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Application of Migration Policy for Decent Work of Migrant Workers This project builds on the success of “Promoting Decent Work through improved Migration Policy and its Application in Bangladesh”, operating from 2011-2015, which supported Bangladesh to launch and accelerate development in three areas: policy frameworks; operational effectiveness; and social protection. Application of Migration Policy for Decent Work of Migrant Workers builds on this foundation to support the Government to move into full implementation of its policies and its progressive new Overseas Employment and Migration Act, 2013. It will provide research and technical advisory support, facilitate social dialogue and stakeholder engagement, and support the implementation of pilots to test a range of strategies for migrant worker’s education, support and re-entry into the Bangladesh labour market. It focuses on strengthening the overall policy and governance framework for migration; improving the institutions responsible for managing migration; and supporting the development of expanded services to migrant workers.
Technical Support to the Programme Support Unit of the National Employment and Empowerment Programme (NEEP) in Jordan ILO will work with the Programme Support Unit of the National Employment and Empowerment Programme (NEEP) to set up a coordination mechanism between existing Active Labour Market Programmes, with a strong focus on young men and women in Jordan. Under the Ministry of Labour, the ILO will support the establishment and functioning of a Project Support Unit (PSU) which will lead and coordinate the NEEP implementation. In particular the PSU will be tasked to ensure the accountability of the NEEP, and the traceabilitiy of its results. It will advice the Ministry on the most relevant policy to support the creation of decent employment in Jordan, based on international labour standards and international good practices.
ILO - Unified Budget Results Accountability Framework (2018 - 19) - Inter-Regional Project – Country Envelop (UBRAF CE) HIV prevalence has decreased among adults’ ages 15 to 49 years from 5.1% in 2011/2 to 4.7% in 2017/18 . A major achievement is the expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART). Drivers of the epidemic include low rates of condom use during high risk sex (multiple partners, transactional sex and intergenerational sex); early sexual debut; low levels of male circumcision in some regions; lack of comprehensive HIV knowledge (with less than 50% youth having comprehensive knowledge ); low coverage of safe blood for transfusion; sharing of needles amongst PWID; mobility and migration (with a high HIV vulnerability of mobile populations and the surrounding communities near ports and truck stops on transport corridors). Discrimination and violence against women/ girls are widely prevalent and fuelled by patriarchal norms, traditions (such as female genital mutilation and early marriage) and impunity before the law and increase the risk of exposure to HIV. The scale up of HIV testing at workplaces is critical because the workplace offers unique opportunities to reach women and men workers, their families and communities with HIV testing services in locations where they spend most of their daily lives and calls for mobilization of the private sector and other relevant actors and unions from male dominated sectors. Immediate Objectives: “Increase availability and uptake of HIV testing among men through workplace structures in male dominated sectors; and Immediate Objective 2: “To economically empower targeted young women and girls by increasing the availability of economic services to prevent and mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS in selected high impact regions.”
Création d’emplois décents et consolidation de l’emploi existant pour les jeunes et potentiels migrants dans le secteur de la pêche artisanale Contribuer à la stabilité régionale et à une meilleure gestion des migrations, en s’attaquant aux causes profondes d’instabilité, de déplacements forcés des populations et de migration irrégulière, en augmentant les opportunités économiques, l’égalité des chances, la sécurité et le développement. Les objectifs spécifiques sont la promotion de la création d’emplois durables et décents dans le secteur de la pêche artisanale pour accroitre les opportunités économiques des jeunes des régions littorales, de Nouakchott et Nouadhibou en Mauritanie. le programme touchera au moins 9 000 bénéficiaires directs pendant les quatre ans d’exécution (48 mois).
Global action to improve the recruitment framework of labour migration MADAGASCAR The “Global action to improve the recruitment framework of labour migration” project will contribute to the development of practical Guidelines on fair recruitment to assist ILO Member States, social partners, labour recruiters and other stakeholders in developing labour recruitment laws and regulations in compliance with international human rights and labour standards (see output 3.1 on development of Guidelines). The ILO Guidelines will subsequently be used to inform the design and implementation of the pilot interventions (under Outcome 1), as well as build the capacities of social partners and civil society to facilitate migrant workers’ access to reliable, gender-sensitive information and services in the recruitment process (under Outcome 2). The knowledge acquired throughout the implementation of this project will contribute to advancing ILO’s Fair Recruitment Initiative, and delivering on the overall ILO Fair Migration Agenda, which constituents around the world have endorsed.
Additional terms of reference for update of actuarial evaluation and investment review for social security sector Executive Summary Two main tasks are involved under this project; • Update of the Actuarial valuation results as at 30 June 2013 using recent statistics (as at June 2016) to enable the Authority to move forward and make decisions basing on updated statistics. • ILO to provide an expert to prepare a report describing the issues, challenges and needs related to the merging of the funds and investments policies and recommend a list of activities to be conducted to address these issues, challenges and needs.
Support to a national employment injury insurance scheme for Bangladesh workers of the ready-made garment and the supply-chain sectors and its extension This project is established to support the political willingness of the Bangladesh government and social partners to adopt a national employment injury insurance scheme and to set up the public institution required for its implementation. It is closely linked to the Sustainability Compact for Continuous Improvements in Labour Rights and Factory Safety in the Ready-Made Garment and Knitwear Industry in Bangladesh (8 July 2013 ), namely the commitment of the Bangladesh counterparts to implement the National Tripartite Plan of Action on Fire Safety and Structural Integrity in the RMG Industry in Bangladesh with the support of the ILO which was adopted in March 2013. The project builds on the lessons from the Rana Plaza Compensation Arrangement which had to be organised on an ad hoc basis to look after the dire needs for income support and access to medical and rehabilitation services for the victims while this had a high cost for the parties involved in the financing. The national EII scheme will contribute directly to the National Development Plan of Bangladesh, namely the vision of the Perspective Plan 2010-21 ‘to build Bangladesh into a resilient, productive, innovative and prosperous nation with a caring society consisting of healthy, happy, and well-educated people.’ This project intends to support the adoption of a national and institutional legal framework and to support the establishment of the new public administration capacity that will extend coverage gradually to wage earners in Bangladesh, starting with workers at least of the ready-made-garments sector and the supply chain and extending to all workers. From ILO vast pool of experiences in assisting governments with the establishment of social security institutions, it is crucial the provision of ILO expertise be secured to assist the national dialogue with social partners and other key parties so to arrive at an acceptable policy design and an administration capable of delivering on its promises and that ILO support continue until the stabilization period which normally comes after the third year of operations.
Support to the reintegration of returnees in Ethiopia In 2013/2014 the forced repatriation of 163,018 (100,688 male, 53,732 female and 8,598 children) Ethiopian migrants from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), combined with a significant number of reported cases of abuse and mistreatment of migrants drew considerable attention to the plight of Ethiopian migrant workers. Not only in Ethiopia but, also at the regional level and sub-regional level increasing cross-border labour and skills mobility has made labour migration an ever more urgent challenge for governance across Africa. The AU Migration Policy Framework for Africa (2006) rightly recognized that “migration will be a major topic in the 21st Century and will therefore pose certain social, economic and political challenges for policy makers in the future management of migration for the betterment of African societies” in addition at the Sub-Regional level the IGAD Regional Migration Policy Framework (2012) also recognized the challenges of migration. KSA returnees face severe difficulties, particularly in terms of decent livelihood opportunities and reintegration into the Ethiopian labour market. As a consequence, a large proportion chooses to re-migrate, putting them at risk of trafficking and exploitation. This project is part of a broader programme on improving labour migration management in Ethiopia, which aims at supporting the efforts of the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) and of stakeholders from Civil Society in improving migration management and reintegration. The ILO will drive for the reintegration component. The specific objective of this project is therefore to provide individualised and rights based reintegration assistance to returnees with a particular focus on women and girls. Vulnerable local communities (unemployed youth, people with disability as well as women in vulnerable situation) will also be targeted. The direct assistance component of the project will be implemented through partnerships with selected service providers in Ethiopia. Currently, many service providers find it very challenging to provide the required support for returnees and potential migrants. Thus, the action will aim to support those service providers through systematic capacity building so as to enable them to provide effective and efficient services to returnees and strengthen the reintegration system in the country. The project will directly assist around 27,000 people including returnees, victims of trafficking, their families, and vulnerable local community members within the locality where returnees are settling in. The various forms of assistance to returnees are primarily geared towards their full recovery and successful economic and social reintegration. The services will include counselling, health care, legal assistance, access to education for them and their children, job-placements, skills and entrepreneurship training, and microfinance services.
Capacidades laborales para el Trabajo Decente Apoyo a la implementación, estructuración y ejecución de programas de formación para el trabajo y la vinculación laboral formal, para la población víctima del conflicto armado en Colombia
Support to Free Movement of Persons and Migration in West Africa (funded by EC) The project "Support to free movement of persons and migration in West Africa" has as its overall objective to maximise the development potential of free movement of persons and migration in West Africa by supporting the effective implementation of the ECOWAS Free Movement of Persons' Protocols and the ECOWAS Common Approach on Migration. It has the following three specific objectives : 1. To strengthen the capacities of the ECOWAS Commission to lead an intra-regional dialogue on free movement and migration issues and act as a platform for policy development and harmonisation; 2. To strengthen the capacities of national institutions of ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania in the areas of migration data collection and management, migration policy development, border management, labour migration and counter trafficking; 3. To promote the active engagement of Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in information and protection activities for the benefit of migrant and cross-border populations in West Africa.
Tripartite review of labour code in Haiti The aim of this project is to support a revision of the Labour Code based on tripartite principles and in line with international labour standards. Work will address key priorities of the Decent Work Country Programme for Haiti: 1) the strengthening and formalization of social dialogue; and 2) the tripartite revision of the Labour Code. Interventions include the development of a proposal for establishing a permanent forum for social dialogue in consultation with the tripartite constituents; capacity building aimed at government officials, trade unions and employers’ organizations on conflict prevention and resolution; and the organization of a social dialogue process to agree on the major revisions of the Labour Code, considering the comments of the ILO supervisory bodies.
Building a Generation of Safe and Healthy Workers - SAFE and HEALTHY YOUTH_Colombia The initiative proposed under the SafeYouth@Work Project, will roll out the Programme to Promote Formalization in two additional palm oil regions in Colombia (Meta and Casanare) with two objective: 1) Improve tools on labour formalization and OSH for young palm oil sector workers; and 2) Improve compliance with labour formalization law and OSH in the palm sector in Meta and Casanare. This initiative will link to other ILO projects strengthening the labour inspectorate through Strategic Compliance Planning, taking advantage of the fact that palm oil and ambiguous and disguised employment relationships have been and will likely continue to be the targets for a national compliance strategy.
9th Actuarial Review of the National Insurance Scheme as at 31 December 2016 The conduct of the 9th Actuarial Review of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) as at 31 December 2016 is primarily aimed at assisting the Board of the NIS in ensuring the long-term financial sustainability of the Scheme. 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 Scheme. The project covers actuarial valuation services for the Long-term benefits branch (old-age, invalidity and constant attendance benefits, survivors and funeral benefits) and the Short-term benefits branch (sickness, maternity and sickness benefits) to be provided by the Actuarial Services Unit of the Social Protection Department (SOC/ASU) and the Industrial benefits branch (injury, disablement and death benefits) to be provided by the Actuarial Services of the Global Employment Injury Programme of the Enterprises Department (ENT/GEIP). The Social Policy Unit (SOC/POL) of SOCPRO will also support the project for final clearance on conclusions and policy recommendations.
Rights at Work: Promoting Harmonious Labour Relations through Collective Bargaining in China The project aims to build the institutional capacity of Chinese workers, employers, and their respective organizations to carry out voluntary collective bargaining and to resolve labour disputes efficiently and effectively. It further aims to support the ILO’s tripartite constituents in China to strengthen collective bargaining institutions and governance frameworks for the promotion and improved application of core labour standards, especially in relation to disadvantaged groups of workers such as women and rural migrants. A key contribution of the project is to enhance the collective bargaining strategies and agendas of workers’ organizations to ensure the interests of these workers are better represented in collective contracts and to facilitate their meaningful participation in bargaining processes. The focus of the project’s activities will be training workers and employers and their organizations to undertake three pilot models of sectoral and locality-based collective bargaining. This piloting strategy is suitable in the Chinese context given policymakers’ greater openness to smaller-scale experimentation in institution building. The sectoral pilots will take place in certain ‘strategic growth’ sectors, namely automotive parts (higher value-added manufacturing) and courier logistics/delivery (services and e-commerce). A mixture of state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, foreign invested enterprises, and joint ventures can be found in the two sectors. The workforces also consist of various forms of non-standard employment, with a high proportion of young rural migrants and women workers. To enhance the implementation of the pilot programmes, the project will also incorporate research and information sharing through a comparative case study analysis of best practices and the organization of an international conference that will shed comparative insights into collective bargaining and dispute resolution systems in China and other countries. The main outputs of the project will be a series of training modules and tailored advice to build the capacity of collective bargaining representatives involved in the pilot programmes. The training will help the representatives develop their agenda and action plans for collective bargaining and dispute resolution. Their experiences will be documented, analysed, and shared with tripartite constituents at various levels and a wider group of stakeholders that are involved in labour relations such as NGOs, mediators, arbitrators, legal practitioners, etc. Based on the outcomes of the pilot programmes and a comparative analysis of collective bargaining and dispute resolution regulatory frameworks, a policy paper will be produced for the tripartite constituents to discuss developments and improvements in higher-level (such as national and provincial) laws, policies, institutions and governance frameworks. The project will be implmeneted for 36 months with a budget of USD 1,455,518.
Improving labour relations for decent work and sustainable development in the Myanmar garment industry This project aims to contribute to the reduction of poverty and the empowerment of women in Myanmar by improving labour relations, social dialogue and gender equality in the garment industry. Coming out of decades of military rule and isolation, Myanmar is yet to develop an adequate legal and institutional framework for sound labour market governance. The ILO and the tripartite partners are currently working towards the development of such a framework, but workers, employers and their organizations can take immediate action to address common concerns around wages and working conditions through social dialogue. In the particular case of the garment industry, it is imperative that women workers are able to participate fully in this process. Recent survey research indicates that the proportion of women among workers employed in the Myanmar garment industry is over 90%. The same research suggests that almost 80% of these women are under the age of 34. While the rapid growth of the garment sector represents an unprecedented opportunity for women’s economic empowerment and the reduction of poverty, making the most of this opportunity demands that the particular concerns of women workers be addressed. To ensure that this is the case, it must be possible for women to articulate these concerns and to take action to ensure that they are met. This will involve addressing certain direct and indirect obstacles to women’s involvement in representative structures. Given the importance of needs related to the reproductive and family role of women workers, indirect obstacles to their involvement in this case include inadequate access to health education. The project aims (1) to assist employers and workers in selected enterprises to build sound labour relations practices, including collective bargaining, through training programmes with a particular focus on identifying and overcoming barriers to women’s participation in social dialogue; (2) to deliver a health education programme targeted at women workers; and (3) to support employers’ and workers’ organizations at sectoral level in developing practices of bi-partite social dialogue through capacity building for each party at sectoral level, again with a focus on gender issues that reflects the specificities of the sector.
Supporting Respect for the Working Conditions of Workers in the Agro-Export Sector in Guatemala The project “Supporting the respect to the working conditions of workers in the agro-export sector in Guatemala" aims at supporting the workers in the agricultural export sector receive at least minimum wage, working within legal limits for hours, receiving due compensation for overtime and operating in a safe working environment. In order to assure the enforcement of acceptable conditions of work laws in the agricultural export sector the project will focus on the following theory of change: If the capacity of the labor inspectorate and Judiciary are improved then workers from the agricultural export sector will work with acceptable working conditions.
Capacity building of employers organisations in Cameroon This project aims at strengthening the institutional capacity of employers’ organizations in the area of women’s entrepreneurship. An integrated approach will be pursued to promote the creation and sustainability of micro, small and medium enterprises run by women by addressing relevant factors such as the legal and cultural environment, access to finance and information, social protection, organization and representation, non-discrimination and family responsibilities. The strategy involves applying the various modules of the ILO’s Start and Improve Your Business (SYIB) programme in the external context that affects women’s entrepreneurship. The focus will be on a sustainable anchoring of these management training tools within the main network of employers’ organizations and to increase the support that business advisory services can provide to women entrepreneurs. Assistance will also include capacity building for women entrepreneurs in specific technical areas such as social dialogue, occupational safety and health, social protection, international labour standards, and HIV/AIDS.