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Employment Generation and Livelihoods through Reconciliation in Sri Lanka ILO has been implementing the Local Empowerment through Economic Development (LEED) Project funded by the Department of Foreign affairs and Trade (DFAT) of the Government of Australia since 2011. The focus of the project has and continues to be on contributing to a more inclusive and equitable post conflict recovery and development. This is an ILO response to the need to reduce fragility in the post conflict setting in Sri Lanka by creating decent work opportunities and support inclusive growth and reconciliation. The project is considered to have been successful on a number of levels. At a national level it has built awareness of the north south development gap and created examples and avenues through which responsible investment partnerships can be created between the private sector and primary producer communities. As a result of project interventions the project has been able to support more than 100,000 families with various income generation and employments related opportunities and has been able to support more than 35,000 individuals gaining direct employment and self-employments activities. As a result of concerted efforts to include more Female Headed Households (FHHs), the project has been able to support more than 10,000 FHHs to access direct and improved income generating opportunities. The income generated while exporting of crops by the individuals who have been linked with various fruit and vegetable value chains have already exceeded 2 MN USD. Income from the fisheries for individuals also have exceeded 1.5 MN USD. Income from other interventions such as MSMEs and Other field crops also has recorded 0.5 MN USD. As a result of these interventions, the individuals who had no access to such income generating opportunities prior to the project, are now in a better position to invest in improving housing, give their children a better education, access to better health facilities and improved life styles. Building on these successes the project will continue to scale up on the current activities in the Fruit & Vegetable and Fishery sectors and continue to contribute to a more inclusive and equitable post conflict recovery and development in the Fruit and Vegetable and Fishery Sectors. The project will also continue to strengthen the current partnerships and develop new partnerships through new business models that not only will create jobs and incomes but address the power relationships between rural vulnerable producers and large agricultural and fishery companies. On a national basis the project will continue their work in the fishery sector to support the implementation of the National Fishery Improvement Plan for blue swimming crab so as the interests and concerns of the fishing communities are protected and realized. The project will respond to the need to reduce fragility in the post conflict setting of Sri Lanka by creating decent work opportunities and supporting inclusive growth and reconciliation.
Building the Capacity of the Philippines Labour Inspectorate In order to improve workplace compliance with labour laws and regulations in the Philippines, the ILO proposes, in close coordination with constituents and relevant partners, to: (1) strengthen the capacities of DOLE so that it is able to enforce a LLCS that is consistent with relevant international standards, in particular with the requirements of ILO C. 81. It will do so by: i) reviewing DOLE’s internal procedures and protocols to improve quality of data generated by inspection reports; ii) finalizing the operationalization of the LLCS-MIS; iii) training DOLE staff on LLCS-MIS to support data collection; iv) training DOLE staff on programming work priorities and designing work plans using the LLCS-MIS; v) reviewing procedures and tools that support effective performance of LLCOs’ roles; vi) training relevant staff on the implementation of the LLCS; vii) training relevant staff on how to carry out specialized inspections (including OSH); viii) informing tripartite constituents on the requirements for the ratification of ILO C. 81, and; ix) briefing officials and technical staff in the legislature on the proposed LLCS bill. The project will also seek to (2) strengthen the capacities of workers and employers to play a more active role in the implementation of the LLCS, in particular through joint assessments. It will do so by: i) designing and disseminating information, education and communication materials on the new LLCS to social partners; ii) training workers on their roles and responsibilities in joint assessments and in the LLCS as a whole; iii) establishing trade union monitor networks, iv) strengthening the capacities of the employers to attract new members and effectively participate in joint assessments and in the LLCS as a whole; v) enhancing the monitoring capacities of employers, and : vi) identifying and disseminating good practices of joint assessment through tripartite consensus.
Improving working conditions in the ready-made garment sector RMGP – Phase 2. The programme will help improve industry safety and working conditions. It will ground gender equality into institutional practices and support the empowerment of women workers. At the same time the initiative will help foster business competitiveness and assist the Government of Bangladesh and the industry in its pursuit to achieve a 50 billion United Stated Dollars RMG export sector by 2021. The second phase builds on the achievements of the first to achieve four closely linked objectives: · All factories under the National Initiative will have either successfully undergone remediation or ceased to operate · The capacity of the Government of Bangladesh to regulate industrial safety will have been enhanced and an effective labour inspection system will be in place. · The regulatory environment governing OSH will have been strengthened and OSH practices in the RMG industry further enhanced. · Working conditions and compliance in the RMG industry will have improved though the actions of Better Work Bangladesh
Supporting the extension of social health protection in South-East Asia This initiative aims at increasing financial health protection in the three target countries Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam under the overall umbrella of national strategies towards UHC and the global development agenda including ILO’s Flagship Programme on Social Protection Floors. Under the regional component of the Project, a regional facility providing a platform for exchange, joint research and regional training opportunities for experts, academic institutions and practitioners in the area of social health protection, will be established, implementing a sustainable capacity building strategy. The facility will also contribute with regional experiences to global discussions while at the same time promoting South-South cooperation between the participating countries. At country level activities will be aligned with national social health protection strategies and complement initiatives of other development partners. The main effort will be placed on the development of national institutional and human resources. Technical support will focus on policy advise on extension strategies for social health protection with a specific focus on equity and providing coverage for the informal sector, on strengthening design and implementation of existing schemes through research and assessments of specific aspects of social health protection, on financial sustainability through actuarial valuations and costing studies of strategies, on strengthening capacity of stakeholders and on dissemination and advocacy on the importance of social health protection extension for poverty reduction and equitable development. The Project will have a total duration of 42 months including an inception phase of 6 months that will be used to agree with national stakeholders and the donor on a detailed work plan for each country; as well as for a better definition of the regional component. The Project will be grounded on the establishment of partnerships with other institutions, including development partners and the private sector towards the mobilization of additional resources, aiming at expanding the operation of the regional facility beyond the three initial countries.
Understanding Children's Work - Action Against Child Labour This project aims to end violence, exploitation and abuse of children, with a focus on the progressive elimination of child labour. The Understanding Children’s Work Programme (a joint ILO-UNICEF-World Bank initiative) provides a global platform for child labour policy dialogue, partnership building and research cooperation. The goal of the project is to support partner agencies and national governments in improving the statistical information on child labour in its various dimensions – its nature, extent, causes and consequences – as well as on what policy approaches are most effective in addressing it. The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) strengthened national tracking and monitoring of the elimination of child labour, including in support to country-owned policies and plans; (2) increased accountability and monitoring of progress in the child labour field, including the post-2015 development agenda; and (3) increased effectiveness of partnerships to address child labour. A wide range of stockholders, including the ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank conduct country-level research on child labour and youth employment challenges to gain a better understanding of these issues and advance policy dialogue. Overall, the project promotes research addressing key knowledge gaps and the effective use of this research in the design of comprehensive policies and programs aimed at addressing child labour and youth employment. Project research outputs shall constitute an input to the World Child Labour conference in Argentina in 2017, while the indicators and statistics produced as part of the project will help in monitoring the post-2015 goals relating to the child labour and youth employment.
Better Factories Cambodia Stage III (2016 – 2018) DFAT funding will be used on supporting the Better Factories Cambodia phase III (2016-2018). Based on the country specific goals of the BFC project; i.e. roll-out of adjusted service delivery model in existing factories and continued expansion to footwear factories; strengthened collaboration with the government; and implementation of strategy to increase the long term viability of the BFC programme, at the end of the project phase, BFC expects to achieve the following outcomes: Outcome 1: Cambodian exporting factories in the garment and footwear sector will have strengthened their capacity to improve and uphold compliance with the labour law. Outcome 2: BFC will have strengthened its engagement with the Cambodian government to improve their capacity to identify, non-compliance issues, strengthen enforcement, and uphold labour standards. Outcome 3: BFC will have strengthened its engagement and partnerships with key stakeholders for increased influence and impact on working conditions in factories and the systemic issues in the sector as a whole. Outcome 4: BFC will have used its experience and data to inform and influence practices and policies related to responsible business practices in the industry. Outcome 5: BFC will have strengthened its governance and management for increased sustainability.
Workplaces and industries for sustainable and inclusive growth through sharing good practices of GBA, OSH and IR projects The project will contribute to policy dialogue and support systems that can help industries and workplaces to drive sustainable and inclusive growth in the Asian region. It will have a specific component in Indonesia and prepare to replicate the experience in other countries. It will combine the enhancement of platforms and capacities for tripartite policy. dialogue and the development of shared goals, with capacity building in practical, bottom-up approaches for industry upgrading and enterprise improvement that deliver concrete benefits to workers and employers. The project is based on and expand the work carried out under the previous phases of the ILO/Japan Greener Business Asia (GBA) Project, and carry forward key components of the ASEAN-ILO/Japan Project on Industrial Relations (AIJPIR), drawing upon the tools and experience of the ILO/Japan on Occupational Safety and Health in Hazardous Work in Southeast Asia (OSH) Project. The project will contribute to advancing gender equality and to addressing disability through the dissemination of a module on equality and diversity at the workplace (developed under earlier phases of GBA) that will be part of the industry cluster intervention. Research and assessments carried out by the project will collect sex-disaggregated data. The participation of women in training and capacity building activities will be actively encouraged. Further, in working with the target groups, the project will consistently mainstream gender perspective in its various interventions and approaches, recognizing strategic roles and needs of both women and men and will incorporate means to be able to monitor these.
Labour standards in global supply chains - a programme of action for Asia and the garment sector This project was initiated as part of a Joint Declaration of Intent for a renewed partnership between the German Ministry for Development Cooperation (BMZ) and the ILO. The declaration identified labour standards in global supply chains as a priority for cooperation during the coming years. The target countries for the project are Cambodia, Indonesia, and Pakistan. The project’s activities contribute to the Decent Work Country Programmes of the target countries. The project includes activities at the factory, national, regional, and global levels. The project leverages and complements other ILO activities, as well as the BMZ-funded, GIZ-implemented programme on Labour and Social Standards in the Textile and Clothing Sector in Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia and Pakistan).
Vision Zero Fund Myanmar The objective of the Vision Zero Fund (VZF) is to work towards the vision of zero fatal and severe work-related injuries and diseases. The Fund therefore aims to reduce the number of fatal and severe accidents and occupational diseases in developing countries by improving occupational safety and health practices and conditions in sectors that link to global supply chains. Myanmar has been chosen as the first pilot country for VZF. The project will initially focus on the garment sector, and be extended during subsequent phases to other sectors. During the inception phase, the project document, budget and workplan will be developed in close coordination with ILO's constituents, stakeholders and partners.
Improved labour market and migration governance The United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosted an impressive 7.8 million migrant workers in 2013 which makes the UAE the 5th biggest country in the world in terms of immigrants. With Emiratis working mainly in the public sector, migrant workers make up a substantial proportion of the labour market in the private sector. The Ministry of Labour of the UAE faces a number of challenges in its governance of the labour market, including its governance of labour migration, and invited the ILO to collaborate on areas of mutual concern. Following an ILO technical scoping mission to the UAE on 16-19 November 2014, three broad areas of mutual interest for collaboration were identified, adding to the ongoing work on skills recognition of migrant workers. In addition, an inter-country initiative for fair recruitment was identified, which will be covered in a separate proposal. The three focus areas are linked together by the need to improve evidence-based policy making and document impact and progress on labour market and labour migration governance, and thus contribute to Vision2021 and the national agenda, making employment a fundamental pillar of its development policy. A programme of joint work is proposed for a 2-year-period, and this concept note aims to frame a technical cooperation project, covering the three areas identified as follows: 1. Upgrade of the Labour Market Information System (LMIS) at federal and sub national level. 2. Improve the labour inspection (LI) system and capacity in the private sector, including to prevent and identify forced labour. 3. the development of dispute prevention and resolution (DR) mechanisms along with improved access to justice for migrant workers. For each of these three areas a concept note was developed, and agreed upon, between the Ministry of Labour of the UAE and the ILO. The essentials of these three concept notes have been integrated into one in this concept note. A total amount of funds of USD 1,916,251 has in principle been reserved by the Ministry of Labour of the UAE to cover costs under this programme of work.
Better Work - Disney Workplace Improvement: Licensees and intermediaries The aim of this project is to pilot a programme to build the capacity of licensees, sourcing agents, other intermediaries and even vendors to manage social compliance issues and to equip them with practical approaches and tools they can cascade into their network of factories to manage issues more effectively. This proposal recognizes that many Better Work buyer partners source product indirectly through intermediaries and many are grappling with how to encourage and support these intermediaries to engage effectively with Better Work country programmes and compliance more generally. Better Work would need to partner closely with Disney and other buyer partners to achieve the objectives of this project. The proposed project plan is to be implemented over a two year time period. Since licensees and intermediaries may be headquartered in the US, Europe or Asia, some workshops will be held in these locations to ensure top management participates. Work with the factories in their supply chain will be targeted to enterprises in Asia.
Strengthened capacity of Member States to ratify and apply international labour standards and to fulfil their reporting obligations This project responds to the willingness of ILO constituents in Guatemala to participate in a process to strengthen their capacities, promote social dialogue and improve the institutional framework so as to ensure the effective application of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169). Since its ratification by the country in 1996, the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) has provided comments on its application. This has included observations on the need to effectively recognize the rights of indigenous peoples and to design and implement public policies that recognize the importance of their participation in decisions that directly affect their working conditions, use of land, social security and education, among other issues. The CEACR has invited the Government of Guatemala to adopt an effective participation and consultation mechanism that would ensure effective compliance with Convention No. 169. The project will focus on: (1) strengthening the capacities of government institutions (at national, regional and local levels), of employers' and workers' organizations as well as of organizations representing indigenous people; (2) strengthening institutions that promote and ensure the necessary conditions for the country to respond to the observations of the ILO supervisory bodies; and (3) promoting dialogue among the actors involved in the adoption and application of a consultation mechanism. The theory of change underpinning the strategy envisages that the country will be able to show substantial improvements in the effective application of Convention No. 169, in line with the observations of the ILO supervisory bodies, provided that the proposed sectoral tripartite social dialogue is effective and allows for the adoption and implementation of a consultation mechanism; the capacities of the actors involved ensure a better understanding, promotion and response around the principles established by the Convention; and the Government strengthens its management capacity to respond to its legal obligations with regard to the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights. This project contributes to the country’s efforts to advance towards the attainment of SDG target 8.8 (Protect labour rights and promote secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment).
PROMOTE: Decent Work for Domestic Workers to End Child Domestic Work The PROMOTE project implements a unique strategy to affect lasting change to end child labor in the domestic work (DW) sector. The project will concentrate its efforts in building the capacities of national organizations in Indonesia, specifically the National Network for Domestic Workers Advocacy in Indonesia (JALA PRT), Action Committee for Protection of Domestic Workers and Migrant Workers (KAPPRT & BM), the Network of Indonesian Child Labor NGOs (JARAK) and will also work with the International Domestic Workers Network (IDWN). The project will be implemented for a period of 42 months, starting 31 December 2012 – 30 June 2016 with a funding from USDOL in an amount of USD 4,999,970. The project has five focus areas as follows: i) expanding legal protection to child and adult domestic workers; ii) broadening the outreach and responsiveness of domestic worker organizations at the national and regional levels to tackle the complex phenomenon of child domestic work and decent work deficits in the domestic work sector through targeted capacity building; iii) promoting in-country and regional knowledge sharing; iv) breaking new ground in raising awareness using non-traditional media and innovative partnerships; and, v) ensuring analysis and documentation of outcomes as well as transparency and accountability which are key tenets of this work. Building on Indonesia’s expressed national commitment and a decade of pioneering work in this area, The project key strategies are: a) Promote the ratification of ILO Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers in Indonesia; b) Promote the adoption of a national Bill on Domestic Work through technical support, making full use of the ILO’s contacts with key ministries, and other key stakeholders; c) Promote the adoption of provincial and district regulations providing specific protection for 15-17 year old child domestic workers; d) Promote strategic partnerships involving international groupings such as the IDWN and Anti-Slavery International in strengthening the capacity of at least three burgeoning Indonesian domestic worker organizations; e) Build capacity on rights awareness and self-empowerment of domestic workers through collective action reaching at least 20,000 domestic workers during the life of the project; f) Promote a major national awareness raising campaign involving domestic worker organizations, traditional media, using information communication technologies, and innovative partners; g) Foster learning and catalyze sustained action across Asia on decent work for domestic workers through the production of two major regional and in-country training and knowledge sharing tools and regional knowledge sharing workshops; and h) Conduct research including analytical research on domestic workers’ working conditions and wages, development of monitoring tools for domestic workers to assess their working and living conditions, and a methodology to generate new estimates of the number of child and adult domestic workers in this “hidden” sector, upon which to frame sound policy, law, advocacy and action.