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Building Better Industrial Relations for Sustainable Development The project aims to contribute to ensuring decent work through peaceful industrial relations for sustainable development with a view to creating virtuous cycle between better productivity, competitiveness and better working conditions. The project plans to develop a multi-pronged approach to address industrial relation challenges at – national, sectoral and enterprise level. a) At the national level, a. Raise awareness on labour legislation in order to enhance effective implementation of the ratified Conventions. This will be done through tripartite/bipartite seminars, advisory missions, expert advice and the development and provision of advocacy materials. b. Strengthening institutions that can facilitate sound industrial relations. This will be done through capacity building for workers’ and employers’ organizations; and the strengthening of administrative capacity for labour inspection and the resolution of labour disputes. c. Develop guidelines for tripartite/bipartite consultations to enhance the capacity of tripartite partners and other relevant stakeholders d. Enhance the Capacity of policy makers and legislators to align and implement policies with ratified conventions e. Strengthen tripartite institutions to address issues affecting workers and employers efficiently and effectively b) At the sectoral level a. Sectoral initiative will be undertaken to strengthen employers’ organisations/associations and trade unions to address issues of industrial relations, working conditions and productivity that are specific to each sector. c) At the enterprise level, a. Provide training on industrial relations through joint training of managers and workers on workplace cooperation and negotiations skills and on how to generate and share productivity gains. b. Assist in setting up workers and employers committees at the enterprise level to promote peaceful industrial relations c. Promote the implementation of the newly adopted OSH policy. d. Promote Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms and strengthen the capacity of institutions rendering ADR services including those in the private sector
Technical support on elimination of forced labour This project aims at supporting efforts for the elimination of forced labour in support of peace and development. The Ward or Village Tract Administration Law passed by Parliament in May 2012 makes the use of forced labour by any person a criminal offence punishable under the Penal Code. The legislation contains a definition of forced labour that is in conformity with the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105), but implementation and enforcement gaps remain. The focus will be to continue the operation of Forced Labour complaints mechanism, resolution of cases and protection of complainants and their families. In addition, efforts will be made to extend the outreach of this complaints mechanism throughout the country, particularly in ethnic areas which were previously less accessible. Capacity building of partner organizations will be developed to ensure longer term sustainability of the operations of the Forced Labour Complaints Mechanism. Support will be provided to national counterparts for the implementation of the forced labour components of the Framework for ILO Engagement in Myanmar.
PBF Joint Programme: Prevent the recruitment and use of children by armed forces / groups in Myanmar as an entry point for durable peace
Fostering an enabling environment for livelihoods development in vulnerable and at risk communities through entrepreneurship and microenterprise skills For many men and women of working age, entrepreneurship and employment in micro-enterprises can provide pathways to decent work and are often the most, or only, accessible source of employment. However, the informality of most micro-enterprises, limited social safety nets available for the self-employed, and low productivity and high failure rate among these firms has constrained the role the sector can play in social and economic development. In response to this situation, the ILO has (since 2014) supported more than 60 organizations across 16 countries to take up the Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED) programme, a low-cost, scalable, and participatory approach to skills development for entrepreneurship and business improvement. While the peer-based, social learning methodology and decentralized implementation model introduced by ILO has enabled the programme to be scaled up rapidly across the region and by a wide-variety of partners, work is now required to foster formal networks of technical cooperation and collaboration between institutions/organizations and to pursue entry points for integrating the decent work agenda into policy and programming actions being moved forward. This project aims at strengthening the ILO’s value as a technical and strategic partner to institutions and organizations implementing the programme by developing the capacity of these partners to provide, sustain, and scale up interventions that improve livelihoods opportunities and decent work in vulnerable and at risk communities through entrepreneurship and micro-enterprise development. Through research, surveillance, and evaluation, the project supports social partners to make evidence-based policy and programming decisions. Trainees reached from vulnerable and at-risk communities develop the capacity to start or improve micro-enterprises along with the soft skills needed to be an effective problem solver, to analyse business opportunities objectively, and to communicate, network, lead, and evaluate activities with others. The specific project objectives include: 1. Institutions/organizations are better able to identify needs and take action to plan, program and deliver sustainable skills training services for entrepreneurs and micro-enterprises; 2. Training and support services for entrepreneurs and self-employed workers/micro-enterprises in vulnerable and at-risk communities are more accessible through closer coordination and collaboration among institutions and organisations; 3. Evidence-based policy and programming decisions are used to promote transition to the formal economy, social protection, enterprise sustainability, and decent work standards in the MSE sector.
Entrepreneurship Development and SME support in Myanmar The NORAD funded Entrepreneurship and SME support in Myanmar project is a 3.5 year project to support job creation in start-ups, micro and small enterprises in Myanmar in both urban and rural areas. The project will provide SME support institutions and BDS providers with the tools and capacities to roll out ILOs Start and Improve your Business (SIYB) management training and other start-up and enterprise support products for women and men. As Myanmar is coming out of a long period of isolation and there is a weak SME support structure in place, the project will furthermore raise the awareness about entrepreneurship as an employment option and the possibility of access to services. It will establish linkages with financial service providers and NGOs active in rural areas. The project expects to contribute to the start-up of 1000 enterprises and to the creation of 3000 jobs. The project will be complemented by a sister project funded by SECO to support management capacity in the tourism sector.
Inequalities and the world of work: what contribution of industrial relations and social dialogue? A particular attention will be paid to the contribution of social partners and social dialogue to striking a renewed balance between flexibility and security for both the employers and the workers. All European countries have put in place a number of labour market reforms with the emergence of new forms of employment contracts that brought more flexibility but also less stability in the employment relationship. The balance between flexibility and security has thus evolved. Working conditions have also been affected. Collective bargaining coverage, mechanisms and contents have also been progressively transformed along the changes in the labour market, in working conditions and the evolving economic and social context. The roles of actors, in particular of workers' and employers' representatives, have also been challenged and transformed. Based upon these trends, the purpose of the project will be to document best practices in the way social dialogue contributes to achieving the best possible outcomes in the balance between flexibility and security. For instance, what are the examples of social partner involvement in long term transformations with optimal outcomes in terms of flexibility-security balance and inequality and vulnerability at work? For doing so, significant research will be carried out to further explore the link between social dialogue indicators (collective bargaining coverage, trade union density, collective agreements, but also tripartite consultations etc.), social dialogue mechanisms (levels of collective bargaining/collective agreements, extension mechanisms, renewal of collective agreements etc.) and indicators of inequalities in the world of work. The key aim of this project will be to identify best practices that may have emerged over most recent years. What countries did succeed to carry out the necessary reforms without generating further inequalities? What type of industrial relations systems seem to be more performing to reach such outcome? What type of policy measures, institutions, and actors do play a determinant role, and in particular the social partners and social dialogue? This project will also evaluate the outcome for –and potential role of– social partners and social dialogue, and directly contribute to the work that the European Commission is doing on industrial relations, on increasing the role of social partners in major policies and reforms as part of the European Semester and on improving the contribution of social dialogue to socio-economic outcomes. On the basis of such a comparative and comprehensive assessment of major developments at national level, policy issues will be discussed with the aim to carefully identify ways to develop social dialogue that will help to carry out the necessary transformations without generating further inequalities and social exclusion.
Fostering competitiveness and innovation of Montenegro through sustainable economic growth policies Outcome: (Outcome 3.3 as found in the Joint Workplan) Established system for strengthening entrepreneurial capacity building and facilitating private sector partnerships for ‘green jobs,’ rural livelihoods and development of Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises (MSME) in order to improve economic choices and achieve balanced regional growth as well as address gender specific concerns and interests. Output level: (as found in Joint Workplan) National policy framework on improving the business environment through green jobs, cluster development and institution building strengthened through the following programmes (as found in 2016 Annual Workplan) Participating agencies: UNIDO, UNDP, ILO, UNCTAD
Building on Initiatives and strengthening partnerships to Tackle Child Labour through Education (TACKLE) in Fiji The overall objective of the Building on Initiatives and strengthening partnerships to Tackle Child Labour through Education (TACKLE) in Fiji (FIJ/14/01/EEC) is to sustain efforts to progressively eliminate child labour, including the worst forms of child labour in Fiji. The purpose of the project is to strengthen the capacity of national and local authorities to formulate, implement and enforce policies to fight child labour in coordination with social partners and civil society. The project will strengthen mechanisms for the Government, unions and employers as central focal points for child labour to dialogue, ensure ownership and mainstream child labour elimination into relevant national policies, strategies and programmes. In particular, the project will support direct actions to target children in child labour and at risk and ensure they have access to education, skills training and rehabilitation support. The two key elements of the project are to (i) strengthen the enabling environment for the national and local partners to enforce policies and programmes on child labour, and (ii) to implement direct actions to withdraw children from child labour and prevent and protect children at risk, will be interlinked and interdependent.
Supporting the strategic objectives of the London Syria Conference 2016 As a direct follow up to the London Syria Conference, the UK, as part of our international commitments, pledged to build economic opportunities and create job opportunities for Syrian refugees and vulnerable people in host countries. This project directly supports this commitment. At the end of the project, at least 5,000 Syrians and vulnerable Jordanians will have benefited from an easier access to decent work in agriculture and construction because of (a) job matching and skills development services; (b) improved regulatory framework and compliance activities; (c) joint business ventures for these two sectors (agriculture related products and constructions).
Baseline Survey on labour migration in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam Executive Summary This project is a part of the RAS/16/50/IOM regional (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia and Lao PDR) TRIANGLE II project (2015-2025) with the overall goal of maximizing the contribution of labour migration to equitable, inclusive and stable growth in ASEAN, in that it serves to provide the regional project with a baseline survey. The survey is conducted jointly by ILO and IOM.
Better Factories Cambodia – Dutch contribution The project “Better Factories Cambodia – Dutch contribution” contributes to improving lives of workers, their families, communities and competitiveness in the Cambodian garment and footwear factories. It aims to: • Strengthen capacity of the Cambodian exporting factories in the garment and footwear sectors to improve compliance with the labour law; • Strengthen its engagement with the Cambodian government to improve their capacity to identify non-compliance issues, strengthen enforcement and uphold labour standards; • Strengthen 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; • Use BW experience and data to inform and influence practices and policies related to responsible business practices in the industry; and • Strengthen BW governance and management for increased sustainability.
Technical support on SMEs in Bolivia This project aims at assisting workers’ and employers’ organizations to elaborate, propose, discuss and implement public policies to improve labour conditions, productivity and the enabling environment to generate decent work and productive employment. The project follows-up on the recommendations of the report for Bolivia prepared using the Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises (EESE) tool, covering a broad spectrum of issues affecting enterprises such as the legal and regulatory environment, as well as social and economic factors. Additionally, the intervention will expand and provide sustainability to the implementation of SCORE (Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises) in Bolivia, a practical training and in-factory counselling programme that improves productivity and working conditions in small and medium enterprises. The implementation strategy is based on social dialogue and on the active participation of the social partners as well as relevant ministries such as the Ministry of Production. The project is being developed with a gender perspective promoting the participation of women in the activities and social dialogue.
Technical Support on Working Conditions This project aims at improving the working conditions of women in the labour market. Despite ratification of Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) and the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), the legal framework in Jordan remains weak in guaranteeing equal rights to women at work. The initiative will be implemented at the national level, with some activities focusing on three regions selected on the basis of information on the gender pay gap and available child care services. In addition, the interventions will focus on empowering workers in the private education sector by strengthening their negotiation skills and helping them to campaign and claim their right to equal pay and childcare; addressing gender-blind HR systems; and engaging private sector schools and companies in collective dialogue towards better wages and working conditions. Employers and HR managers in seven private schools will be enabled to design and apply gender sensitive remuneration systems and HR policies. Fair remuneration systems and non-discrimination policies will be adopted by ten private schools, and access to day care facilities for working parents will be secured in ten private institutions that employ at least 100 women.
Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) The strategy of this programme is to reach out to ultimate beneficiaries: young mend and women between 15-35 years old that are involved in emerging and established enterprises via its intermediate/direct beneficiaries; government and non-governmental organisations as well as private sector representatives with a mandate to promote youth employment through enterprise development, among them business development services providers and other training institutions and organisations offering business start-up and growth training and advisory services to young women and men. The project will undertake various activities clustered in five categories based on ILO experience in Uganda: - the activity cluster on media campaign products; - the activity cluster on revising the curricula; - the activity cluster on providing evaluation support and conducting evaluation clinics; - the activity cluster on the competitive grant scheme for youth; - the activity cluster on providing business development support for start up and expansion of enterprises owned and managed by youth.
Contribution to the independent evaluation of the evaluation function This evaluation will provide recommendations for a new evaluation strategy aligned with ILO’s Strategic Plan (2018-2021) and the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda.
Technical Support on Social Protection Floors This project aims at improving the protection of workers, including those in the informal economy, through more inclusive social protection policies and institutions. The ILO will assist the Government in the process of formulating and implementing a national policy and strategy for social protection that it has embarked upon and will provide support to the tripartite plus Task Force established for that purpose. Interventions will include the preparation of an action plan for the implementation of a national social protection strategy, strengthening of the institutional and legal framework for the establishment of a social protection floor, and capacity building for the tripartite constituents and other stakeholders. Emphasis will be placed on the application of the Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No.102) and the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), the ratification of other relevant occupational safety and health standards, and on the promotion of the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204). The work will be undertaken in close cooperation with the UN agencies and donors that are members of the Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B) as well as with the UN Economic Commission for Africa. It will contribute to the achievement of SDG targets 1.3, 3.8, 5.4 and 10.4.
Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains - Phase II The development objective of the project is to improve the lives of workers and increase decent work opportunities in the global garment sector supply chain, starting with beneficiary countries. The immediate objectives of Phase 2 of the project are: 1. Mechanisms for participatory and evidence-based minimum wage-fixing and collective bargaining will have been strengthened in the target countries. 2. Systems for assuring labour standards compliance at the factory level will have improved in the target countries. 3. The institutional capacity of tripartite partners to respond to labour standards challenges in the global garment sector supply chain will have improved. The project will work towards these objectives by undertaking interventions at three levels: factory, national, and global.
Promoting and building social protection in Asia (3rd phase): Extending social security coverage in ASEAN There is globally and in the Asia Pacific region a growing consensus that the establishment of social protection floors is a key element of the policy framework to reduce poverty and inequalities and achieve inclusive and sustainable development. It is at the core of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. During the past decade, ASEAN countries have made progress in extending social protection, with the emergence of statutory schemes in all ASEAN countries. However, coverage and level of protection across the population and across countries remain unequal and insufficient. There is still a need for improving policy and institutional framework for the effective and efficient delivery of social protection. In October 2013, ASEAN Heads of State adopted a Declaration on Strengthening Social Protection, pledging for the completion of social protection floors as a priority to achieve growth with equity. The Regional Framework for Strengthening Social Protection and its Plan of Action, adopted by the ASEAN Heads of State in November 2015, includes among its priorities the extension of social security coverage among informal economy workers, selfemployed and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) workers. Building on the achievements of the past two phases of the ILO/Japan Project on Promoting and Building Social Protection in Asia (2011-2013 and 2014-2016), and the solid partnership with ASEAN Member States,1 a third phase of the Project is here proposed, as a component too of the ILO’s Global Social Protection Programme. The new phase aims specifically at fostering knowledge, capacity and expertise for extending social security coverage in ASEAN. The project intends to generate better knowledge, understanding and expertise on extension of social security, and stimulate South-South cooperation across ASEAN Member States. The project provides direct support to Indonesia and Viet Nam, and to a certain extend to Myanmar, for increasing social protection coverage. Lessons learnt, experiences and good practices from the three countries will be disseminated across the ASEAN Member States and worldwide.
Way out of informality: facilitating formalisation of informal economy in South Asia Large decent work deficits in the rapidly growing informal economy in the context of limited growth of formal sector employment is a major challenge for the constituents in South Asia in realizing decent work for all. The project intends to address the problem by facilitating formalization of informal businesses and workers, and discouraging informalization of the formal economy firms and jobs. It will facilitate a review of the policy and the regulatory incentives and disincentives of formalization/informalization, and promote a formal job growth through the application of a job-rich growth strategy and an integrated support to formalization in selected target areas. The information campaigns directed to target beneficiaries as well as the capacity building of the concerned government institutions and social partners are essential. Good practices and relevant tools will be shared through consultation workshops and web-based platforms. Detailed planning and implementation at the local level will be guided through a participatory dialogue process.