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Intervention and Monitoring of Underage Recruitment and Children EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ILO in Myanmar works to a restricted mandate for the elimination of forced labour including underage recruitment. The Yangon Liaison Office is also part of the Country Task force for Children in Armed Conflict (CTFMR) working with UN and INGO partners. As a member of the CTFMR the ILO is a full party to an agreed multiple agency project funded by the EU targeted at fulfilling the obligations imposed through the listing of Myanmar under Security Council Resolution 1612 on Children in Armed Conflict. This supports the areas of monitoring and reporting, intervention and release, rehabilitation and reintegration, and training and educating of both Government Authorities (military and civil) and the General Public. The EU funding is for 12 months (50%) of a two year activity on the basis that the individual Agencies party to the project obtain the other 12 months (50%) funding from alternative sources. In respect of these project commitments the ILO has accepted responsibility for supporting the monitoring and reporting, intervention and release, and education and training elements. In this regard the ILO will: 1. Through the strengthening, expansion and improved coordination of its complaint facilitator network and through the operation of the Supplementary Understanding Complaints Mechanism (SU) agreed between the Government of the Union of Myanmar (GoUM) and the ILO, monitor incidents, identify trends and provide resultant information and statistics for inclusion in CTFMR reports. 2. Through the operation of the SU Complaints Mechanism achieve the discharge/ release of underage recruits into the military. Under the SU residents of Myanmar can safely complain to the ILO if they believe that they or their family etc have been subjected to forced labour or underage recruitment. The Liaison Officer assesses the complaint and if deemed genuine and within the scope of the SU will submit the complaint to the GoUM for their verifying investigation. A solution to the complaint is then negotiated which may involve in underage recruitment cases, amongst other things, further training of Government Officials, the discharge of the victim, his release from prison if convicted of desertion and the punishment of the perpetrator under criminal and/or military law. 3. In association with the Ministry of Labour, other CTFMR members and in its own right undertake awareness raising and training activity with Officials (Military and Civil) as to their responsibilities under Myanmar Law and International Conventions; and of Civil Society and the General Public as to their rights under the law.
Support evidence-based approaches and studies to respond effectively and efficiently to HIV and AIDS
Prevention of trafficking in persons through improved governance of labour migration from Sri Lanka Project summary Irregular, undocumented migration of women and girls for domestic work overseas is a key area of concern to the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) as this renders these workers vulnerable to trafficking into exploitative labour, including commercial sexual exploitation. The majority of reported cases are from the Eastern parts of the country. Despite the GOSL’s efforts to protect its migrant workers, there is a need to reinforce these measures as large numbers of migrant workers still experience violations of their labour rights through psychological and physical harassment, isolation, non-payment of agreed wages, debt bondage to placement agencies and involuntary servitude. The overall goal is to promote decent work in “conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity” for women and children employed as domestic or unskilled workers abroad, reducing their vulnerability to rights violations as victims of trafficking for labour exploitation. This proposal stems from consultations held with the Ministry of Justice, the National Child Protection Authority, Ministry of Foreign Employment Promotion & Welfare (MOFEP&W), Ministry of Labour Relations and Manpower (MOLRM), the Association of Licensed Foreign Employment Agents (ALFEA) and other concerned organizations in Sri Lanka such as the IOM, and has been consolidated as support to a national response to the 2007 TIP report. This proposal addresses components within the programme which ILO is in a strong position to implement. It aims to achieve the following priority objectives: Immediate Objective 1 - Strengthened law enforcement mechanisms and operations in order to reduce fraudulent/abusive recruitment practices and undocumented migration for domestic work. Immediate Objective 2: Enhanced legal, institutional and policy frameworks in order to support better governance and more efficient management of migration, including of domestic workers. Immediate Objective 3: Improved knowledge base and coordination to support better-informed, rights-based labour migration, including of domestic workers.
Way out of informality: facilitating formalisation of informal economy in South Asia
Improving social protection and promoting employment The project will contribute to the developpement of a coherent and integrate social protection and employment policy framework in the pilot countries based on sound data and diagnostic tools and with the active participation of the social partners. It will support the achievement of the Millenium Development Goal on poverty reduction in line with the European Consensus on Development and the EU commitment to Decent Work for all, as well as 2008 ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a fair Globalization. Objectives: National Plans to extend social protection coverage and to promote employment will be proposed in the context of a Decent Work Strategies response to the economic Crisis. The results of the national experiences will serve to promote an international campaign to raise awarenesse and exchange good practices on extension of social protection coverage and employment promotion. Expected results: - A diagnosis of the national situation and needs in the areas of social protection and employment prepared in consultation with government agencies and social partners; - National plans are drafted for extension of social protection coverage and employment promotion policies - Policy makers and social actors are capable to use diagnostic tools to prepare national plans on the extension of social protection and employment promotion - Dissemination of experience providing support for the International Campaign for the Extension of Social Protection to All and for the implementation of the Global Employment Agenda.
Education and Skills Training for Youth Employment (EAST) EAST is designed around the life cycle approach, taking into account the close relationship between needs of youth at all stages of the learning cycle; from participation in basic education to training opportunities in or through the workplace. To address the obstacles experienced by adolescents and youth in accessing education and training, and to facilitate their transition to the world of work, EAST will target • Children aged 13-15, both out of school and in school (NFE, Junior Secondary School); • In-school youth aged 15-18 (Vocational and General Secondary Schools); and • Out-of-school youth aged 15-29 who are or want to be enrolled in public and private training and education programmes The interventions cover 4 main areas of action with young people in-school and out-of-school: - Enhancing learning opportunities: - Improving access to career guidance and counselling: - Building capacity to deliver market-oriented livelihood and technical skill training: - Building entrepreneurship culture among youth: These targeted interventions are supported by cross-cutting strategies, which focus on making available top-quality research, enhancing capacity for policy advocacy, strengthening structures and networks at national, provincial, and district levels, and mainstreaming gender equality issues. Direct recipients of technical assistance will be teachers, tutors and instructors in formal and non-formal education and training institutions; education, manpower and planning authorities at the district, provincial and national level; employers’ and workers’ organisations at local and national level; the National Education Standards Board; the National Agency for Professional Certification; and selected universities. EAST will focus specifically on five provinces in Eastern Indonesia where human development indicators are particularly poor, the private sector is least developed and local political commitment to improving education and training is high. In addition, the programme also will implement selected activities in Aceh, to the extent that they complement ongoing ILO assistance, lend themselves to quick replication or upscaling, and/or respond to identified needs that have not yet been met by national or international development agencies.
Support the SADC Secretariat to provide good governance of labour migration in the member states
Support to strengthen the private sector's role in employment creation through improved contracting and procurement policies and practices
Capacity development for workers’ organizations; mainstreaming tripartism in the Sida Programme This project will be implemented by ACTRAV with the following aims: strengthening the capacities of trade union organizations covering the broad area of Decent Work.; mainstreaming workers’ participation in the overall SIDA programme. In particular the ACTRAV’s project will focus on three strategic areas of work, namely: -Freedom of association and the process of strengthening workers’ organizations in the exporting processing zones (EPZ). -Develop the advanced knowledge and research capacity of workers’ organizations in the area of Job-inclusive growth and working conditions. -Develop advanced knowledge and labour education in the area of OSH.
Labour incomes and employment The purpose of the joint EC-ILO study is to (i) document and assess the factors underlying wage developments, notably in developing and emerging economies; and (ii); develop a framework for examining the impact of wage policies on a number of economic, employment and social objectives. This latter component will be the basis of future collaborative efforts between the EC and ILO to assess the implications of various policy instruments in this area. The joint project will help augment the work and policy development of the European Commission., notable Europe 2020, the EU's growth strategy for the coming decade. At the same time, it is also consistent with the ILO’s objectives as set out in the Strategic Policy Framework (2010-15), notably providing greater opportunities for women and men to secure decent employment and income.
Measuring stigma, discrimination, human rights violations and gender inequality experienced by people living with HIV and key affected populations in Thailand, with a focus on health service delivery The ILO leads this inter-agency collaborative research project to develop a survey tool to measure stigma, discrimination, human rights violations and gender inequality experienced by people living with HIV in the health care sector in Thailand. The iimplementation of these survey tools will be in three provinces and the development of a set of questions to be answered by key affected populations will be included in the Thailand national integrated biological and behavioural survey instruments for future applications. This project aims to accelerate Thailand's response to stigma, discrimination, human rights violations and gender inequality experienced by peole living with HIV and key affected populations through improved strategic informaiton and monitoring on a sub-national and national level with a specific focus on health service delivery.
Strengthening social dialogue as an effective tool to address the worst forms of child labour
Empowering union participation for strengthening the role of VGCL in Better Work Vietnam
UNDAP-DAO support The United Nations Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP) is the business plan of 20 UN agencies, funds and programmes in Tanzania for the period July 2011 to June 2015. This 'One Plan' for Tanzania supports the achievement of the international development goals, the Millennium Declaration and related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), national development priorities which are consistent with the MDGs, and the realisation of international human rights in the country, including the right to humanitarian assistance for refugees. The UNDAP replaces the current joint UN programmes and the multiple UN-supported initiatives in the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) with a single, coherent business plan for all UN funds, programmes and agencies in Tanzania, in which each is responsible for delivery on a set of key actions that jointly contribute to shared results. UNDAP enhances national ownership and UN accountability by articulating the precise UN contribution to the national priorities outlined in the national poverty reduction strategies, MKUKUTA & MKUZA II 2011-15.1 These national development frameworks are seen as supportive of international commitments including the MDGs. UNDAP is aligned to the national annual planning cycle,July to June. The accountability of the UN system at normative functional and programmatic level is fully articulated, down to the individual agency, and guided by the principles of effective development cooperation laid down in the Joint Assistance Strategy for Tanzania ( JAST). The UNDAP responds to the UN mandate and mission in Tanzania in ensuring inclusiveness of all state and non-state actors in the development of the country.
Competitiveness of the Sugar Sector (CSS) in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and El Salvador The Project has the following objectives: Development objective. To contribute to sustainable enterprise create productive, decent jobs and enhanced labour rights compliance in the sugar sector in the Dominican Repulbic, Honduras and El Salvador. Immediate objective 1: Increased dialogue and collaboration between employers and workers at plan level in the sugar sector in each participating country. Immediate objective 2: Ministries of Labour attain institutional capacity to promote and monitor labour rights and increase compliance of committees from bipartite agreements at plant level in the sugar sector Immediate objective 3: Improved training services and productivity-enhancing methodologies available to the sugar cane sector in the selected countries
Support to on-line distance learning platform adaptedfrom ITC-ILO training curriculum on building modern and effective labour inspection systems
Formations au Centre international de formation à Turin - Volet: "Appui à la promotion de l'emploi et réduction de la pauvreté (APERP)" L’objectif de développement du projet est celui d’améliorer les conditions de vie des populations des pays concernés par la mise en œuvre d’activités favorisant le développement de l’emploi dans le cadre de l’Agenda de l’OIT en faveur du Travail Décent. La contribution du CIF-OIT s’insère dans le cadre de l’objectif immédiat n°4 de « Renforcer les capacités techniques des acteurs de l’emploi, notamment celles des partenaires sociaux ». Les produits attendus sont énumérés dans la liste suivante : ¿ Des formations techniques sont fournies et des documents porteurs de contenus de formation sont remis aux mandants de l’OIT ¿ Un réseau de personnes nationales ressources est constitué pour les pays bénéficiaires d’activités de renforcement de capacités ¿ Des formations techniques spécifiques sur les indicateurs d’emploi et de formation professionnelle, leur analyse et leur suivi sont organisées.
Training support to improve compliance under better work Jordan The purpose of this project is a) to develop and implement a training component of Better Work Jordan that will compliment and strneghten the advisory services offered to participating facgories and b) to develop effective training modules in two areas of common need identified through factory assessments, human resource management and occupational safety and health. The importance of factories more effectively developing systems to addresss these two areas is magnified by the prevalence of migrant workers in teh apparel sector in Jordan and the particular challenges this poses.
Edible Oil Value Chain Enhancement Ethiopia has huge potential for scaling up its production of edible oil: favorable agro-climatic conditions for increased oil seeds cultivation, the labor intensive nature of the sub-sector, conducive business environment, the willingness of the oil seed crushers to work at full capacity and the huge local demand. Despite this potential however, the edible oil processing industry remains underdeveloped. Main constraints are: low production, poor quality of seeds, inadequate trading infrastructure and poor agro-processing facilities, weak business development services for upgrading the processors and limited access to local and international markets. Weak linkages among the chain’s actors and lack of working capital also constitute major obstacles. The JP is to “enhance the sustainable supply of oil seed raw material at desired quantity and quality, promote efficient processing capacity and improve the access to markets by integrating the private sector in the entire value chain”. Total Budget: 2,999,956 USD Out of which, ILO: 782,170 USD ILO outcomes and activities: (2.6) Access to finance for processors cooperatives improved; (2.7) Capacity of Business Development Service (BDS) providers enhanced to deliver relevant and effective services to the processors including processors cooperatives; (2.8) OSH practice of the large processors and cooperatives strengthened; (2.9) Processors organized to get economic of scale, representation and voice. (2.10) Processors in the informal economy upgraded to graduate into the formal economy. Activities include desk review, consultations, training, roudtable meetings and workshops, manual adaptation and development.
Implementation of capacity building training and support to BDS providers, financial institutions, SMEs and SME associations.
Support Constituents to develop Active Labour Mkt Prog for people with disabilities and to formulate Strategies for their vocational rehabilitation
Enhancing Workers' Access to Labour Rights and Jobs in Haiti - Decentralized The project strategy is to improve the normative and institutional environment for compliance with labour standards. To take full advantage of the opportunity created by expanded trade preferences under the HOPE II legislation, the country will need to address a number of issues. One particular issue is compliance with national labour legislation and international labour standards. The perception of Haiti as a country with low levels of compliance with labour standards can, and has, deterred potential international buyers from sourcing there. This issue has been informally discussed at a Global Buyers Forum. This in turn is likely to negatively affect the opportunities for investment and employment growth created through the HOPE II Act. To effectively address these issues, the project adopts a comprehensive approach with targeted interventions both at the national and sectoral level. At the national level the project will enable the ILO constituents to assess the labour legislation’s compliance with ILO conventions. The project will also strengthen the institutional capacities of the labour administration and constituents to improve compliance with national labour law and facilitate increased social dialogue. In this perspective, the project will seek to support the labour inspectors to carry out more effectively their duties. It will also support the development of information access and management among the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, as well as among the main trade union federations (CSH, CTH, MOISE). In order to ensure the sustainability of the project, agreements will made by the project with the relevant partners in order to ensure that any equipment purchased under its auspices will contribute to the implementation of mutually agreed activities. At the sectoral level the project will sensitize employers and managers on the relevance of workers rights and the importance of social dialogue at the enterprise level. The project will also empower workers through education regarding worker organisations and organization strategies and facilitate a greater understanding of the role of worker organisations in the workplace. The project design serves another important purpose. It lays a solid foundation for further actions foreseen by ILO tripartite constituents, which are aimed at achieving compliance with the labour provisions of the HOPE II legislation. Such actions, in particular the Better Work Programme, would be of critical importance for the eligibility of Haitian garment producers to continue to receive the trade preferences granted under HOPE II.
Creating networks and new public-private partnerships (PPPs) on decent work in Italy for an enhanced technical cooperation model The Project strategy aims at creating networks and new public-private partnerships (PPPs) on decent work in Italy for an enhanced technical cooperation model in which the public and private sectors collaborate on technical cooperation projects and programmes which have the ultimate goal of promoting Decent Work and its strategic objectives in developing countries.
Programa regional para la extension de la proteccion social en la subregion Andina Objetivo general: Contribuir a aumentar la cobertura de los sistemas de proteccion social en Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador y Peru, con énfasis en los trabajadores de la economia informal y la perspectiva de genero. Resultados esperados: Al finalizar el Programa, se habran conseguido los siguientes resultados: (a) las instituciones de seguridad social y actores sociales contaran con diagnosticos nacionales de proteccion social (b) se habran disenado proyectos de fortalecimiento institucional a mediano plazo (c) gobierno, tabajadores, emplaedores y actores sociales habran sido capacitados en extension de proteccion social; habran participado en dialogo social (d) habran sido identificado, socializadoas y difundidas las brechas de proteccion social y las inequidades en los requisitos y prestaciones que desfavorecen a las mujeres (e) se habran promovido propuestas para integrar espacios institucionales de dialogo social (f) se habran desarrollado instrumentos para la administracion y difusion de informacion sobre proteccion social a nivel Subregional Andino (g) se habran disenado y puesto a cosideracion de la corriente legislativa de cada pais, proyectos para extender la proteccion social a grupos excluidos.
Strengthening cultural and creative industries and inclusive policies in Mozambique
Support the implementation of the MNE Declaration in the Mauritius through capacity building of constituents