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Strengthening the role of financial institutions for micro-insurance development in Africa. This project seeks solutions to overcome remaining barriers in microinsurance delivery by African MFIs through stimulating innovation for selected advanced MFI (innovation laboratory) and providing capacity building to the microfinance industry in selected countries.The Financial Institution Innovation Laboratory implements action research interventions with eight MFIs or banks to generate credible insights to improve insurance services, leading to improved value for MFIs’ core business and also for their clients. Key learning objectives are designed collectively by the selected innovation lab partners; preliminary research suggests the following areas of interest: 1. Improving ability of MFIs to assess client risks, and design appropriate insurance products (focus on market segmentation) in relation to other formal and informal financial services 2. Using technology to make enrolment and claims processes more accessible and to reduce operating costs 3. Developing health insurance products that extend or supplement existing social protection schemes 4. Developing meso-level insurance products that benefit small-scale farmers and improve financial institutions’ risk management abilities. The results from the different action research projects will be disseminated to a broader audience using the Facility’s knowledge tools (briefs, trainings, bite-sized lessons, webinars etc.). Performance will be assessed from both the client and institution perspectives. o The project will support training of financial institutions to improve organizational capacity to deliver microinsurance as well as disseminate new lessons to governments and other relevant stakeholders to influence their policies with regards how insurance can be used to achieve public policy objectives.
Technical advisory services for the ninth Actuarial Review of the Social Security Corporation and the strengthening and extension of social security programmes in Jordan The project will mainly focus on the delivery of the ninth Actuarial Review of the social security schemes administered by the SSC, as at 31 December 2016. This follows previous Funds-in-Trust Projects concluded between the ILO and the SSC, and in particular the most recent four-year project of the ILO with the SSC that led to the seventh Actuarial Review of the SSC schemes, as at 31 December 2010, and the eighth Actuarial Review of the SSC schemes, as at 31 December 2013. Under this project, the ILO carried out in addition a series of technical reports on the costing of various reform proposals for the purpose of extending social security programmes under the umbrella of SSC (maternity, unemployment, voluntary second tier pensions, and health care). These ILO technical reports were delivered in support of informed policy decision making of tripartite Jordanian stakeholders, which led to the adoption of the New Social Security Law No. 1 of the Year 2014 –governing the SSC –by Parliament in January 2014.
ILO’s follow-up to Cambodia’s National Employment Policy 2015-17, targeting youth employment. Development Objective: To create enabling conditions for decent and productive employment and to prepare young people for the world of work. Immediate objective 1: Strengthening institutional mechanisms for leadership, coordination and implementation of policies This objective aims to support setting up of an inter-ministerial coordination mechanism including social partners, to strengthen the organizational and technical capacity of the members of such inter-ministerial committee, to strengthen the capacity of the MoLVT to act as a secretariat of such committee, and to support implementation of NEP. The time-bound implementation plan will need to contain monitoring indicators and targets that will also contribute to monitoring progress on SDGs related to decent work. Immediate objective 2: Supporting young women and men with access to quality education and technical/vocational skills training This objective is geared towards offering the quality and relevant education and formal technical/vocational skills programmes, including through workplace-based training programmes such as apprenticeships and internships, entrepreneurship as well as training on core/soft skills, life skills and employment and vocational counselling and guidance. This will be accomplished in partnering with the relevant ministries such as the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MoLVT). The project will ensure a gender focus with strengthened partnerships with the industry sector and skills standards development. Immediate objective 3: Protecting young women and men from the risk of abuse and discrimination at work Securing decent jobs entails securing young people’s participation at the policy level, including at the local level, where rights at work are observed and understood by both workers and employers; and promoting a working environment whereby young people are free to organize, are listened to and are valued equally. This component will seek to re-enforce the rights of young people at work while protecting them from abuse, discrimination and other risks.
Sustaining GSP-Plus Status by strengthened national capacities to improve ILS compliance and reporting - GLOBAL The present Action aims at promoting the application of fundamental ILO conventions in the following ILO member states beneficiaries of the EU preferential trade scheme GSP+: El Salvador, Guatemala, Mongolia and Pakistan. The selected countries will be assisted to take action to apply these fundamental Conventions and meet their standards-related obligations, in particular in response to issues raised by the supervisory bodies and reported in the GSP+ Scorecards. They will also be assisted to enable them to fulfil their ILO Constitutional reporting obligations on these conventions. Organisation/ implementation: The strategy will be to act on several fronts in the selected countries with the aim of achieving closer compliance with reporting obligations and/or ratified fundamental Conventions. In each country, selected key actors likely to bring about positive change where standards are concerned will be given technical assistance, training and will be made aware of the issues. These actors will be members of the national administration, representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations, judges and parliamentarians. The intervention in building the capacities on fundamental international labour standards will use a mix of approaches, focussing mainly on institutional development. Activities could include: ¿ Awareness-raising and training on the content of selected fundamental ILS. ¿ Research to generate information on the status of implementation of ILS, including legislative gap analyses, advice on elements that will enable tripartite constituents to take the relevant decisions aiming at full implementation. ¿ Legal advice on the revision or drafting of legislation and regulations in the light of the supervisory bodies’ comments. ¿ Strengthening of data collection and reporting capacity of tripartite constituents including the capacity of using the systemic approach to managing ILS constitutional obligations. ¿ Publication/adaptation of thematic materials on the implementation of the concerned ILS.
Promoting social inclusion of persons with disabilities in Ethiopia The ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2010 provides a good momentum in Ethiopia to foster its implementation in collaboration with national stakeholders, who previously advocated for the ratification of the Convention and who have been involved recently in the preparation of the National Plan of Action of Persons with Disabilities (2012-2021). As the result of consultations between the One UN (RCO) office, ILO and OHCHR in the context of the UNCT Governance and Human Rights Technical Working Group, as well as current partnerships with national institutions working on the protection and the promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities, the Programme proposal intends to address institutional gaps and negative social environments limiting the access of persons with disabilities to participate fully in the life of their communities. Three categories of national institutions have joined efforts with the One UN/RCO office, ILO and OHCHR in the context of the UNPRPD; the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, the Ethiopian Institution of the Ombudsman and three Disabled Persons Organizations under the leadership of the Ethiopian Federation of National Associations of Persons with Disabilities. The ILO, OHCHR and One UN/RCO office proposed Programme takes hold of this positive context of inter-institutional collaboration in Ethiopia, and suggests two main areas of intervention; (i) improve knowledge and technical capacity of authorities across the country on delivering better services to persons with disabilities and (ii) fight social discrimination against persons with disabilities through awareness raising activities by national stakeholders.
Reducing Worst Forms of Child Labour amoung Children Affected by the Crisis in Syria The conflict in Syria has generated an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Over half of the country’s population has been displaced and millions of people have fallen into poverty. Children are especially affected and many have been forced into hazardous forms of child labour. The project addresses this issue through three interrelated strategies: 1) direct provision of services to children engaged in or at risk of engaging in the worst forms of child labour, including children formally associated with armed groups (joint initiative with UNICEF in selected locations of Damascus and Homs); 2) capacity building of labour inspectors, social workers, school counsellors, workers’ and employers’ organizations, NGOs and other frontline service providers to address child labour situations; and 3) strengthening of the technical and vocational education and training system as a longer term approach to skills development aimed at adolescents and older children.
Change Management to achieve impact with insurance - Phase II The ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility and Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSDA) are launching a new partnership to support insurers to provide valuable and scalable insurance solutions to low-income households and SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through this partnership with FSDA, the ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility will work with five leading insurers and distribution channels distributors and provide technical assistance for product innovation and organisational change management. A preliminary list of interventions includes: - Spur innovation, build capacity and identify and implement the necessary organizational changes -Work with providers to scale the innovations quickly to achieve sustainability, while gradually improving customer and shareholder value. - Develop change management tools and demonstration cases that can be shared with the broader industry to facilitate the generation of innovative insurance solutions for the low-income market.
Technical support on labour conditions in the informal economy This project aims at supporting the development of new strategies to reduce informality, unregistered employment and job insecurity and to generate conditions conducive to the development of sustainable enterprises in Argentina. Labour informality is one of the main decent work deficits in Argentina. In 2014 a new law (number 26940) was approved, including incentives for formalization, sanctions, and instruments for better detection of infringement cases. The ILO's strategy is to strengthen, sensitize and provide technical assistance to the social partners so that they can discuss and implement new policy measures to formalize the informal economy, in line with the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204). Interventions will focus on : 1) revision, redesign and strengthening of the inspection policies of provincial and local governments; 2) awareness-raising activities with social partners, including tripartite dialogues in the “informal economy seminars”; 3) elaboration of diagnoses on critical sectors with high informality (domestic workers, trade, self-employed workers, brick workers); and 4) technical assistance to revise and adopt new policy instruments and regulations that may facilitate formalization in critical sectors.
Strengthening Social Dialogue in Select Countries to Combat Hazardous Child Labour in Tobacco Growing - Uganda Uganda tripartite meeting (proposed fourth quarter 2015): Similarly, in Uganda the project also will provide facilitation and technical support and build capacity for a tripartite meeting on child labour in tobacco growing, and will draft the outcome document. The project may be able to support the development of new child labour policy in the context of these meetings. This will be determined during consultations in the target countries about the detailed strategy of the project. In Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania, in particular through support for the major meetings to be held during 2015, the project will enhance the capacity of local, district and national governments and social partners, including in the tobacco sector and in key tobacco growing districts, to be central actors in the development and delivery of integrated policies to combat child labour.
Promotion of Decent and Productive Employment Opportunity for ethnic women and vulnerable groups including people with disabilities in Lao PDR The Project seeks sustained improvement in the quality of life of rural population, particularly ethnic women, people with disabilities and women who care for family members with disabilities. It will be implemented in selected poor districts of Sekong and Savannakhet provinces of Lao PDR.
Projet d’appui de la France au Programme mondial pour les socles de protection sociale du BIT Le projet d’appui de la France au Programme mondial pour les socles de protection sociale (SPS) du BIT se concentre sur trois axes de la Campagne mondiale pour les SPS: La participation des socles de protection sociale à la transition de l’économie informelle vers l’économie formelle; L’inclusion de la protection sociale et en particulier des socles dans la lutte contre le changement climatique et ses effets; et La promotion du rôle du secteur privé dans la définition et la mise en œuvre de socles de protection sociale nationaux. Sur chacun de ces axes, le présent projet suit la structure générale de la Campagne, à savoir, le développement des connaissances, le partage de ces connaissances acquises, la sensibilisation et l’éducation au besoin de protection sociale, et finalement la mise en place de partenariats pour démultiplier l’impact du projet. Le présent projet contribuera à atteindre les Objectifs du développement durable (ODD). Sa mise en place s’appuiera et bénéficiera des synergies offertes par la complémentarité entre les différentes agences onusiennes; elle s’appuiera aussi sur le concours des représentants des partenaires sociaux et de la société civile. Au terme de ce projet, le droit à la protection sociale sera une réalité pour plus de personnes, et le rôle de la protection sociale en matière de développement durable et responsable sera mieux documenté.
Promoting Decent Work Opportunities for Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian Youth in Kosovo The living conditions for members of minority groups in Kosovo, and especially for Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian (RAE) men and women, are particularly challenging. Large numbers of RAE live in poor housing conditions, have little access to healthcare, education and decent work, and face direct or indirect discrimination on a regular basis. Many members of the RAE communities are either excluded from the labour force, self-excluded or discouraged. For RAE youth in Kosovo, the decent work challenges are further amplified by their young age, resulting in serious marginalization and exclusion from the labour market. This project aims at contributing to the development of locally adapted, gender-sensitive measures to promote the labour market inclusion of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian young women and men in Kosovo. The objective will be achieved through the adaptation of an ILO Resource Guide on Promoting Decent Work Opportunities for Roma Youth in Central and Eastern Europe and a pilot intervention using participatory action research methodologies in selected Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in Kosovo. The project’s innovative participatory action research component will enable RAE youth themselves to actively examine the labour market challenges they are facing (focusing on specific aspects identified by them as a priority), and facilitate positive change through action. The methodology ensures the involvement of all relevant stakeholders in the process and provides them with the tools that can enable them to become active agents of change. The project will actively strive to contribute to the economic and social empowerment of young women from RAE communities by securing their involvement in responsible roles throughout the project, and ensuring that their analysis, concerns and needs are appropriately addressed. The project aims at generating capacity and commitment on the part of Kosovar public agencies, social partners, and other stakeholders, including RAE youth directly, to address the labour market marginalization of RAE youth. Project activities will contribute to the formulation of evidence-based gender-sensitive and inclusive policies and programmes to promote decent work for RAE youth. Furthermore, the project will enable a sub-regional exchange to pull together the individual experiences of ILO interventions on Roma youth in the sub-region, draw comparative lessons, and feed the lessons learned into international European debates.
Modernizing international networking in occupational safety and health knowledge and information The project is built around two immediate objectives; the first consists of identifying existing agencies, institutions and organizations that are active in OSH knowledge and information development and dissemination around the world, and documenting their scope of work, technical capacities, structure and functioning modalities. The second immediate objective is closely related to the first and consists of strengthening and extending regional networking arrangements while also proposing modern networking modalities where they are lacking. Objective 1: Improved knowledge on agencies, institutions and organizations active in OSH around the world. This immediate objective aims at constituting, for the first time, the most comprehensive and updated global knowledge base on the work of OSH agencies, institutions and organizations across the world. Achieving this objective will establish, for once, a benchmark against which progress towards building capacities in OSH knowledge and information can be measured nationally and internationally over an extended period of time, and provide the baseline to eventually conduct a longitudinal study on the impact and benefit of knowledge-based OSH development initiatives. Objective 2: Enhanced international and regional networking in OSH knowledge and information. Connecting institutions and people in the world of OSH with the aim of encouraging and developing collaboration arrangements is an integral component of the new OSH GAP programme. From an ILO perspective the main purpose of networking in OSH is to provide a basis for international and regional collaboration among OSH agencies, institutions and organizations. The project will aim at establishing an effective framework for networking internationally, mobilize OSH knowledge and information stakeholders, and provide technical inputs in networking activities notably through developing joint projects aiming strengthening their capacity to acquire and use knowledge to develop effective prevention strategies, systems and programmes in their countries.
The way forward after the revolution: Decent work for women in Egypt and Tunisia - Phase II Building on the achievements of the first phase, the project aims at supporting ILO’s constituents, including the Government, workers’ and employers’ organizations to address the challenges women are facing in the labour market. It seeks to address the barriers to a satisfactory women participation in the labour market through a comprehensive approach that works at the macro, meso and micro levels and that tackles at the same time access to employment, entrepreneurship, decent work conditions, and social dialogue. The Government and the social partners in both countries are committed to closing the gender gap in the world of work, including by ensuring a better application of two key international conventions ratified on gender equality at work1. The project will continue to work with both Governments and with the most representative workers’ and employers’ organizations to strengthen their role in the promotion of gender equality. This work will build on and prolong earlier engagement and solid relations with these partners, in the domain and gender equality and beyond, to: make labour and private sector development policies more gender-responsive and the private sector able to attract, retain, and promote women in decent work; to strengthen and expand successful models for women’s entrepreneurship development and achieve a better inclusion of women in supply chains and local rural development; and to make workers’ and employers’ organizations benefit from increased women leadership and gender awareness so that they promote gender equality and nondiscrimination in the world of work.
Development of inclusive insurance markets The insurance industry in development countries has limited experience and capacity to reach out to new emerging market segments and increase its overall penetration. Furthermore, insurers have still room to improve the products that they currently offer to provide more relevant covers adapted to the needs of the population. Additionally, distribution channels for financial services need to better integrate insurance products to their core activities and understand how insurance can be delivered in a responsible way. Furthermore, existing expertise on inclusive insurance market development is oftentimes not used to its full potential when emerging market segments shall be tapped. The ILO and the Sector Project join forces for a one year partnership to develop the capacities of the microinsurance / inclusive insurance market participants by making available the tools and solutions on insurance market development that have already been tested and applied by both organizations. The partnership focuses on developing a consultation approach that enables stakeholders to analyze the current status of the insurance market development. The partners look at establishing partnerships with local actors (regulators, insurance associations, training institutes, government programmes and financial system development projects), and jointly finance the steps necessary to keep the process running in terms of implementing the tools and supporting the local insurance market development dynamic.