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Enhancing Rural Access Agro-Forestry ("ERA Agro-Forestry"): Improving access to agro-forestry areas Timor-Leste is one of the least developed countries in the region. Its economy is essentially agriculture-based, with approximately 70% of its total population living in rural areas. These areas account for about 3/4 of the country’s poor. Agricultural productivity is low when compared with other countries in the region and suffers from insufficient diversification. A key constraint to economic development is the poor condition of rural infrastructure in general, and the rural road network in particular. A major portion of rural households continue to rely on subsistence farming and lack access to basic services such as health and education, proper sanitation and reliable water supply. Evidence from the work of rural road programmes, such as ERA and R4D, show the extent of the development potential of reliable transport access. When road access is improved and maintained, development does take place, facilitating the provision of basic services, an increase agricultural extension services leading to exports of agricultural produce, access to markets and an increase in other economic activities. Equally, the training of local contractors in executing rural road works has shown benefits beyond the confines of the project as these entrepreneurs continue to carry out public works elsewhere in the country. The overall objective of Partnership for Sustainable Agro-Forestry (PSAF) between Timor-Leste, the EU, Germany and ILO is to contribute to a peaceful, inclusive and sustainable development in Timor-Leste, through improved rural access, the creation of employment, economic and domestic revenue opportunities, and a durable reduction in food insecurity and malnutrition in rural areas. The PSAF has two Specific Objectives: Specific Objective 1 (SO1): "To develop a sustainable, market oriented, competitive and prosperous agro-forestry system in order to increase employment and income in rural areas" and Specific Objective 2 (SO2): "To implement a capacity building and labour-based programme to rehabilitate and maintain rural roads in order to improve access to the agro-forestry areas, employment and economic opportunities for local population". The ILO is responsible for the implementation of SO2, through the "Enhancing Rural Access Agro-Forestry Project" (‘ERA Agro-Forestry’) and is foreseen to yield the following results: 1. Improved market access, through rural roads being rehabilitated and maintained by local contractors, using labour based approach. 2. Skills of construction companies and local authorities improved.
JEMP "Jeunes et employabilité" - Appui au programme FORSATI The project aims to support the Tunisian constituents in implementing the recommendations of the resolution adopted by the 101st International Labour Conference held in June 2012, called “The youth employment crisis: A call for action”. The Resolution provides a portfolio of tried and tested measures in five areas: macro-economic policies, employability, labour market policies, youth entrepreneurship, and rights at work. This project aims at bringing about visible, short-to-medium term change in the labour market outcomes of young people and women in the North West of Tunisia. Its intervention focuses on two interlinked components (i) capacity building of labour market institutions and other key stakeholders at local and national levels, and (ii) coaching and capacity building of job seekers to increase their employability. The project will invest a significant amount of its resources in the recruitment of 88 coaches in order to respond to the needs of the government in human resources and expertise to improve the employability of job seekers, ensuring their accompanying individual process in the definition of their professional project and its implementation (in wage or self employment). In addition, the project will use the services of suitable NGOs or private service providers experienced in identification/selection, mentoring, training, activities execution and build their capacities where needed. This project will build both on methodologies developed by the ILO and the achievements and tools made available through past and ongoing ILO’s interventions on youth employment in Tunisia, notably: • “PROMESS’: Promotion des Organisations et Mécanismes de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire Funded by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. • “PEJTUN: Emplois décents pour la jeunesse tunisienne". This Danish-funded project works both at the national level and in the governorates of north-western Tunisia through a multi-dimensional and integrated approach to stimulate youth employment. • « Promouvoir l’emploi productif et le travail décent des jeunes en Algérie, Maroc, Mauritanie et Tunisie » funded by the Spanish government (AECID), • “La crise de l’emploi des jeunes: Un appel a l’action », funded by the Italian government. Both projects also provided technical assistance to ANETI to improve counselling and guidance strategies and tools.
Support GSP+ beneficiary countries to effectively implement ILS and comply with reporting obligations. Pakistan The project aims to support the application of ILO’s Fundamental Conventions and Human Rights in Pakistan by strengthening the institutional capacity of the national and provincial Governments to facilitate the enactment of relevant labour laws and effectively enforce existing relevant labour laws with ILO’s technical assistance. The intervention focuses particularly on enhancing the capacity of the Government and stakeholders on their respective reporting obligations, strengthening the capacity of the institutions for improved implementation of the existing policies and legislation; and producing relevant analytical analysis for effective application of the Conventions and relevant labour legislation in the provinces. This project puts a particular emphasis on the implementation of the provisions of the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) and the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) with a view to addressing the comments made by the ILO supervisory bodies. In this regard, the project focuses on the improvement of the capacity of Federal and Provincial Statistical Departments and Provincial Labour Departments to mainstream gender in the data collection process and on the improvement of workers’ and employers’ organizations and National Human Rights Institutions in order to increase their advocacy capacity on equal opportunity and treatment in employment and discrimination in the world of work.
Innovación para el Desarrollo Equitativo en el Distrito Federal (IDEQ-DF-OIT) El proyecto tiene como objetivo general impulsar la generación de empleo formal y digno, el desarrollo productivo y la elevación de los niveles de bienestar familiar de productoras y artesanas de la Ciudad de México, y en paralelo, abrir una alternativa de ejercicio profesional y promoción del desarrollo equitativo para las y los estudiantes y personas egresadas universitarias del Distrito Federal, ambas, en lo sucesivo, personas universitarias. Además, como una opción para las y los jóvenes de origen mexicano que radican en el extranjero, como una alternativa de trabajo y de respaldo a su identidad nacional,
Women in Stem Workforce Readiness Program The ILO’s Women in STEM Workforce Readiness Program couples demand-led technical STEM skills and employability and enterprise-level leadership training to transition: 1) underprivileged female secondary or post-secondary TVET graduates into sustainable entry-level STEM positions with career prospects; 2) under-employed women in STEM-related fields upgrade their skills to move up to mid-level STEM employment; and 3) mid-level women working in STEM fields into leadership/managerial roles. Working in three industries in three countries – the electronics sector in Thailand, automotive / transport sector in Indonesia and IT-BPO sector in Philippines – these efforts will develop and institutionalize industry tools that will be integrated into the training programmes and human resource practices of training institutions supporting and firms in STEM-related industries. The project will seek to strengthen linkages between private sector firms in STEM sectors, social partner institutions and vocational training centers to ensure greater opportunity through higher entry, retention and advancement of women workers in STEM related positions.
Upgrading Water and Sanitation Systems Incorporating Skills-Based Training and Employment for Youth in Eloba-Affected Slum Communities This project proposal is pursuant to the need to expand basic sanitation, improve environmental conditions and hygiene, and promote youth employment in the slum communities of Monrovia. The proposal is made as an urgent component of the UN’s overall support to the implementation of the post-Ebola recovery strategy in Liberia. The project will constitute the first phase of a long term slum upgrading programme, which will help to strengthen resilience, and reduce vulnerability to Ebola outbreaks and other public health disasters in the urban areas of Liberia. The project has been conceived within the framework of the Joint UN programming approach with UN-Habitat, UNICEF and ILO as the main UN partners to collaborate with GoL partners, including the Ministry of Public Works, the Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, the Ministry of Gender and Social Development, the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) and the Liberia Water and Sewerage Corporation (LWSC). The project will employ the labor-intensive approach to implement the solid waste management component of the intervention. In addition, it will help build the capacity of Community Based Enterprises that will be responsible for environmental sanitation. By using this strategy, the project will not only contribute to local economic development in the project area, but will as well help ensure to some degree sustainability of the project. With regards the skills training component, established vocational centers in the project area will be engaged to conduct these training with technical supervision and support from the ILO.
Technical support on social protecion in Niger This projects aims at supporting the establishment of a national social protection floor that includes the informal economy. Particular emphasis will be placed on extending basic security for women and victims of slave labour and forced labour. The project will support national coordination mechanisms through tripartite dialogue, promote a coherent and coordinated strategy for the establishment of national social protection floor guarantees, examine the budgetary implications of social protection guarantees, and contribute to the better protection for victims of forced labour. Interventions will address three complementary dimensions: the preparation and adoption of a national strategy for a social protection floor; the translation of the strategy into coordinated programmes implemented by the government; and support to resource mobilization so that social security measures can be put in place. Work under this project will contribute to the achievement of the SDG targets 1.3, 10.2 and 5.a. and will be undertaken in partnership with UNICEF and the World Food Programme.
Towards comprehensive global guidance on developing and implementing bilateral labour migration arrangements (BLAs): Unpacking key obstacles to implementation in the African region This project will contribute to a strengthened global guidance and architecture to govern labour mobility through bilateral labour migration arrangements as a tangible step towards effective implementation of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular migration (GCM), Sustainable Development Goals (targets 8.8 and 10.7), African Union`s Vision 2063 and other relevant regional cooperation and development frameworks.
An integrated approach to re-establish the State Citizen link in Jubbaland and South West State of Somalia
International Study on Social Dialogue The goal of the Global Deal Flagship Report is to provide an international portrait of the state of social dialogue to identify challenges and opportunities, promote exchange of ideas and experiences, discuss joint projects and solutions and provide solid evidence to policy-makers and stakeholders. It will work as the follow-up for the Global Deal partnership gathering positive examples of work on social dialogue and sound industrial relations frompartners.. It will showcase the voluntary commitments to the Global Deal by partners. The Report will build a strong case for social dialogue as a fundamental driver of decent work, inclusive growth and sustainable development more broadly emphasising the Global Deal as a partnership in line with sustainable development goal 17 and as a concrete input to several other goals. It will identify policies and other measures that can enhance the positive contribution of social dialogue to sustainable development with a focus on decent work and inclusive growth.
Market systems development for Decent Work: the Lab - Phase II The LAB is A global initiative of the International Labour Organization (ILO) that tests, scales and shares strategies to maximize the impact of market systems development interventions on Decent Work. By understanding the market incentives to improve working conditions for women and men in advanced developing countries, the LAB identifies innovative ‘win-win’ solutions that lead to growth and improved competitiveness at the same time as boosting job quality for vulnerable populations. Bridging the worlds of research and practice, the goal is to learn through impact measurement and to take actions that catalyse better jobs and sustainably. The LAB’s bottom line is to deliver more and better jobs through improved market systems. This second phase of the LAB has a particular focus on value chains such as agri-business export commodities, tourism, manufacturing and construction that that have a high waged labour potential, but still face considerable poverty and development problems. The LAB is also focused on mainstreaming knowledge into both the ILO and SECO such that both organisations will continue to develop and implement sound, sustainable and scalable programmes, which addressing market incentives to tackle decent work challenges, without continued support from the LAB. The LAB’s four product lines and results areas available to support SECO-funded activities, both inside and outside the ILO, are: 1. Analysis. Market research and analysis - Understanding the business case for improving working conditions, and the underlying sector constraints inhibiting decent work outcomes. 2. Action. Market systems interventions - Supporting interventions to improve selected decent work deficits, through cost-sharing, convening actors, brokering relationships and providing technical advice. 3. Learning. Working conditions impact evaluations - Measuring, evaluating and reflecting on what’s working, and why, to adjust strategies and document knowledge. 4. Sharing. Knowledge products - Generating global public goods on proven business models and market analysis methodology, disseminated through running events and supporting communication between practitioners and policymakers. Such analyses, interventions, and evaluations are gender inclusive, where possible, to help identify the various challenges to, and opportunities to address, decent work through a gender sensitive lens.
PILOT IMPLEMENTATION OF SCORE PROGRAMME IN TURKEY This new implementation targeting the H&M Suppliers in Turkey will take place as an additional component to the ongoing pilot implementation of SCORE Programme in Turkey project. It will specifically target 10 supplier enterprises of H&M in two different provinces in Turkey. One of the province will be Istanbul and the second province will be decided in consultancy between H&M and ILO Turkey. The implementation for H&M suppliers will focus on two modules of the SCORE Programme which are Module 1: Workplace Cooperation and Module 5: Safety and Health at Work: A platform for Productivity. This new component will target creation and strengthening of local capacities for SCORE implementation on Module 5: Safety and Health at Work as well as improvement of productivity of selected H&M supplier enterprises through improvement of working conditions in these enterprises by the SCORE trainings and in-factory consultancies.
Microinsurance client value assessment and evaluation of the Central America Disaster Microinsurance Expansion (CADME) Project Insurance is a risk management tool that can provide relevant protection to households to better face the materialization of risks. If insurance is well designed and operated it should achieve its social and economic development objective and be one of the components of the vulnerability reduction for families and entrepreneurs. Therefore the assessment of value of insurance products becomes a relevant mechanism to make sure that insurance achieves its purpose. This collaboration assesses and evaluates the pertinence of the microinsurance scheme that is being implemented by MiCRO in terms of the client value for intended end beneficiaries. It assesses whether the scheme has been relevant (or is assessed to be relevant for the future) by the end users. To do so the ILO implements a PACE analysis on the MiCRO catastrophe insurance product being implemented by Banrural and Aseguradora Rural in Guatemala. Additionally, the ILO carries out an evaluation that covers the overall CADME program 2014-2017 in Guatemala and El Salvador. The evaluation reviews and assesses particularly the CADME program, but also takes into consideration: the structure and efficiency of the PPDP, role and support of SDC for policy dialogue, and socio-political context factors.
Regional fair migration project in the Middle East (FAIRWAY project) The ILO Fair Migration Agenda, which was endorsed by ILO’s tripartite constituents during the International Labour Conference of 2014, recognizes the Arab States as one of the main destination regions globally of migrant workers. Many of these migrant workers are low-skilled and face multiple decent work deficits. These include, but are not limited to 1) flawed recruitment, 2) unacceptable working conditions including in situations akin to forced labour, 3) ineffective dispute resolution and lack of access to justice, 4) limits on voice, representation, and social dialogue, and 5) discrimination of migrant workers. The project “Regional Fair Migration Project in selected Middle Eastern countries (FAIRWAY project)” aims to build on the momentum of the SDC-funded Migration Governance Network (MAGNET) project and other ILO projects in addressing the decent work deficits of migrant workers, promoting fair migration (including fair recruitment) and contributing to combating forced labour and trafficking for labour exploitation. It is informed by lessons from projects in the Arab States – the ILO MAGNET project in particular - and in origin countries in South Asia, and takes both a country-specific and regional approach. Country-specific work will be undertaken in the GCC countries Bahrain, Kuwait, and the UAE, and in the Mashreq countries Jordan and Lebanon, and initiatives will revolve around the plight of low-skilled migrant workers in sectors where they predominate, i.e. construction and domestic work. The two-and-a-half year project has a three-pronged strategy: promoting labour migration-related policy change for fair migration that is informed by evidence-based policy advice; supporting improved implementation of laws and policies by strengthening institutional mechanisms and operational modalities in the target countries; and building a more conducive environment for decent work of male and female migrant workers by addressing discriminatory attitudes and actions.
Actuarial valuations of the National Pension Fund and the National Social Insurance Fund as at 31 December 2015 Executive Summary The conduct of the Actuarial valuation as at 31 December 2016 is primarily aimed at assisting the Board of the National Pensions and Social Insurance Fund (NPSIF) in ensuring the long-term financial sustainability of the Fund. The Actuarial valuation is mandated by statute and its report is a public document which serves to inform stakeholders of the current and projected financial status of the Fund. The project covers actuarial valuation services for the old-age, disability and death to be provided by the Actuarial Services Unit of SOCPRO (SOC/ASU) and employment injury benefits to be provided by the Actuarial Services of the Global Employment Injury Programme of the Enterprises Department (ENT/GEIP). The Public Finance, Actuarial and Statistics Unit (SOC/PFACTS) and the Social Policy Unit (SOC/POL) of SOCPRO will also support the project for final clearance on conclusions and policy recommendations.
Andalucía - Apoyo a la Iniciativa Regional América Latina y el Caribe libre de Trabajo Infantil - Implementación del Modelo Predictor de Riesgo (PAIR IV) El proyecto, financiado por la Agencia Andaluza de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AACID), tiene como objetivo inmediato que las políticas públicas nacionales y regionales vinculadas a la prevención y erradicación del trabajo infantil y a la protección del trabajo adolescente permitido mejoren su grado de aplicación. Para ello promueve la implementación del Marco Acelerador de Políticas, una propuesta de intervención diseñada por la Iniciativa Regional América Latina y el Caribe libre de trabajo infantil, para acelerar el avance hacia el logro de la meta 8.7 de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible. La intervención, que da continuidad a un proceso iniciado en 2015, se concentra en brindar asistencia técnica a los países miembros de la Iniciativa, especialmente en la aplicación experimental del Modelo de Identificación de Riesgo de Trabajo Infantil, una herramienta estadística que permite: 1) identificar los territorios con mayores probabilidades de trabajo infantil y 2) estimar el peso de los factores asociadas a dicho riesgo. El resultado es una lista de zonas geográficas y grupos poblaciones en donde se deberían concentrar las intervenciones preventivas, de carácter multisectorial. El proyecto de AACID se complementa con fondos provenientes de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), que permiten fortalecer y ampliar el alcance de la asistencia que la OIT brinda a los 28 países miembros de la Iniciativa Regional y a los interlocutores sociales en incidencia política, fortalecimiento de capacidades en gestión de políticas públicas, promoción de la cooperación Sur – Sur y triangular e intercambio de experiencias e innovación, generación y gestión del conocimiento.
Promoting disability inclusion in HIV, sexual and reproductive health and social protection The project focuses on promoting disability inclusion in HIV, sexual and reproductive health services, with a particular emphasis on women and girls with disabilities, and linkages to social protection in Mansa and Samfya Districts in Luapula Province. HIV and sexual and reproductive health are highly underestimated aspects of the lives of people with disabilities reflecting in severe health outcomes. However, without the access to social protection, health services alone are not enough to support people out of poverty and enable inclusion in societies.