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Joining Forces To Promote Impact Insurance This project brings together the ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility (the Facility) for a 3-year collaboration with the Prudential Foundation to design and deliver insurance innovations to benefit low-income workers, promote market development in select countries, and build capacity at the regional and local levels. Lessons learned through this collaboration will be widely disseminated to highlight approaches in which insurance products and insurance companies make meaningful contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals. Through this collaboration, the Prudential Foundation together with the ILO enable more than one million people to benefit from insurance, while indirectly strengthening the capacity of scores of insurance professionals. This collaboration will also beneit the Prudential, the parent company, through learnings on innovation and change management, building greater agility to respond to respond to the needs of financially excluded and low income households.
Better Work Bangladesh - Design and Beyond Since the 1980s, the Ready-Made Garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh has grown exponentially. The industry is now ranked sixth largest in the world, achieved in a very short time span. The number of export-oriented garment factories has grown from a number of 9 in 1979 to today more than 5,200. In addition to the substantial contribution to the economy, socially it has also been significant, primarily as a source of employment for approximately three and a half million workers, mostly women. When the industry grows in such a rapid manner, there exist significant challenges around a range of labor standards compliance issues. While child labor has diminished in recent years, due to concerted efforts from the government and international community including the ILO, evidence indicates that substantial challenges exist with regards to other core labor standards in law and in practice. In addition, industrial relations, social protection standards, occupational safety, minimum wage enforcement and other labor issues will also need to be addressed urgently. There is rising interest of various stakeholders in seeing a Better Work program operating in the RMG industry in Bangladesh, based on the program’s successful interventions in the industry through establishing a number of country programs worldwide. In response, ILO and IFC carried out a feasibility study to assess whether BW can develop a successful full-fledged project in the Bangladesh RMG industry. The outcomes of the study revealed the country’s economic and political complexity as well as other challenging national circumstances, and warned of a range of operational risks to a potential program. However, the study ultimately concluded in favor of establishing a program there, proposing various options for mitigating the key risks. Better Work management therefore decided to proceed to a participatory design stage but advocated establishing a second decision point following the design stage in light of new information learned and a re-assessment of the situation at that time. The current proposal presents in detail the key objectives, outputs and activities of the participatory design phase (the Design Phase). The main objectives of the Design Phase are: 1). Stakeholders will fully understand the Better Work program, endorse its goals and objectives demonstrate their commitment, and concretize their endorsement by actions. Particular attention will be given to establishing a number of thresholds that various stakeholders would need to commit to as Better Work’s entry criteria; 2). Better Work Bangladesh is designed to meet specific and measurable objectives to improve labor standards and competitiveness in the RMG industry; and 3). The technical ground of program implementation will be established.
Better Factories Cambodia USDOL Revenue Budget A separate revenue project is set up for Better Factories Cambodia to account for revenue generated by the USDOL-funded project, 103756. The fund will then be spent in accordance with USDOL rules and regulations.
Employment for Youth in Egypt (EYE): Working Together in Qalyoubia and Menoufia Youth employment is a major challenge in Egypt. The unemployment rate among youth has reached 31.5 per cent, 23 per cent for young men and 48 per cent for young women. 90 per cent of people unemployed are under the age of 30. However, unemployment is not the only problem in relation to the labour market in Egypt. A central focus of recent Government action and of this proposal is on fostering entrepreneurship among youth. Egypt’s central bank has opened a special credit line of 200 billion LE (20 billion USD) to commercial banks for SME lending. This is a major opportunity for many more young people to enter in business. However, many capable youth carrying good business ideas will not succeed in securing the funding and getting through the start-up phase without technical support and coaching. Only 7% of youth are today self-employed/entrepreneurs, mostly involved in micro/informal businesses. The two Governorates selected for this proposal are particularly symptomatic of the overall national context, with large populations and youth unemployment rates of 33.7 per cent in Qalyoubia and 27.1 per cent in Menoufia in 2015. These areas were also selected based on ILO’s established capacity to operate there. The Danish-funded “Decent Jobs for Egypt’s Young People” was launched in 2013 in these 2 Governorates. It has succeeded in establishing solid relations with the local authorities there. The ILO has become familiar with the needs and capacities in the area, and will be able therefore to build upon the knowledge base acquired, the local capacities developed, and the established cooperation agreements. This will allow the proposed project to meet the projected targets despite the very tight implementation timeline imparted. Two Business Development Service (BDS) units have been created in the Governorates and provide market relevant training. A partnership with the Government is in place to facilitate the creation of 13 small to medium factories in Qalyoubia in the ready-made garments sector to employ 1,625 workers. Entrepreneurship education programmes have been launched at the University of Benha in Qalyoubia and special entrepreneurship training programmes for women are being implemented with the National Council for Women and the Social Fund for Development. This proposed project builds on the lessons learned and partnerships of ILO youth employment programme in Egypt. Some 30M USD have been invested in the past 5 years on job creation initiatives for youth. This has allowed the ILO to build an extensive network of key implementing partners and experts. It has also cemented ILO relations with the Government, in a security and political environment which has become increasingly restrictive for many NGOs and international players to pursue their work.
PHASE II Ending Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) amongst Syrian Refugees and Lebanese Host Communities The project will tackle the WFCL with focus on agriculture and street work, including prevention, withdrawal and programmes for children involved in WFCL, through a multi-sectoral approach involving policy makers, communities, children and families.
2016 Social Protection Through a partnership between the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the International Labour Office (ILO) has developed a series of case studies exploring the link between climate change and social protection policies in several countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, the Philippines and around the Sahel region). Based upon the variety of approaches examined and in line with the ILO’s own Guidelines for a just transition, the partners will develop interventions designed to leverage social protection both i) to protect populations at increased risk of climate-related hardship and ii) to facilitate the “just transition” of national economies toward more sustainable growth models. More information is available at: http://climatechange.social-protection.org
Support to UNICEF Mothers@Work programme UN agency to UN agency contribution agreement from UNICEF to ILO to support salaries and travel costs of 2 Better Work enterprise advisors to implement activities in factories enrolled in the Mothers@Work programme. Key activities include, among other things: • Manage the roll out of the Mothers@Work programme; • Provide enterprise level consultancy services to improve enterprise performance; • Orient other Enterprise Advisor colleagues to assess the implementation of 7 minimum standards in the RMG factories; • Select and adapt and contextualise Better Work and Mothers@Work products for use at the individual enterprise level based on needs; • Provide technical advice and input into the development of BW and M@W research, products and strategies; • Support factories to develop functioning Participation and Safety Committees and to develop their self-improvement plan; • Support capacity building of enterprises to implement Mothers@Work; • Facilitate Mother at Work enrolment seminars as well as advocacy meetings and workshops with international brands; • Collaborate with the technical support consortium team (TSC); • Etc.
Promoting Financial Literacy among Vulnerable Populations in Egypt The proposed project will work jointly with several partners in order to train and certify at least 10 trainers in Egypt to use the ILO’s Financial Education tools and proceed with a national rollout of the training. This intervention builds on the successful results of the project ¨Improving the Governance of Labour Migration and the Protection of Migrant Workers´ Rights in Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Egypt¨ (IRAM for short), through the adaptation of materials adapted for use in Tunisia and Morocco to the Egyptian context. Building on this experience, and in line with the importance given to financial education in the Action Plan on Institutional Strengthening in the Area of Labour Migration, another important IRAM output in Egypt, ILO is planning the certification process for use with migrants, potential migrants, returnees, and other vulnerable groups such as refugees.
Actuarial Technical Assistance for Health Cover in Pakistan This five month partnership betweem the ILO’s impact insurance Facility (the Facility) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, through its bilateral project “Support toSocial Protection incl. Social Health Protection (SP-SHP)”, provides actuarial technical assistance and the identification of opportunities to build health actuarial capacity within Pakistan. This project promotes peer learning and capacity building through the Facility’s wider community of practitioners in order to share lessons learnt on this in close consultation and cooperation with GIZ in the country of assignment (Pakistan) as well as through other forms and mechanisms of learning and exchange. Lessons address processes, namely providing best practice guidelines for others approaching similar actuarial tasks in a developing context where data may not be available or insufficient.
Strengthening the political and institutional environment for employment creation 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 fits within the first priority of the Decent Work Country Programme for Comoros (2015-2019) on “Employment promotion and governance”. The intervention will be implemented in the three most vulnerable municipalities on the islands of Mohéli, Anjouan and Ngazidza. The project will enhance the institutional capacity of local partners, including the tripartite constituents, to develop employment programmes for young women and men in vulnerable situations, considering gender equality and the principle of non-discrimination. Pilot action programmes using employment-intensive investment approaches in public infrastructure will be implemented with a view to demonstrating the relevance and effectiveness of this methodology for local development and youth employment. The project will also promote the establishment of new businesses on social and environmental services that can create green jobs as a complement to employment-intensive infrastructure programmes. This project contributes to the country’s efforts to advance towards the attainment of SDG target 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).
Capacity building of social partners to combat child labour in Egypt This project aims at strengthening the capacity of the Egyptian government, workers and employers' organizations to combat child labour. The draft National Action Plan (NAP) to combat child labour will be updated and validated by the tripartite Steering Committee. An upgraded apprenticeship system for working-age girls and boys will be tested in three sectors (ready-made garments, carpentry, and food-processing). The ILO-IOE Child Labour Guidance Tool for Business will be translated into Arabic and used to sensitize employers and other partners on how to do business that does not involve child labourers. Tools and training materials will be adapted for application and use by labour inspectors and NGOs working with ILO constituents. Emphasis will also be placed on sharing good practices to improve occupational safety and health and working conditions for working-age girls and boys in hazardous work.
Workshop on role of insurance for an integrated climate and disaster risk management 5 November 2018. The GIZ and ILO join forces to showcase the activities being done in the area of climate risk insurance and disaster management and highlight the lessons being learned from these activities through a full day workshop with different partners and diverse stakeholders interested in the topic. This workshop is a pre-conference workshop to the 14th Microinsurance Conference in Lusaka, Zambia. Through sessions focused on topics such as exploring the link between insurance solutions for SMEs and employment growth, importance of group policies the workshop and role for contract farming, the workshop addresses the success factors and challenges in building resilience in vulnerable communities and enterprises.
Support the operationalization of the newly created SME Unit of the Federation of Egyptian Industries by developing their capacity to analyse and address business environment challenges for MSMEs The overall objective of the proposed action is to create a more enabling environment for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Egypt - including those owned by women and youth. The specific objectives are to capacitate the SME Unit within the Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI) to: 1. Identify its mandate, market niche, delivery modality and relevant services for MSMEs; 2. Engage in evidence-based policy dialogue and advocacy for MSMEs; 3. Facilitate access to relevant business development services for MSMEs. The Theory of Change underlying the action is that a more enabling business environment for MSMEs will be created through a strengthened voice of MSMEs to influence policy making. In order to effectively advocate for the interests of MSMEs, employers’ organisations such as the FEI must therefore strengthen these enterprises and their representative bodies through advocacy and improved service delivery. This implies that the FEI’s SME Unit must build its in-house capacity to deliver or facilitate services to these enterprises and their representative bodies, as well as build its internal capacity to identify and formulate reform proposals which are based on solid research. The latter requires that the Unit strengthens its capacity to conduct assessments and to develop reform proposals. The expected results of the action are as follows: The SME Unit within the FEI is better able to: - Formulate evidence-based policy reform proposals on behalf of MSMEs; - Deliver relevant business development services (BDS) to MSMEs owned by women and men; - Facilitate access to relevant services for MSMEs through FEI’s affiliated business chambers. MSMEs: - Have increased their voice and representation at national fora; - Have improved access to relevant services offered by the FEI SME Unit and its affiliate business chambers. Government: - Has strengthened its dialogue with private sector counterparts based on more evidence-based advocacy. The FEI has been selected as the main beneficiary of this action. It is the ILO employer constituent and umbrella representative of the private sector and business chambers in the country. The FEI has therefore a clear mandate to advocate on behalf of its members for policy reforms towards a more conducive business environment for MSMEs in Egypt. As part of an ambitious reform program, the Federation has recently created a new SME Unit, and has appointed a manager. The objective of the FEI’s SME Unit is to expand its relevance and services to small enterprises, as historically the FEI’s membership and services have been directed mainly towards larger enterprises. This includes both a stronger engagement on policy making for MSME-friendly reforms and the delivery of demand-driven services that are tailored to the needs of this target group. Building on the excellent cooperation with the ILO, the FEI requested the ILO to support the further operationalization of this newly created unit.
Tecnical support on sustainable enterprises in Guyana This project aims at strengthening capacity for enterprise development in Guyana. It will address the issue of limited investment, output and productivity and the resulting low labour demand by enhancing the conditions for increased enterprise profitability and job creation potential, focussing on (i) the enabling environment for sustainable enterprises, (ii) the capacity to provide support for micro, small and medium enterprises with a view to facilitating their transition to formality, and (iii) the labour and total factor productivity. Interventions will build on an assessment of the enabling environment and barriers to formalization and on profiling of business establishments and jobs in the informal economy, and will include the establishment of a tripartite body in charge of productivity enhancement measures, capacity building for labour officers to address informality in micro and small enterprises, the promotion of cooperatives for domestic workers, and awareness campaigns on the benefits of transition to formality. Work under this project will contribute to the achievement of SDGs 4 and 8.
Strengthened knowledge and capacity of constituents to promote equal pay and reduce gender pay gaps, including through partnerships (EPIC). This Global Product aims to contribute to the universal ratification of the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) and its application by member States, to progress towards the achievement of SDG target 8.5, that also includes equal pay between women and men for work of equal value. Recognized as a fundamental right, equal pay for work of equal value means that equally qualified women and men should get equal pay when they perform the same or a similar job in equivalent conditions. It also covers situations where women and men do different work of equal value. When women and men carry out work that differs in content, involves different responsibilities and demands different skills or qualifications, and is performed under different conditions, but is overall of equal value, they should be paid equally. Without equal pay, women’s time, talent and contributions to society will continue to be undervalued, and the achievement of gender equality at work will remain illusory.
Enhanced employability of men and women through improved skills development and public employment services Low unemployment rates for young women and men in Cambodia hide the fact that most have to accept any work that is available, often in informality, poor working conditions and working poverty. Their options are limited by lack of access to jobs and employment counselling services, lack of access to labour market data, poor coordination between technical vocational education and training systems across all educational streams, limited involvement of employers and trade unions in TVET, weakness in coordination and governance in TVET system, inadequacy of skills and dysfunctional skills recognition systems, and lack of relevant and quality training responsive to the demand of the labour market. The lack of decent work opportunities in Cambodia, coupled with a demographic bulge in working age population and higher wages on offer in regional destination countries, drives a significant number of young people to migrate for work. The jobs that many young Cambodian workers take up in destination countries are often low-skilled and characterized by informality, including risky sectors for both women and men (such as fishing and domestic work) leaving these young people vulnerable to abuse, exploitation and forced labour. The lack of skills recognition and proper job matching means that on return, young workers are often still unable to access decent jobs in spite of their work experience. At the same time, young workers who seek better employment abroad are often characterized as having low level of skills and with inadequate social protection coverage. The project will build on a series of interventions on youth employment which the ILO has undertaken in recent years. It will build on the ILO-SIDA partnership 2016-2018 KHM/16/52/SWE which supported the implementation of the National Employment Policy by addressing the skills mismatch and reducing discrimination at work, as well as the UN Joint programme on youth employment led by the ILO since September 2017 – KHM/17/50/CHE, in which five UN agencies partner to address the challenges of skills, entrepreneurship and rights at work for young people.
Increasing Uptake of HIV Testing Services among Men through Workplace Interventions According to UNAIDS Blind Spot report, 2017, men are less likely to take a HIV test, less likely to access antiretroviral therapy and more likely to die of AIDS-related illnesses than women. The report further shows that men are more likely than women to start treatment late, to interrupt treatment and to be lost to treatment follow-up. Kenya HIV estimates, 2015, indicate that Kenya has an estimated 71,034 new HIV infections among adults and about 6,613 new infections among children annually which is unacceptably high with men less likely to know their HIV status as per the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, 2014. The project will determine vulnerabilities faced by men in two counties and advocate for and build partnerships to increase uptake of HIV testing services to workers in selected vulnerable, male dominated sectors. The VCT@WORK approach has proved successful in reaching men and this project will expand on the initiative targeting male dominated sectors in two counties. The sectors will include transport – public transporters (matatus, tuktuks, bodabodas) and long distance truck drivers, construction, manufacturing, small traders and the motor industry.