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Promoting the Regional Integrated Child Labour Resource Centre in Africa and eliminating unacceptable forms of work for children in Africa (CLIC-Africa) A Regional Integrated Child Labour Resource Centre (CLIC-Africa) established in November 2012, to support the development of national capacity (including on labour inspection and child labour monitoring), ownership and commitment on child labour issues. The CLIC-Africa, besides supporting the development of National Action Plans, aims to produce training and advocacy materials and disseminate to ILO constituents to support their efforts in implementing NAPs. As a regional knowledge hub, CLIC-Africa also aims at facilitating knowledge sharing on child labour and related issues, including national and regional good practices. In this regard, the CLIC-Africa will serve as an information clearing house on child labour issues. It also provides technical support for mobilizing resources. This “virtual” technical support facility is composed of a small core team based in the Regional Office for Africa, and specialists from ILO technical teams at regional and headquarters levels. In view of the above, the setting up of a system that is considers legal compliance, meanwhile improving wages and working conditions for better productivity and gains (versus a system only based on low labour cost and productivity) is both important and necessary in guiding the sourcing decisions of private companies. Complying with the International Labour Standards - such as conventions related to Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), Minimum wage, Child Labour and other fundamental principles and rights at work - is instrumental to protect workers (including working children and youth) in Africa and ensure fair and sustainable growth in Africa. To that effect, raising awareness on the core labour standards and highlighting issues such as occupational safety and health, the importance of labour inspections, and the importance of setting and enforcing the general minimum age to employment and the age for hazardous work as stipulated in ILO Convention 138 and 182, are really beneficial and will be supported to enhancing the fair competitiveness for the investors and also a conducive labour environment in Africa region and in the core country.
Support GSP + beneficiary countries to effectively implement ILS and comply with reproting obligations - Philippines The project aims to support the Philippines in addressing the critical issues contained in the comments of ILO Supervisory bodies on the implementation of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98). This project incorporates relevant recommendations from an ILO mission in relation to civil liberties and trade union rights, seeks to strengthen compliance with Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining rights in the context of expanded trade and investments and seeks to establish peaceful industrial relations. The intervention includes trainings, awareness-raising activities and workshops to promote these rights with a view to improve the capacity of the national administration and of employers’ and workers’ organizations to implement mechanisms that apply social dialogue and tripartism.
Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) phase III – Myanmar The ILO SCORE Programme is assisting governments, industry associations and trade unions in Africa, Asia and Latin America to develop export and domestic industrial sectors, with a particular focus on competitiveness and decent work in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Its main intervention is SCORE Training, a practical training and in-factory consulting programme that improves productivity and working conditions in SMEs and helps them to participate in global supply chains. Phase III is focusing on embedding SCORE Training in programmes and budgets of implementation partners and lead buyers using SCORE Training to develop their SME suppliers. The programme will operate in China, Indonesia, India, Viet Nam, Myanmar, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia with financial support from the Governments of Switzerland (SECO) and Norway (NORAD).
Promoción y cumplimiento de los Principios y Derechos Fundamentales en el trabajo en Brasil El presente proyecto se inscribe en el marco del Acuerdo de Cooperación celebrado en agosto de 2016 entre el Ministerio Público del Trabajo (MPT) de Brasil y la OIT (Oficina en Brasil) para el desarrollo de acciones conjuntas con recursos provenientes de multas e indemnizaciones destinadas a reparar los bienes jurídicos tutelados en el ámbito de las relaciones de trabajo. El Proyecto busca ofrecer un marco estratégico, programático y de gestión para la implementación de acciones conjuntas dirigidas a promover una efectiva vigencia de los principios y derechos fundamentales en el trabajo. Para ello se actuará en cuatro áreas estratégicas: i) el empoderamiento de grupos vulnerables y víctimas de las violaciones de los principios y derechos fundamentales en el trabajo para la defensa de sus derechos; ii) el fortalecimiento de políticas y programas de acceso a oportunidades de trabajo decente, renta y medios de vida para atender prioritariamente a dichos grupos; iii) la promoción de cadenas productivas sostenibles, libres de formas inaceptables de trabajo; y iv) el fortalecimiento y la articulación de redes de protección social y garantía de derechos. El proyecto focalizará sus acciones en las áreas geográficas consideradas prioritarias por la incidencia de violaciones de los principios y derechos fundamentales en el trabajo, en las zonas de origen de los principales grupos vulnerables y de víctimas de estos ilícitos, así como en los ámbitos por donde pasan los flujos de trabajo de las cadenas productivas social y económicamente relevantes.
Supporting Sustainable, Child Labor Free Vanilla-Growing Communities in Sava This project “Supporting Sustainable, Child Labor Free Vanilla-Growing Communities in Sava” expresses the vision of the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative (SVI) and their national and international partners for a transformed vanilla sector in Madagascar. The project’s goal is to significantly reduce the prevalence of child labor in Sava and more than that, to contribute to vanilla becoming a source of prosperity for vanilla-growing communities through fair and sustainable livelihoods for small-holder vanilla farmers and their families and decent work for adults and youth of legal working age.
Promotion of Youth Employment in Albania Policy Initiative – Improved social dialogue leads to active employment and skills development policies and decent work for men and women. Technical assistance will be provided by ILO to the MoSWY to: --- prepare the NESS’ Action Plan, including financial instruments, policy coordination mechanisms, monitoring procedures, and clear definition of roles and responsibilities; --- offer technical support to NESS and NAVETQ in the framework of the TVET reform and the modernization of employment services, with an emphasis on building the institutional capacity for the implementation of the NESS 2014-2020; --- design new interventions based on the NESS 2014-2020 as part of the EU IPA II cycle; --- assure the sustainability of the main results achieved by the IPA 2010 Project on Human Resources Development, bridging interventions with the new programmes to be developed in the upcoming years; --- mobilize additional donor resources for the implementation of NESS. UN WOMEN will be engaged in advocating with Government and supporting the development of the amendments to the Labor Code and related legislation to strengthen women’s rights in the workplace. Key deliverables which the DRT-F will contribute towards (include UN Entities to implement): To be implemented by ILO: - Roadmap on how to implement the NESS 2014-2020, monitoring procedures and definition of mid-term reviews and targets. - A Sectoral Approach document is finalized by MoSWY with technical support of the ILO experts and consulted with the main stakeholders for further approval by the European Commission, including qualitative and quantitative indicators. - Technical advice provided for the development of a coherent approach between the strategic planning of MoSWY underpinned in the NESS 2014-2020 and the programing of the IPA II future interventions. - Technical assistance provided to support the development of the labour force survey methodology To be implemented by UN Women: - Advocate for and support amendments to the Labor Code and related legislation to strengthen women’s rights in the workplace
South-south and triangular cooperation to reinforce decent youth employment through work-based learning The project helps address skills mismatch and high youth unemployment through promotion of work-based learning (WBL) in the target countries (i.e. Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria). It implements twofold strategies: 1) promotion of evidence-based social dialogue for the improvement of WBL systems; and 2) regional cooperation and peer-to-peer learning. The current WBL system in each country will be analysed with a view to strengthening labour market relevance of WBL through enhancing employers’ engagement, which will help social dialogue and forge shared visions to improve the system. Since the target countries are at a similar stage of development with comparable socio-economic conjunctures, peer-to-peer learning is an effective intervention to counter skills mismatch in the region.
Capacity Building of Community Managed Resource Centres for Small and Micro Enterprise Development To strengthen capacities of Community Managed Resource Centres (CMRCs) being supported by the Maharashtra Arthik Vikas Mahamandal (MAVIM) to promote and strengthen women micro-enterprises through development of cadre of micro enterprise trainers.
Dévelopment des compétences sur les normes fondamentales du travail et le travail décent En vue d’initier le développement d’un partenariat durable entre l’AFD et le BIT, l’AFD a accepté fin 2014 d’appuyer le « Secrétariat international d’appui technique aux stratégies de protection sociale », dans son rôle de développement d’instruments d’évaluation des politiques de protection sociale dans les pays sollicitant l’appui de la communauté internationale. L’appui de l’AFD s’est inscrit en complément de celui du Ministère des affaires sociales, au nom du soutien que la France entend afficher à la promotion internationale des socles de protection sociale et aux schémas que le BIT promeut. Le partenariat développé en 2015 (convention du 31 juillet 2015), s’articulait ainsi autour des axes Protection Sociale, pour l’appui à la mise en place d’une protection sociale universelle, et Emploi, pour la promotion d’initiatives en faveur du développement de l’emploi décent. Le volet développement des compétences sur les normes internationales du travail pour un travail décent (mis en œuvre par le Centre international de formation de l’OIT): 1. élaboration d’un module de formation en ligne d’introduction aux normes internationales du travail. Ce module illustré, d’une vingtaine de minutes devra permettre à l’auditeur de bien comprendre quelles sont les normes fondamentales du travail, et par extension les normes internationales du travail; 2. la conception et l’animation conjointes de 2 modules de formation avec des études de cas pratiques traitant des 2 thèmes suivants : travail des enfants et santé et sécurité au travail (règles d’hygiène sécurité, prévention des risques professionnels). Les modules se dérouleront chacun sur une journée; Ces formations pourront être ensuite répliquées et/ou utilisées vis-à-vis d’auditeurs internes et externes par le CEFEB et le CIF de l’OIT. Un appui complémentaire de la DAEI permettrait le développement et la gestion de l’outil permettant d’évaluer les risques de non application des NIT dans les pays.
Better Work Viet Nam: Promoting Core International labour standards and compliance in the garment sector (2) The project seeks to strengthen social dialogue among the tripartite partners (government, employer and employee organizations) in the Vietnamese garment sector, and boost the capacity of both these partners and factories themselves to meet core international labour standards, particularly regarding freedom of association and collective bargaining. More concretely, the project provides strategic and operational guidance and training to the social partners and the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, with a particular focus on increasing respect for aforementioned international labour standards. This work is of particular relevance in the coming years, as stakeholders seek expert support to help them adapt to the new trade and labour governance landscape expected under the forthcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. The project comprises two components: 1. Support to social partners, i.e. PAC, MOLISA, VGCL and VCCI 2. Direct support to Better Work factories
Supporting the implementation of sustainable social protection floors for the workers and their families in ASEAN (phase II) To support the implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on strengthening social protection the ILO Regional Office in Bangkok has developed a two-tiered strategy: 1) Support the development of a common social protection denominator in all ASEAN Member States, by: a. providing recommendations for the progressive development of social protection in all countries, building national social protection strategies; b. providing comments and inputs to social security laws and ensuring that these facilitate access to social protection for all uncovered groups, including migrant workers; c. supporting the design and implementation of social protection schemes, to ensure that all Member States guarantee at least a minimum level of social protection to their citizens, residents, documented and non-documented migrant workers. This common denominator will contribute to the progressive harmonisation of the levels of development in social protection and avoid “free riding” strategies among migrants (e.g. trying to use most advanced social protection services without contributing to their financing). 2) Support specific protection for migrant workers (both documented and non-documented) by: a. documenting all social protection systems in ASEAN countries; b. ensuring that social security laws are non-discriminatory for migrant workers; c. ensuring that procedures and tools are in place to guarantee access to the benefits in the country of destination, and that bilateral agreements are established between social security institutions to facilitate portability of benefits across countries. The present project will focus on the first part of this strategy, and aims at supporting the development of a common social protection denominator in all ASEAN Member States by conducting three complementary actions: - Design of social security schemes and social protection floor components - Implementation through SWS and IT systems - Documentation, research, training, awareness raising, education
Indicators and methodologies for wage setting Effective wage-setting institutions, particularly minimum wages and collective bargaining, can help to ensure a just and equitable share of the fruits of progress to all. But negotiating and determining an adequate level of wages is a difficult undertaking that requires a balanced and evidence-based approach which ensures effective protection for workers and their families as well as the development of sustainable enterprises. This balance is important to ensure that social justice and economic progress go hand in hand. The present project seeks to develop indicators and methodologies that will strengthen the capacity of governments and social partners to negotiate and set adequate wage levels, which take into account both the needs of workers and their families as well as economic factors. The methodologies and tools developed at the global level in this project will be tested in about 4-5 countries which have requested technical assistance from the ILO on wage policies in 2018-19 and for which CPOs have been created under the P&B Outcome 1 (More and better jobs for inclusive growth and improved youth employment prospects), Indicator 1.5 (Number of member states that have formulated or adopted policies, programmes or other measures to improve labour relations, labour market institutions and working conditions). Indicators developed and tested in this project will subsequently be incorporated in the ILO technical toolkit for future ILO support to member states on wage fixing. This activity will be complemented with studies and tools to assess the effect of higher labour cost on production costs at different levels within global supply chains. The dissemination of this information will enable committed industry wide initiatives or enterprises to use their purchasing practices to leverage better wages for the lowest paid workers in their supply chain.
Statistical profile of young NEETs The proposal aims to use innovative techniques and tools to engage youth, gather data, and demonstrate how data can be used to enable youth to take control over their own and communities’ future, especially in remote areas of municipalities that are under-served.
Promoting a model for sustainable livelihoods and social cohesion in Bassikounou Moughata through on-site construction training Sustainable local economic development in Bassikounou Moughata, an isolated and very poor region in south-east Mauretania, is indispensable for social cohesion considering the increasing number of Malian refugees in the region. Mbera Camp located in Bassikounou Moughata hosts more than 50,000 Malian refugees, where 96.0% of refugees in the country stay and receive humanitarian assistance since 2012. Despite the conclusion of a peace agreement in Mali in June 2015, large-scale returns of refugees are not yet expected due to the widespread insecurity in northern and central Mali. The Government of Mauritania continues to keep its borders open to new influxes, and there were 4,293 new arrivals from Mali while voluntary returns to Mali was limited to 713 in 2017. In January 2018 alone, the camp hosted 1,187 new arrivals (as of 31 Jan 2018, UNHCR). In this context, local communities and refugees in Bassikounou Moughata are in need of transition from short-term humanitarian assistance to the integration of mid-term socioeconomic development. Localization of economic activities, including promoting the use of local resources, creating local employment opportunities and responding to the climate change and local socioeconomic contexts, will be key to sustainable development. Young refugees and the local youth will be key players in this transition as the youth between the ages of 15-24 comprises 15.2% of the total population in Mbera Camp and more than 40% of the population in both Mbera Camp and Bassikounou are at the active working age (37.29% is between the age of 18-59 in Mbera Camp, 49% between the ages of 15-64 in Bassikounou). The project aims to achieve the following results: Objective 1. Young women and men from different communities, including both refugees and the local youth, improve employability and simultaneously gain work experience by completing on-site construction training in employment-intensive construction works which focuses on practical exercise and qualifies with certification. Objective 2. Infrastructures, identified as key for local economic development and services based on value-chain and market analysis, are constructed by the youth with the maximum use of local materials to create decent employment opportunities and promote local economic activities ensuring the nexus between humanitarian assistance and development. Objective 3. Local economic development is promoted by improved local enterprise support through better organization and participation of cooperatives, local groups, civil society and local enterprises.
Promoting Labour Rights and Decent Work for the Informal Economy in Rwanda The core problem of lack of access to labour rights, particularly in the informal economy, will be addressed through promoting formalization, awareness raising and compliance through social dialogue, and will be demonstrated in two sub-sectors with large prevalence of women and youth. The informal economy employs around 88% of the Rwandan workforce. This presents a major challenge to inclusive growth and development and has a negative impact on sustainable enterprises, productive employment, the attainment of decent work, government revenue and fair competition. Grounded in a rights-based approach, the project will support advocacy efforts to make formalization a priority in the national policy agenda. It will enhance the capacity of constituents to undertake diagnoses of the informal economy, inform the design of relevant strategies and monitor progress towards formalization. The project will work with the ILO constituents and the cooperative movement to create a much higher degree of awareness of labour rights and obligations through sensitization workshops and a mass media campaign. A key expected output is strengthened capacity of the labour inspectorate, and employers’ and workers’ organizations, leading to measurable improvements in workplace compliance with national labour laws, applicable regulations, collective agreements and ratified international labour standards – to the extent possible also among the informal enterprises.
Advocacy for Rights and Good Corporate Governance (UNNATI-Inclusive Growth Programme in Nepal) The project aims at improving advocacy for responsible business development including rights and good corporate governance. The project is a sub component 3.2 of the UNNATI- Inclusive Growth Programme in Nepal and has three complementary areas of implementation: • Building capabilities for advocacy and dialogue • Promoting sustainability • Promoting broad public awareness of the importance of responsible business including rights and corporate governance issues An advocacy Challenge Fund will be established and the project will run under the challenge fund model. The project is a sub component 3.2 of the UNNATI-Inclusive Growth Programme in Nepal and has three complementary areas of implementation: