources tobacco. It will draw on the lesson learned in the first phase to consolidate the gains achieved and pursue opportunities to increase the scope and impact of the PPP. A global component to the strategy, the Global Training Programme (GTP) will support JTI’s efforts to promote sustainability in its supply chain, particularly the Agricultural Labour Practices (ALP) and Know Your Grower (KYG) programmes, through risk assessments and improvements in occupational safety and health (OSH). The proposed project will contribute to Outcome 16 of the ILO’s Programme and Budget, “Child labour is elimininated, with priority given to its worst forms”, by reducing the incidence of child labour in target countries and communities; strengthening capacity of ILO constituents, including through policy development and improved delivery of social services, to address the problem; and strengthening the capacity of JTI to prevent, identify, mitigate and remediate child labour in its supply chain. This is in support of the Decent Work Country Programmes of Brazil, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia and related Country Programme Outcomes (BRA 126, MWI 103, TZA 125, TZA 126, ZMB 176).
Supporting implementation of labour law reform in Vietnam and Myanmar. The project proposal is developed based on on-going discussions with tripartite constituents as to the development aspirations and the needs in terms of OSH in Myanmar and employment promotion in Viet Nam, respectively. As noted above, the project builds on both bilateral and multilateral assistance in the area of labour law reform which requires regional coordination both in terms of provision of technical expertise and regional knowledge and feedback from the country level for wider policy and methodological discussions and strategy development. Moreover the project requires coordination with other regional initiatives, such as technical and policy support work of the ILO to the ASEAN integration process, thus ensuring cross-country policy coherence. The project is therefore situated above a country level approach and while the country-level interventions are in different technical areas, the synergetic effects of a regional combined approach need to be harnessed via a regional management structure linking back into the Decent Work Team resources and expertise. A similar regional approach has been successfully applied to other technical areas such as ILO work on social protection. Part 1: Supporting the improvement of the legal and institutional framework on occupational safety and health in Myanmar This project aims to contribute to better, safer and healthier working conditions in Myanmar through a three-tiered approach that will support an enabling institutional and legal framework, which is in line with international standards, strengthen the capacity of institutions to promote OSH and conduct OSH/labour inspection and improve the data collection and analysis of occupational accidents and diseases. Part 2: Support to VIET NAM’s Public Employment Policy (from Policy to Implementation) The proposed project will focus on helping the country to further develop and implement its public employment policy. It is understood however that a PEP will be more effective if it is part of a policy mix. Vocational training and public employment services for example are supported under other regional ILO partnerships (Korea and Japan). The project will contribute to a process of consultation with Vietnamese experts working in these areas to ensure synergy and complementarity of interventions.
Applying the G20 Training Strategy (Vietnam) 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 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. The first phase of the Project, completed in 2016, was designed to strengthen Skills Development systems, develop and test tools, and facilitate knowledge-sharing on Human Resources Development (HRD) issues. The second phase continues to contribute to meeting the Russian government’s commitment to the G20 Development Working Group on HRD, aims to strengthen further the skills and employability development systems and to address the priorities identified in consultation with the key stakeholders in each of the Project Countries.
International Labour and Environmental Standards Application in Pakistan's SMEs (ILES)' Pakistan has ratified a number of international UN and other conventions including 36 Conventions of ILO. Effective implementation and consistent reporting on these Conventions creates opportunities for the country in terms of its suitability to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade. However, the performance and global image of Pakistan's compliance with international labour and environmental standards (ILES) are far from optimal. In order to address this, the proposed project will implement comprehensive interventions at macro (policy level), meso (institutional level), micro (enterprise level) and meta-levels (knowledge creation). At micro-level, the project will focus on Textile and Leather sectors. Pakistani manufactures in textile and leather are important economic development drivers. However, their contribution to the broader country development as well as future competitiveness will be defined by the capacity of the public and private sectors to appropriately implement ILES. The programme addresses these issues over a period of 6 years. ILO partners with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to cover the environmental component of project.
Contribution to the Vision Zero Fund-Global Component The G7 Heads of State and Ministers for Development and Employment called for concrete action in low-income sourcing countries to prevent work place-related deaths and severe injuries and diseases in Global Supply Chains (GSCs), as well as adequate compensation mechanisms in case of such contingencies. It was decided that this was to be achieved through the establishment of the multi-donor Vision Zero Fund (VZF) that will work to reduce the number of work-related fatalities and accidents and occupational diseases in selected developing countries, in sectors that link to GSCs, as well as adequately compensating victims and their families in case of such accidents. The ILO was selected to administer the Fund and implement its sectoral projects in selected partner countries. This Action will contribute to the implementation of the VZF, with one priority focus on the textile/garment sector, in line with the EU work on responsible supply chains and the EU Garment Initiative. This Action pursues its mandate through the objectives below. Overall Objective: The number of work-related fatalities and accidents and occupational diseases is reduced, and mechanisms to adequately compensate victims and their families in GSCs in selected countries are in place. The Specific Objectives of the Action are: Public and private sector stakeholders have improved knowledge and tools to prevent and reduce workplace-related deaths, injuries and diseases in GSCs; More workers have access to improved prevention, protection and compensation from OSH risks through adequate policy frameworks, strengthened enforcement capacity and effective occupational health and compensation mechanisms; Sustainable safe and healthy working conditions and practices at industry and enterprises level are reinforced.
Advancing the Decent Work Agenda in North Africa (ADWA') The project strategy builds on an analysis of the key stakeholders and the change agents that need to be effectively engaged with, to achieve the expected results. Decent work is a multidimensional reality that requires the active involvement of a range of actors. It is an economic as much as a social and a rights-based challenge; it needs to involve a range of public authorities, social partners and NGOs. The project will accompany the Governments and the social and economic actors in North Africa in their path towards the implementation of the Decent Work Agenda, working on the front of improving the enabling environment for the creation of decent and sustainable jobs and on the ILS, social and labour rights front. It will also support the Governments in fulfilling their obligations towards the realization of the SGDs (in particular the SDG 8), the objectives of their national development strategies and the sectoral strategies.
Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) phase III - Colombia The ILO SCORE Programme is assisting governments, industry associations and trade unions in Africa, Asia and Latin America to develop export and domestic industrial sectors, with a particular focus on competitiveness and decent work in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Its main intervention is SCORE Training, a practical training and in-factory consulting programme that improves productivity and working conditions in SMEs and helps them to participate in global supply chains. Phase III is focusing on embedding SCORE Training in programmes and budgets of implementation partners and lead buyers using SCORE Training to develop their SME suppliers. The programme will operate in China, Indonesia, India, Viet Nam, Myanmar, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia with financial support from the Governments of Switzerland (SECO) and Norway (NORAD).
Inclusive growth, social protection and jobs The programme focuses on the two areas of social protection and employment through public investment. The goal is that national governments use appropriate, well designed and well managed social protection measures and employment promoting approaches to the delivery of public investments in order to promote resilience, access to services and employment opportunities for poor and vulnerable people, contributing to Inclusive Economic Growth. The Irish Aid-ILO programme contributes to the Programme & Budget 2016-2017 Outcome 3 and also to ILO’s Flagship programme on building social protection floors for all, which provides a coherent framework for ILO’s support to the implementation of social protection floors following as step-by-step approach in 21 countries. The Irish Aid Social Protection Strategy has identified six strategic priorities which need to be in place for social protection programmes to have maximum impact: 1. A strong and context specific evidence base on the delivery and impact of social protection; 2. A well informed political and public debate on social protection; 3. Institutional capacity for the core functions of effectively and efficiently delivering social protection transfers; 4. A comprehensive national social protection policy and a prioritised implementation plan; 5. A sustainable and progressively domestically funded social protection financing framework; 6. A supportive framework of policies and programmes across economic and social sectors that address the needs of social protection recipients.
Employment diagnostics analysis - Uganda (EDA-U) Analysis of the key labour market statistics documented by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics show that total population, total labour force, total employment and total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) have been growing over the years but at varying rates. With the economy rebasing in 2014, GDP expanded by 17.3 percent at 2009/10 market prices. Uganda’s economy has been relatively stable over the last twenty years within the context of several macro-economic reforms starting with the structural adjustment programs in early 1990s. However, these reforms have not created enough decent and productive jobs to absorb and keep up with a high population growth rate. Empirical evidence shows that for every one percent point increase in GDP, the economy has created less than a percent point in jobs (0.04). Hence, in an economy with excess labour supply, this result is a yardstick of ‘jobless growth’ and hence a potential cause of rising unemployment. It is against this background that an Employment Diagnostic Analysis (EDA) is proposed. This EDA process will involve the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD), as the host but will have a National Steering Committee (NSC) composed of ILO tripartite constituents, relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA’s), academia, civil society and the private sector who will play an oversight. This EDA will provide information support to the Labour Advisory Board (LAB) which is a statutory body whose key mandate is employment policy advice to government under the leadership of MGLSD. The MGLSD will provide overall oversight to the governance structure that will guide the process. The development objective of this EDA is to generate stakeholder understanding on job-rich inclusive economic growth and just structural transformation. It is important to note that structural information is explicitly acknowledged as a process that unfolds through deep-rooted and far-reaching interaction between different economic sectors. The EDA thus will incorporate a holistic approach that explores inter-sectoral relations, up- and downward linkages and dynamic spill-over effects. Acknowledging these complex relations, the proposed EDA specifically will help to; 1. Generate a holistic conceptual understanding on options for job-rich and inclusive economic growth and structural transformation 2. Secure participation and ownership of national policy makers and stakeholders in the EDA 3. Identify sectors and inter-sectoral linkages of strategic importance for job-rich growth and investment 4. Produce a comprehensive Employment Analysis for Uganda
Better Work Programme II for Bangladesh By June 2019, Better Work Bangladesh (BWB) aims to work in 450 factories, employing approximately 400,000 workers, out of which 80% are female. BWB expects to meet the following objectives: 1. Roll out of BW’s newly revised factory services to target factories. The focus will be on ensuring high level of factory participation and strong quality of management of services. 2. In collaboration with ILO’s wider RMG sector programme, maximise BWB’s long term impact on the effectiveness of national institutions to promote compliance in factories where the programme does not operate, for example, supporting the training of labour inspectors and ensuring synergies in implementation. 3. Develop a strategy to increase the long term viability of the programme with the focus on building capacity and leadership of national staff and improving the cost recovery from the programme through private sector revenues.
The Better Work Academy: Building the Bridges Between the Public and Private Sectors Better Work, a partnership between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has proven that it is possible to simultaneously improving working conditions and boost competitiveness in the global apparel sector. As part of The Walt Disney International Labour Standards Supply Chain Investment Programme, Better Work is proposing to add a Public Sector Department to the Better Work Academy. To date, the Better Work Academy has taken a pioneering approach to develop and implement a global forum for learning among private sector actors to support behavioural and attitudinal change. The Academy aims to drive improvements across brands’ supply chains, not only in existing Better Work country programmes but also in other countries and industries. Through this project, Better Work will expand the Academy to include the public sector. Efforts to improve working conditions in global supply chains have largely been driven to date by the private sector, with little attention paid to involvement and long-term capacity development of the public sector. While private sector initiatives have had impact, the only way to drive long term sustainable change is by focusing on how to better equip national actors to oversee their own labour markets and by creating shared learning opportunities between brands and public sector actors. Better Work is uniquely placed to bring together the private and public sectors to fundamentally change the dynamics in the field of labour compliance, moving away from brands running parallel compliance systems and moving toward a model whereby the national actors are increasingly able to take on ownership for compliance in their countries.
Agenda de fomento y calidad del empleo fase III El objetivos del proyecto es contribuir a promover el Año del Trabajo Decente en la Región del Maule mediante una serie de acciones que se inscriben en la iniciativa acerca del futuro del trabajo que promueve la OIT y la Estrategia Regional de Desarrollo. Los objetivos específicos son: 1. Situar a la Región del Maule como una Región líder en la promoción del trabajo decente en el país mediante la realización de un conjunto de actividades destinadas a conocer las ventajas de instalar el enfoque sobre mejores relaciones laborales en el mundo del trabajo. 2. Fortalecer la institucionalidad laboral y mejorar la gestión de los actores del mundo del trabajo para el mejor desempeño de su papel. 3. Diseñar una plataforma de diálogo social y laboral en un escenario de transformaciones con la participación de actores fundamentales de la Región del Maule 4. Generar discusiones sobre asuntos de interés nacional, gremial y regional y debates bi partitos que enriquezcan el diálogo social en la Región.
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.