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Enhancing occupational safety and health standards in the construction sector in Cambodia Occupational accidents and diseases have an impact not only on the lives of individual workers, but also on the productivity and profitability of businesses, the sustainability of social protection systems and ultimately on the welfare of the whole society. The project aims to address the need to improve occupational safety and health of workers and workplaces in Cambodia’s construction sector and will focus on the construction of commercial and residential buildings. To improve occupational safety and health of workers and workplaces in these parts of the construction sector, the project will support Cambodia in strengthening its OSH laws and regulations as provided for in the activities and targets set out in its 2nd National OSH Master Plan 2016-2020. The project will also support initiatives that are intended to secure a higher level commitment by government agencies and social partners to collaborate and to create broader based awareness of safety and health measures in general as well as in the supply chain and chemical usage for construction of commercial and residential buildings. These initiatives will focus on building greater collaboration among relevant government agencies who are in a position to support improvement in the quality and delivery of OSH services and to increase their scope of coverage, including the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training, Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MoLMUP), the National Social Security Fund and other relevant agencies. ILO’s key OSH standards such as Promotional Framework for OSH Convention (No 187, 2006), Safety and Health in Construction Convention (No. 167, 1988), Asbestos Convention (No.162, 2006), Guidelines on Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems (ILOOSH 2001), and the ILO Code of Practice Safety and health in construction will be fully applied as sound guidance to strengthen national concerted actions. This project will be implemented in the framework of the ILO's Global Action for Prevention on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH GAP) Flagship Programme. This programme seeks to foster the creation of a global culture of prevention, with the objective of achieving real reductions in the incidence of work-related death, injury and disease.
Technical support on rural economy in Colombia This project aims at establishing policies and programmes that promote decent work in the rural economy of Colombia. For more than 50 years, the rural areas have been the hardest hit by the armed conflict in Colombia. The percentage of rural people living in poverty and extreme poverty, 46.1% and 22.1%, respectively, far exceed the levels in the urban settings (30.3% and 7%). The recently approved Peace Agreement puts a special emphasis on rural development. In June 2015, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Ministry of Labour, other key Colombian institutions and the ILO with the purpose of promoting decent work in the rural sector. Within this framework, the project focuses on strengthening social dialogue and the technical skills of public sector officials, employers and representatives of workers' organizations so they can mainstream decent work and the gender equality approach into rural development policies and programmes, as an essential element for the construction of peace and social stability. In collaboration with the ITC-Turin, an academy on rural development for peace transfers knowledge and ILO methodologies on local development, social protection schemes for the rural sector, rural entrepreneurship, inclusion of small farmers in agro-industrial value chains, social economy and promotion of cooperatives, women´s entrepreneurship in the rural economy and employment intensive and public work programmes, among other issues.
Technical support on decent work in rural aeras in Laos The project aims at increasing opportunities for decent livelihood and employment in the rural economy, thus reducing poverty in line with the national social economic development plan. The ILO will support the piloting of rural employment promotion initiatives through an integrated approach to develop an evidence-based national rural employment strategy. The ILO will also explore collaboration with the World Bank and the Lao National Committee of Rural Development and Poverty Eradication (Poverty Reduction Fund) on the future intervention on rural employment promotion initiative. The UN Country Team in Lao PDR has also set increased opportunities for decent livelihoods and jobs for men and women as one of the eight priorities in the new UN Partnership Framework (2017-2021). The main focus now is to discuss with the government the framework for national rural employment strategy development and prepare a project proposal to support the country to pilot the tested integrated approach on rural employment. Community asset development through community contracting using employment intensive methods and incorporating OSH, green jobs and gender mainstreaming, with affirmative actions for women’s full inclusion will be developed. Decent rural employment will be promoted through skills training and employment services. The capacity of constituents and other stakeholders will be strengthened to promote and ensure that decent working conditions are deployed in accordance with the labour law at the provincial and district levels, especially in the target areas. Special focus will be on the provision for gender-responsive services to women and men. A rural employment strategy will be developed through informed foregoing research and policy/programme implementation, and with special attention to needs of women and ethnic minorities.
Zimbabwe youth and women empowerment project (YWEP) The Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ), intends to economically empower youth and women, particularly in rural areas, by setting up food (honey, horticulture and mopane worms) value addition facilities in three districts; and an artisanal gold ore milling facility in one district. The food processing facilities shall be set up in existing vocational training centers; and the artisanal gold ore milling facility shall be set up in a designated business zone in the district. The processing facilities involve the rehabilitation or extension of existing buildings to house the facilities. The facilities targeted for rehabilitations/extensions/constructions are of small scale and the total estimated cost of the works is USD 400,000. The target population to benefit directly from the project will mainly be youth and women with emphasis on the rural poor. The Project targets the women and youth in 5 of the 59 districts of the country. The targeted districts are Beitbridge (mopane worms) Mutasa and Lupane (honey), Guruve (artisanal gold ore milling); Mutasa and Marondera (horticulture); and The population of the targeted districts, totalling 650,000 (50.7% female) is expected to benefit indirectly from the project. A total of 5,000 youth and women located in the project geographic scope will benefit from additional off-farm jobs to be created in the subsectors of food processing, and processing of gold ore. 200 MSMEs in the targeted food value chains are expected to be reached with business development services, appropriate technology and facilitating their access to credits and markets. The value addition activities in horticulture processing is also expected to benefit the thousands of women and youth involved in the growing of horticulture products and who currently suffer significant post-harvest losses and low prices which are driven by lack of processing facilities within their districts and poor access to markets. In addition, a significant proportion of the 150,000 women artisanal gold miners in the country who work in the targeted districts where the gold ore processing centres will be set up, will benefit from increased incomes from their ore – at present, due to the prevailing power relations, large-scale miners capture most of the benefits when they process the ore of artisanal women miners, leaving them with just a small fraction of the gains. The overall development objective of the project is to contribute towards to the improvement of livelihoods for youth and women through the development of economic opportunities. It entails the rehabilitation/extension/construction of food processing and artisanal gold ore milling units in a total of 5 rural districts in Zimbabwe. All these activities will result in improved incomes, job creation for women and youth and overall economic empowerment of the target groups.
Development of Global Guidance and Strengthening Social Dialogue in Selected Countries to combat Hazardous Child Labour in Tobacco Growing The project aims to develop global guidance on hazardous child labour in tobacco growing and strengthen social dialogue in selected countries to combat child labour in agriculture. The global guidance will examine the nature and conditions of hazardous child labour in tobacco growing. It will promote tripartite action to ensure that children do not perform this work and will support decent youth employment opportunities for young people between the minimum working age and the age of 18. The global guidance will be based on existing and new research and its development will be facilitated by the ILO with advice from experts including from the tobacco sector, academia, and others, and will include tripartite consultations. In Malawi, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, the project will provide technical support for tripartite meetings on child labour in agriculture. In Malawi and Uganda, the project will provide support for the implementation of the tripartite meeting outcome documents and strengthen the capacity of governments and the social partners to further develop and implement action plans to tackle child labour. The project builds upon the collaborative efforts of ILO and ECLT in Malawi to provide policy support to tripartite constituents to implement the agriculture component of the National Action Plan to combat child labour, and the declarations of the Malawi National Conference on Child Labour in Agriculture, held in 2012. It also builds upon the recent Tanzania National Sustainability Conference Pathways to Sustainability: Together We Can Eradicate Child Labour in Agriculture, held in May 2015.
Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) phase III – India 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).
Alliance avec les entreprises contre le travail des enfants et le travail forcé La stratégie du projet se fonde sur les résultats déjà atteints dans la lutte contre le travail des enfants et le travail forcé, et en particulier la volonté politique affirmée des pays membres à agir et à mettre en œuvre les politiques publiques nécessaires. Les institutions et les capacités nationales – grâce notamment aux activités antérieures du programme IPEC – sont en place au niveau national pour développer et mettre en œuvre les politiques nationales pertinentes et les activités concrètes permettant le changement. Le BIT reçoit désormais des requêtes d’un nouveau genre demandant des formes d’appui et d’intervention orientées davantage sur le partage d’expériences et de bonnes pratiques au sein d’une même région ou au-delà, ainsi que sur la recherche permanente de méthodologies de mise en œuvre qui assurent des résultats pérennes et une approche étendue aux autres principes et droits fondamentaux dont le combat contre le travail forcé. La stratégie du projet « Appui à l’Alliance 8.7 » vise donc à répondre à cette évolution des demandes et des besoins. Il sera à l’écoute de toute innovation pertinente pour les entreprises pouvant s’adapter à la lutte contre le travail des enfants et le travail forcé comme par exemple des applications pour smartphone destinés aux entreprises ou des initiatives telles « jarrondis.com ». Ainsi le projet vise à appuyer les axes d’interventions du Programme Phare IPEC + et à soutenir l’Alliance 8.7 par : • la mise en place de plateformes régionales permettant l’échange entre les pairs et le partage d’expérience ; • l’accompagnement des entreprises pour qu’elles aient des chaines d’approvisionnement respectueuses des droits des enfants et exemptes de travail des enfants et de travail forcé; ; • l’échange d’expériences entre les pays francophones bénéficiaires. Le projet propose d’appuyer le programme phare IPEC+ et l’Alliance 8.7 en développant, d’une part, les échanges d’expériences entre les pays francophones et en renforçant, d’autre part, un outil innovant : la Plateforme sur le Travail des Enfants (CLP) qui, depuis sa deuxième réunion, est rattachée au Comité sur les Droits de l’Homme et le Travail (CDHT), du Pacte Mondial des Nations Unies.
SIDA-ILO Partnership Programme The Sida-ILO Partnership Programme has supported a portfolio of strategic interventions under Outcome 8 in Bangladesh, Bolivia and Guatemala to strengthen the protection of workers from indigenous communities, with a focus on indigenous women. Across continents, indigenous workers share common experiences of high exposure to unacceptable forms of work, which is linked to historic and persisting discrimination and marginalization of their communities on social, economic, cultural and political dimensions. Due to pressures on traditional livelihood activities and lack of income-generating activities in their communities, indigenous women and men increasingly migrate to urban areas. Indigenous women, who are experiencing discrimination and disadvantage on account of gender and indigenous identity, tend to find work in sectors that are informal, badly regulated or where labour law enforcement is weak. Indigenous workers’ lack of access to skills and training, exclusion from decision-making and policy debates and low level of collective organization, are among the underlying factors. Leveraging an integrated approach that addresses equality, freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, occupational safety and health, wages and other basic working conditions, as well as taking into account the rights of indigenous peoples’ and respect for their cultures and identities, the Programme is aiming to advance indigenous women’s voice and economic empowerment. Interventions are targeted to selected economic sectors with high prevalence of indigenous workers, such as domestic work, construction, tea plantations or work in the urban informal economy. Further, the Programme supports interventions in Ukraine to address discrimination and other working conditions deficits of persons living with HIV and AIDS and working in the transportation (railway, ports) and health sectors. Similarly, as in the case of indigenous workers, tackling discrimination is a key entry point for preventing and addressing exposure of workers living with HIV and AIDS to unacceptable forms of work. The final evaluation aims at assessing the relevance, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of the interventions carried out in the four countries and the results achieved, in addition to providing key recommendations on the way forward.
Better Work Jordan - USDOL Revenue Budget A separate revenue project is set up for Better Work Jordan to account for revenue generated by the USDOL-funded project, 104579. The fund will then be spent in accordance with USDOL rules and regulations.
Global action to improve the recruitment framework of labour migration PAKISTAN 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.
Strengthening tripartite response for formulating and implementing a social security framework in India India has made great strides in achieving a basic level of social protection for all the people in the country, however, the decision-makers are facing a number of pivotal challenges. Three of the most important challenges are (a) Closing the coverage gap; (b) Improved governance of social protection schemes; (c) Creating the necessary fiscal space. The Government of India follows a comprehensive approach aimed at preventing deprivation and ensuring that all individuals have a basic income security and basic health provisions. Currently, it is trying to move from a needs-based to a rights-based approach. The most significant development in this direction is the recently released Draft Code on Social Security and Labour Welfare with the objective of merging fifteen Central social security legislations into a single legislation, thus simplifying implementation. At the same time, it also aims at providing a national framework for a universal social security system both in the organized and unorganized sectors. The social partners have welcomed the initiative with some degree of caution given the daunting challenge. The project aims at supporting the Ministry of Labour and Employment in developing a policy framework leading to a code on social security, as part of the labour law reform process. The project builds upon ILO assistance already provided to the Ministry and focuses on facilitating policy dialogue and knowledge sharing to support the finalization of the draft labour code on social security and welfare.
Integrated Programme on Fair Recruitment (Nepal component) This global project seeks to contribute to the promotion of fair recruitment initiatives across migration corridors in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. The corresponding project strategy is based on a three-pronged approach: 1) establishing fair recruitment corridors to prevent abuses and exploitation of migrant workers; 2) providing migrant workers with access to reliable information and improved services and 3) conducting innovative research and disseminating knowledge on ethical recruitment. These components will be implemented through several pilot initiatives at the global and country level. Target countries for pilot projects proposed in this concept note include Tunisia, Jordan, Nepal and the Philippines. The strategy will apply a multi-stakeholder approach in conjunction with governments, trade unions, employers’ organisations and the media. This integrated project has been developed jointly by the ILO’s Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour (FPRW/SAP-FL) and the Labour Migration Branch (MIGRANT).
Joint Programme: Support to human security in Northern Mali through building the resilience of youth and women Le projet conjoint sur la sécurité humaine et la résilience des femmes et des jeunes au Mali vise le renforcement de la cohésion sociale et la protection des droits humains au Mali. Intervenant dans les zones affectées par la crise, ce projet contribue à la consolidation de la paix et à la stabilité sociale, à la diversification des opportunités et au relèvement social et économique avec une attention sur les populations vulnérables du Nord-Mali. L'intervention du BIT repose sur l'approche de travail décent pour les jeunes, à travers l'appui à la diversification des moyens de subsistance et des opportunités de revenus. Le BIT intervient sur l'objectif 1.3 : "Resilience of vulnerable youth and communities affected by the conflict is enhanced through apprenticeship, vocational training and support to the creation of decent jobs".
Sustaining GSP-Plus Status by strengthened national capacities to improve ILS compliance and reporting – Guatemala & El Salvador Objectives The present Action aims at improving the application of the 8 fundamental ILO conventions in the following ILO beneficiaries of the EU preferential GSP+ scheme: El Salvador, Guatemala, Mongolia and Pakistan. The selected countries will be assisted to take action to apply the 8 fundamental ILO Conventions and better meet their standards-related obligations, in particular on the critical issues raised by the ILO supervisory bodies and reflected under EU GSP+ monitoring. They will also be assisted to fulfil their ILO Constitutional reporting obligations on these conventions. Organisation/ implementation: The strategy will be to act on several fronts, as to improve implementation of ILS and compliance with reporting obligations and/or ratified fundamental Conventions. In each country, selected key actors capable to improve implementation of ILS will be given technical assistance, training and will be made aware of the critical issues. These actors will be members of the national administration, representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations, judges and parliamentarians. The intervention to build administrative capacity on implementing the ILS will use a mix of approaches, focussing mainly on institutional development. Activities could include: ¿ Awareness-raising and training on the content of selected fundamental ILS. ¿ Research to generate information on the status of implementation of ILS, including legislative gap analyses, advice on elements that will enable tripartite constituents to take the relevant decisions aiming at full implementation. ¿ Legal advice on the revision or drafting of legislation and regulations in the light of the supervisory bodies’ comments. ¿ Strengthening of data collection and reporting capacity of tripartite constituents including the capacity of using the systemic approach to managing ILS constitutional obligations. ¿ Publication/adaptation of thematic materials on the implementation of the concerned ILS. The programme management strategy is designed to ensure coordination and coherence, while also ensuring cost-efficiency and national ownership aligned with the priorities identified by the supervisory bodies. The programme management will ensure complementarity with other EU-ILO projects horizontally or in the countries concerned and avoid overlap. The management structure is comprised of the following components:
Processing of Labour Force Survey Microdata Through this small project, the ILO is contracted by UN Women in the area of statsistics and data production to provide gender- and marital status-disaggregated data on labour force participation, geographical location, disability status, status in employment, occupation and education.