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Addressing social inclusion through vocational education and training Overall objective To facilitate access to vocational education and training by both promoting participation in VET as well as building the institutional capacity to support the inclusion of marginalized and socially excluded groups in the VET system. The ultimate aim is to promote coordination on employment and social services across national institutions and between the central and local levels. It further proposes to target disadvantaged groups through employment programmes linked to social services in three selected target municipalities. Specific objectives The project has four main specific objectives: • Generation of better and more reliable information on vulnerable and marginalised groups at risk of labour market exclusion • Institutional capacity support to relevant institutions • Advocacy, policy dialogue, and awareness raising • Direct implementation in target municipalities Planned Results Linked to the specific objectives, the following outputs are expected to be achieved by the end of the project: 1. Better identification and targeting of vulnerable and marginalized groups through periodic generation of reliable information 2. Developed capacity of decision-makers, managers and staff of participating central and local institutions as well as social partners to better design, monitor and evaluate policies, strategies and action-oriented employment programmes for marginalised groups. 3. Improved policy dialogue among the relevant institutions to support the inclusion of marginalised people into the labour market. 4. Measures for the inclusion of marginalized groups designed and tested in three municipalities.
Towards gender equality and women’s empowerment in the occupied Palestinian territory The human security challenges facing Palestinian women and men are multiple and cannot be resolved through a piece-meal approach. Improving women's access to decent work in the West Bank and Gaza Strip needs to take into account the ramifications ensuing from continued Israeli occupation, the limited employment opportunities generated by the Palestinian economy, the inadequate provision of social protection, in addition to social norms prevailing in Palestinian society. A comprehensive approach towards gender equality in the world of work continues to need attention to strengthening capacities of institutions to recalibrate wages and conduct regular gender-neutral job evaluation; investing in diversifying career opportunities for young girls and encouraging women to enter the labour force by securing necessary services, including provision of accessible and affordable quality child care. Such an approach can be achieved through research, capacity building, social dialogue and awareness raising. This initiative will focus on new areas of work such as pay equity and care economy while expanding work on gender based violence in the workplace and cooperatives.
Support to the Partnership Programme to Prevent and Eliminate Child Labour in the Americas
Customize and introduce entrepreneurship training package for disadvantaged youth (YEEP)
Actuarial consultancy and training - Oman The objective of the project is to assess the long-term viability and financial sustainability of the scheme administered by PASI. The project will also focus on the strengthening of internal actuarial capacities of PASI for a more important implication of its personnel in the production of future actuarial valuations of the scheme. Immediate objectives are: – to deliver the 6th actuarial review of the scheme administered by PASI, as of 31 December 2011, and – to build national capacities in the social security financial, actuarial and statistical field. The project falls within the framework of the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) 2010-13 established for Oman. More particularly it falls within the realm of Outcome 6 on the “Extension of social security coverage and improved national compliance with international health and safety standards” assisting the Government to “maintain[ing] transparent financial governance across public institutions” through the actuarial valuation of the schemes administered by PASI. Furthermore, the project shall contribute to enhancing the capacity of government officials from PASI in-line with the technical assistance and support to be provided for within the DWCP. The project will deliver the following outputs: 1. An ILO technical report on the 6th actuarial review of the scheme administered by PASI as of 30 December 2011 2. A tailor-made training program in social security statistics and actuarial analysis for the staff of PASI on the basis of the ILO actuarial model developed specifically for the PASI scheme. The indicators of these outputs are: (a) an actuarial review which, adheres to ILO principles set out in ILO Conventions and Recommendations on social security and is technically sound, will be delivered in a timely manner to Oman; and (b) the capacities of the PASI staff to use, update and maintain the ILO’s actuarial valuation models will be built.
Combating Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Zambia II In Africa, the first phase of the partnership seeks to build upon the actions carried out in Zambia between in 2010-11. According to the measurement criteria outlined above, Zambia achieved two results during the last biennium in relation to criteria 1 and 2 referring to new institutions that had been created to fight trafficking and ILO’s supervisory body noting with interest the country’s new anti-trafficking legislation. These results can be attributed to the previous Irish Partnership project in Zambia. As for the new phase, the objective is to prepare Zambia for an exit strategy while still focusing on the achievement of further results for this biennium. Action will be guided by Outcome 15’s country strategy as set out in ZMB177 ‘Greater capacity of national stakeholder to prevent forced labour and human trafficking in Zambia.’ The strategy aims to continue strengthening assistance mechanisms to victims of forced labour, including capacity building of shelters that were mapped during the previous biennium. Further support will be offered to the Central Statistics Office and other government agencies to provide up-to-date sex-disaggregated data and information on forced labour and responses to it. Action against forced labour and trafficking requires a comprehensive strategy and broad-based stakeholder consultations in order to better incorporate the elimination of forced labour in Decent Work Country Programmes. This is particularly relevant for countries such as Niger, Mauretania, DRC, Sudan and Liberia where the elimination of forced labour lacks political will and determination. The project will therefore develop a strategy paper for Africa, focusing in particular on the countries mentioned above, for further fundraising and targeted action during the second phase of the Irish Partnership.
Support to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour in Labour Market Information and Employment Policy The primary purpose of this agreement is to undertake a high level mapping/survey of youth employment in the MENA region. The mapping would cover existing policies, programs, key stakeholders, potential strategic partners, best practices, key networks, obstacles and opportunities in five potential demonstration countries across the MENA Region. The mapping will inform the next steps to be taken in each country.
Support the creation of an Integrated Regional Child Labour Resource Center and the formulation, review and implementation of NAPs against child labour in selected countries
Promoción y aplicación de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas (América Latina)
Promoting Rights and Opportunities for People with Disabilities - Equality through Legislation (PROPEL - Azerbaijan) The PROPEL-Azerbaijan project will have three main components: (i) a situation analysis of two selected medical rehabilitation centres leading to recommendations for change to be discussed and agreed with the MoLSPP; (ii) a study tour to centres constituting examples of good practice in a European country; (iii) a training programme for staff of the two centres to prepare them for the introduction of an new approach to service delivery. PROPEL-Azerbaijan will provide technical advice and funding support to these phases of the pilot project. It will also provide advice and support to the legal review and the development of a national vocational rehabilitation and employment policy, to improve the opportunities of women and men with disabilities in obtaining decent work and employment. Depending on the outcomes of the preparatory activities, PROPEL- Azerbaijan would continue, in the second half of the ILO/Irish Aid Partnership Programme, to provide capacity building support to the development by the Public Employment Services (PES) of Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) for persons with disabilities, based on international experience, and the pilot testing of these ALMPs in two employment centres.
UNIPP Technical Secretariat project This project establishes the secretariat of UNIPP. UNIPP will focus on the following key thematic areas for intervention: 1. Legislative review and reform: develop capacities of State institutions to have indigenous peoples’ rights included and recognized within the national legal system, including through constitutional reforms, development of legislation and incorporation at administrative levels both through indigenous specific legislation such as in areas of non-discrimination. 2 Democratic governance and indigenous peoples’ institutions: strengthening indigenous peoples’ institutions and organizational capacity to fully participate in governance and policy processes at local and national levels 3. Access to justice: recognition and strengthening of indigenous customary law and justice systems; and their inclusion within national legal systems. 4. Access to land and ancestral territories: developing and strengthening capacities for land titling, demarcation and use of ancestral territories, including local capacity development initiatives and those aimed at securing greater recognition of indigenous lands. 5. Natural resources and extractive industries: promoting a framework for conflict prevention, consultation, participation, benefit-sharing and dispute resolution. This area will have a special focus on conflict prevention initiatives around ancestral land and use of natural resources, in particular the need to develop capacity of indigenous communities in negotiation skills and dispute resolution in line with international legal instruments.
Support the promotion of social dialogue and the enhancement of the labour dispute resolution systems currently in place in Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar
Research on the Role of Business Skills and Capital Constraints in Micro Enterprise Development In response to a call for proposals launched by the IGC Research Programme and the IGC Country Programme of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the following proposal was submitted for funding. LSE has indicated its interest and intention to fund the proposal, offering £15,735.60 to support the research activity which is framed under the Evidence Based Advocacy Component of the Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) in East Africa . Funding would be made available to support the cost of involving key researchers in the work.
Strengthened capacity to ratify and apply international labour standards in Pakistan
Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the World of Work (Phase III) Through Phase III of the Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the World of Work in Brazil, Angola, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) project, the ILO will continue to work with governments and social partners to create decent employment, achieve women’s economic empowerment and gender equality in the workplace. The overriding aim of Phase III will be to build upon and consolidate what has been achieved in Phases I and II, such that the ILO’s approaches and tools will be embedded and ongoing. BASIC III will seek to develop the knowledge base on gender equality in the workplace; promote representation, advocacy and voice for women workers; and build the capacity of constituents to promote gender equality and combat gender-based discrimination. One central way of advancing this objective will be through using the results of research and outreach commissioned during Phases I and II to provide training and technical assistance to ILO constituents. Research and advocacy undertaken in respect of the ILO’s four ‘gender equality’ conventions in South Africa, India and Angola, on decent work for domestic workers in China and India, on work-life balance in Brazil and Angola, and on making labour force data more gender sensitive in South Africa will be followed up and where practicable developed into tools for constituents. As per the first two phases of the project, the ILO’s Participatory Gender Audit (PGA) will be used to advance gender equality in the workplace. PGA trainings have been undertaken with constituents in South Africa and Angola, and the methodology will be expanded to other countries. Given that (with the exception of Angola) the target countries are the dominant political and economic countries in their respective regions, Phase III will seek to replicate some of the good practices developed under Phases I and II in neighbouring Least Developed Countries (LDC). Thus the project will seek to replicate South African good practice in Zimbabwe; Indian good practice in Nepal; and Chinese good practice in Mongolia. Given the linguistic links, the project will also seek to replicate Brazilian and Angolan good practice in Mozambique.
Mainstreaming labour migration statistics in the Labour Market Information System (LMIS) in Yemen The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is funding an 18-month pilot project in Yemen aimed at improving the management and governance of labour migration. The proposed project will build the capacity of the Workers Abroad Department of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MoSAL). The rationale for the project in Yemen is to develop data collection and analysis systems to improve labour migration policy formulation. Indeed, migration statistics constitute an integral part of a larger statistical base on the labour market, which plays an important role in the allocation of labour to different end uses and in response to external shocks and adjustments of an economy. A solid base of statistical analysis will assist the governments in formulating migration policy, such that the emigration of Yemeni workers does not conflict with national interests and thus avoid the negative social costs that impede the realization of objectives and the political sustainability of the economic process.
Fortalecimiento de la efectiva aplicación de los derechos fundamentales en el trabajo y de los Pueblos Indígenas en Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua
Support to the Government of Zambia for the implementation of policy and the national plan of action against human trafficking Recognising the value of coordinated and collaborative programmes of support to the Government of Zambia, the UN Country Team has established a joint programme against human trafficking, involving ILO, IOM, and UNICEF. The objective of this programme is to contribute to the protection of people (especially children and women) from the harmful effects of trafficking by supporting implementation of Government’s policy and action plan against trafficking. The programme has two purposes: first, to support GRZ programmes to reduce the incidence of human trafficking, and second, to build capacity amongst public officials, service providers and non-state actors to detect and respond to cases of trafficking. These purposes will be realised by: ¿ Building resilience amongst people at risk of being trafficked ¿ Building a protective environment at local level and developing broad based vigilance including diverse community, local actors, householders and employers ¿ Enhancing the response to trafficking through detection, response and improved services to victims. The programme includes activities at national level, such as awareness-raising and capacity building, as well as targeted action in sending communities and in receiving communities within the country. These communities are located in various parts of the country, including urban and peri-urban along major transport routes, border areas and very poor rural areas with limited economic opportunities. Information from the 2007 EC funded study on child trafficking and the 2008 study on trafficking and forced labour (both ILO) will be combined with information from on-going support to victims of trafficking by IOM and national partners in order to map out vulnerable communities to be targeted. In-depth research on trafficking for domestic labour will contribute to further define geographical target areas, particularly those poor rural areas that serve as sending communities.
Occupational health and safety and social dialogue in the mining sector in Colombia This ultimate project goal is to improve social and economic conditions of mining sector stakeholders in the Department of La Guajira in Colombia, guaranteeing fundamental rights at work, in particular freedom of association, collective bargaining, in accordance with International labour Standards. In particular, the project will contribute to strengthen the institutional capacity to promote the respect of fundamental rights at work, occupational safety and health practices and productive development in the coal mining sector in La Guajira, Colombia. The project is expected to achieve two main interrelated outcomes. On the one hand, as a necessary condition to improve working conditions (including occupational safety and health), the project needs to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Subcommittee on Wage and Labour Policies of the La Guajira Department in terms of promotion of fundamental rights at work and conflict prevention and resolution in enterprises contractors of the mining sector. This institutional capacity will then serve other economic sectors and enterprises of the Department and creates the conditions of improved labour relations in the region. On the other hand, based on an improved labour relations among employers and workers, the project will implement tools and methodologies to strengthen cooperation at the workplace and achieve practical improvements on occupational safety and health conditions of workers and improved productivity in twenty (20) small, medium and large enterprises (with 50 to 1,800 workers each) contractors of the leading coal company Carbones El Cerrejón. The project will achieve the following outputs (for each outcome): 1. Increased institutional capacity of social dialogue to promote the respect of principles and fundamental rights at work, occupational safety and health and working conditions in the Department of La Guajira in Colombia. 1.1. Diagnosis on labour relations in la Guajira designed and discussed on a tripartite basis. 1.2. Capacity building programme on conflict prevention and resolution for Subcommittee ´s members designed and conducted. 1.3. Advocacy and outreach campaigns conducted to improve occupational safety and health and working conditions in the mining sector in La Guajira 1.4. A strategy to improve labour relations and dialogue in mining sector agreed upon by tripartite constituents (government, employers and workers). 2. Increased capacity of contractors of the coal mining sector in La Guajira on occupational safety and health at the workplace and productivity. 2.1. Local professional staff from the National Vocational Training Institute (SENA) and private consultants, trained on OSH methodologies. 2.2. Contractors of the mining sector have adopted methodologies and practices to improve occupational safety and health and productivity at the workplace. 2.3. Results systematized and discussed with Subcommittee members are disseminated nationally for an application in other regions
Support the enhancement of social security systems and the promotion of expanded coverage to vulnerable groups in the Caribbean
Broad-based Wealth and Job Creation in Zambia Economic Empowerment through MSME Development
Strengthening mechanisms for Implementation of Unemployment Insurance Law Strengthening mechanisms for Implementation of Unemployment Insurance Law Project executive summary This UI support project has been designed as two-years project which is funded by One UN fund in Vietnam. The project aims at improving operational efficiency and legislation of the scheme so as to enhance the access of unemployed workers to UI benefits. This project follows system development approach as it focuses on strengthening institutionalized capacity of implementing agencies at national and provincial levels. In addition, it helps to reinforce co-ordination mechanism among key stakeholders for better services provided to unemployed workers when they lose their job. The main outcomes and outputs of the programme are: Immediate objective 1: By the end of the project, the UI functional efficiency, UI policy, legislation and procedures are improved to ensure the wider coverage of workers under the UI scheme, equal and fair accesses of male and female workers to, and benefits and services from, the UI scheme. Immediate objective 2: By the end of the project, the financial sustainability of the Unemployment Insurance scheme has been reviewed and improved. Immediate objective 3: By the end of the project, the overall management of the UI is improved through integration with management information system, quality assurance system and improved capacity. The project, under the National Cooperation Framework on Promoting Decent Work in Viet Nam for period 2006-2010 (Decent Work Country Programme or DWCP), continues to build on a number of past and present ILO’s projects such as the Labor Market, Better Work, Flexecurity and some other UI support activities. It is also linked with the One UN programme framework (One Plan) which is the UN’s key framework for strengthening national capacities and supporting the implementation of the national Socio Economic Development Plan (SEDP). By the end of project, the number of UI premium contributors is expected to increase by 10%. This will be complemented by efforts to develop quality control system, to improve actuarial work, and to expand trainings to reach about 200 staff running UI scheme. The project will be executed by the ILO Office in Viet Nam with technical support from provided by the Social security Department (SEC SOC) in Geneva and the Decent Work Team for East Asia, South-East Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. MoLISA, VSS, MOF, VGCL and VCCI will be closely involved in policy guidance and project coordination process through a Project Steering Committee.