ILO 2020-2024 Social dialogue and workers' rights ILO 2020-2024 Social dialog och arbetsrättigheter The intervention is an extension and expansion  of current collaboration with ILO in Ethiopia (2015-2018). The objective is to contribute to the creation of productive employment with decent working conditions in Ethiopia, in particular for poor women and youth.

Productive employment is the strongest link between economic growth and poverty alleviation. The aim of the project is to contribute to national development by supporting sustainable textile and garment industry. The focus will be on improved social dialogue, improved collaboration among labour market actors, improved productivity, establishment of miminum wages, and improved working conditions.

The ILO will support the Ethiopian social partners and government in implementing the recently approved labour legislation and establishing a system for minimum wages that can provide for decent living standards for the workers. At the enterprise level, the project will facilitate the establishment of grievance handling, workplace information-sharing and labour-management consultation mechanisms aiming to promote inclusive as well as enhanced productivity through lean production, improved working conditions, reduced turnover of staff and minimising waste of production. 

The intervention is expected to lead to:
- Improved worker wellbeing in terms of income, safety, equality, rights, voice and representation,
- Higher industry productivity and competitiveness, and
- Enhanced accountability and transparency in labour administration.

In addition, the suggested programme contributes to channels for strenthened democracy and Human Rights. Insatsen är en förlängning och vidareutveckling av befintligt ILO-samarbete i Etiopien (2015-2018). Målet är att främja produktiva arbetstillfällen med rimliga arbetsvillkor i Etiopien, i synnerhet för fattiga kvinnor och ungdomar.

Produktiv sysselsättning är den viktigaste länken mellan ekonomisk tillväxt och fattigdomsminskning. Projektets syfte är att bidra till nationell utveckling genom att stödja framväxten av en hållbar textil och beklädnadsindustri. Projektet fokuserar på stärkt social dialog, förbättrade relationer bland arbetsmarknadens parter, ökad produktivitet, etablering av minimilöner och förbättrade arbetsvillkor.

ILO kommer stödja arbetsmarknadens parter och staten i implementeringen av den nyligen godkända arbetslagstiftningen och etableringen av ett system för minimilöner för anständiga levnadsvillkor. På företagsnivå kommer projektet bidra till förbättrade mekanismer för konfliktlösning och arbetsplatsinformation och dialog för ökad produktivitet, förbättrade arbetsförhållanden, minskad personalomsättning och reduktion av resursbortfall. 

Programmet förväntas leda till:
1. Förbättrat arbetarnas välbefinnande när det gäller inkomst, säkerhet, jämlikhet, rättigheter, röst och representation,
2.  Högre industriproduktivitet och konkurrenskraft, och
 3. Förbättrad ansvarsskyldighet och öppenhet i arbetsförvaltningen.

Vidare bidrar det föreslagna projektet till kanaler för att stärka den demokratiska utvecklingen och rättighetsagendan. The overall objective of the programme is to contribute to poverty reduction by improved working conditions and incomes for people working in the textile sector. 
The program aims to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment generation, and strengthen tripartite social dialogue between governments, trade unions and employers’ organizations in Ethiopia. 
The program focuses on both the policy and regulatory challenges to reforming the business enabling environment and its value for increasing exports and international investment as well as the importance of advancing continuous improvement of wages and working conditions through improved industrial relations, and the role of women’s empowerment within Ethiopia.
For example, the ILO will support the Ethiopian social partners and government in implementing the recently approved labour legislation and establishing a system for minimum wages that can provide for decent living standards for the workers. At the enterprise level, the project will facilitate the establishment of workplace information-sharing and labour-management consultation mechanisms aiming to promote enhanced productivity through lean production, improved working conditions, reduced turnover of staff and minimising waste of production. 
As such, the program seeks to support fair, transparent, efficient and effective procedures for the prevention and resolution of workplace conflicts and grievances through social dialouge and collective bargaining. 
The intervention is expected to result in:
- Improved workers wellbeing in terms of income, safety, equality, rights, voice and representation,
- Higher industry productivity and competitiveness, and
- Enhanced accountability and transparency in labour administration.
Programmatic set-up
The overall programme composes of and seeks to combine and coordinate several different ILO projects for improved effeciency, outreach and results. In addition to further development of the Sida supported IR project, the programme now also consits of ILO’s Better Work, Vision Zero Fund and SCORE (productivity improvement training) programmes. 
The Better Work Programme is a unique partnership between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). It was launched in August 2006 in order to improve labour standards and competitiveness in global supply chains. The programme assists enterprises improve practices based on core ILO labour standards and national labour law. It does this with a strong emphasis on improving worker-management cooperation, working conditions and social dialogue. Enhanced respect for labour standards helps enterprises meet the social compliance demands of global buyers, improves conditions for workers, and helps firms become more competitive by increasing productivity and quality.          
The Vision Zero Fund (VZF), an initiative of the Group of Seven (G7) countries, aims at preventing work-related deaths, injuries and diseases in sectors operating in or aspiring to join global supply chains (GSCs). VZF’s main objective is to increase collective public and private action aimed at fostering and enhancing concrete occupational safety and health (OSH) prevention activities in businesses operating in low- and middle-income countries. 
SCORE (Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises) is an ILO programme that promotes productivity, competitiveness and decent work in emerging economies. In Ethiopia, SCORE will provide productivity trainings with a focus on improving resource (both human and material) productivity and efficiency of workers and key processes in the production system. The training module will include, among others, Lean and Kaizen principles and practical use in actual factory set-up, flow improvement, productive maintenance, continuous quality improvement, waste elimination to reduce cost and environmental safeguard.
The intervention will be implemented in two phases. The proposed Project Document describes the first phase of the project (2019-2023), which will focus on the textile and apparel sector. Building on the lessons learned from the intervention in the garment and textile sector, the programme will also conduct a pre-feasibility assessment of the industrial relations, working conditions and productivity challenges in the newly established agro-industrial parks, which will provide the possibility to expand operations and ensure linkages between agriculture and manufacturing industries. For example, the capacity building packages produced by the programme will be customised to the needs of the agriculture sector, and the programme will facilitate exchanges and learning between the garment and agro-industrial parks. 
Furthermore, the intervention will maintain close links with ILO’s ongoing work in support of the implementation of Ethiopia’s Jobs Compact, which will expand employment opportunities to refugees, including in identified industrial sectors, such as textile and apparel.