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Promotion of workplace cooperation in the readymade garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh The envisaged project aims to further the work of the ILO Country Office for Bangladesh (CO-Dhaka)-led projects on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work to ensure and sustain harmonious industrial relations in Bangladesh. The focus will be to work areas of workplace cooperation, building the trust and mutual gains for both workers and employers and that of effective dispute resolutions within the RMG sector. The project will focus exclusively on a set of programmes that will enable the ILO and its constituents to build and test a basis of programmes that in turn will lead to national level interventions on the longer term. The proposal suggests a set of activities with an area based and targeted interventions to ensure results oriented and results managed programme. The goals of the project envisaged hence coincide with the Bangladesh Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) and that of other national priorities to achieve a holistic approach within the RMG Sector.
Support fragile states to develop knowledge base on decent work indicators in rural areas
Capacity building of workers' organizations on employment opportunities This project aims at helping workers' organisations in South Africa promote the creation of decent employment opportunities through participation in policy dialogue. Interventions will include analytical work on the impact of global supply chains and multinational enterprise on decent work and job creation in vulnerable sectors of the economy, and a gender sensitive policy advocacy strategy for strengthening the role of global supply chains and multinational enterprises in the promotion of decent work and job creation. Targeted training on wage setting policies will be provided to enable trade unions to engage more effectively in policy debates on the national minimum wage. Emphasis will be placed on strengthening the capacity of trade unions to apprehend the economic and developmental effects of global supply chains and the role of multinational enterprises in promoting employment and decent work, including through the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy. ILO support to the three labour federations will also aim at strengthening their capacity to engage in social dialogue on Conventions earmarked for ratification and application of those already ratified as well as to mainstream gender in policy dialogue and collective bargaining processes. A women's leadership development programme for young women trade unionists will be implemented across the three labour federations.
Promoting Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in Jordan II The project “Promoting Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in Jordan” will implement a two-pronged strategy to improve compliance with freedom of association and collective bargaining rights in the country. It will first support the tripartite constituents in bringing national legislation in conformity with the ILO’s principles and Conventions on freedom of association and collective bargaining rights (ILO Convention No. 87 and No. 98). To this end, the project will take into account the findings of the ILO’s report on the scope of labour law reform in Jordan produced in late 2013. It will also build on the ILO’s previous consultations with the Ministry of Labour and the social partners regarding the recognition and exercise of freedom of association and collective bargaining rights. Particular attention will be paid to address the tripartite constituents’ concerns and interests regarding the recognition of freedom of association and collective bargaining rights at all levels for independent trade unions and migrant workers. The project will conduct separate technical advisory sessions for each constituent to help identify constructive proposals to amend the legislation in conformity with ILO principles and Conventions on freedom of association and collective bargaining rights. These consultations and proposals will feed the project’s Technical Memorandum on Legal Reform on freedom of association and collective bargaining rights. The Technical Memorandum will provide ILO’s recommendations for consideration by the tripartite constituents on this particular matter. Accordingly, the project will support the Ministry of Labour efforts to initiate and advance tripartite dialogue on the recommendations. The project will provide technical advice to support this process, and if an agreement is reached on the legal provisions to be developed or amended, it will support the drafting of relevant provisions. If necessary, the project will facilitate discussions between the tripartite constituents and the Parliament for the adoption of relevant legal amendments. The project’s second objective is to promote sound industrial relations and the effective exercise of collective bargaining rights at the sectoral level, particularly in sectors with a high density of migrant workers. Accordingly, the project will develop the capacity of the Ministry of Labour to improve the effectiveness of its work in these critical areas. The Directorate of Labour will specially benefit from the project’s assistance, given its mandate on collective bargaining and labour dispute prevention and resolution. In doing so, the project will build on previous work carried out by other ILO projects in the country. More particularly, the project will contribute to the implementation of the collective bargaining policy developed under a Norwegian-funded project. The project will also benefit from the training activities on conciliation and mediation to be carried by a Canadian-funded project on “Improving Labour Law Compliance in Jordan”.
Fortalecimiento de la efectiva aplicación de los derechos fundamentales en el trabajo y de los Pueblos Indígenas en Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua Objetivo del proyecto es contribuir a mejorar el estado de respeto, protección, defensa y cumplimiento de los derechos humanos, con enfoque sobre los derechos laborales, de las personas y grupos en condición de vulnerabilidad, especialmente de pueblos indígenas, mujeres y defensores de derechos humanos de los países de la región Centroamericana con énfasis en Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua.
Development of a sub-regional action plan for workplace compliance among the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) member countries
Better Work Global Programme Phase III – (2015 -2017) Bangkok The global garment industry offers developing countries the opportunity to support inclusive development through job-rich growth and promotion of women’s empowerment and participation in the labour market. The industry offers formalized employment to over 60 million workers worldwide, the majority of whom are female. However the industry is renowned for poor job quality. The garment sector has poor safety and health standards and is characterized by low wages, long working hours, frequent reports of verbal abuse sexual harassment, and gender discrimination. Labour inspectorates typically lack the capacity to enforce the law and collective bargaining agreements in the sector are still a rarity. Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives have had some impact in improving working conditions but progress is uneven, interventions are often fragmented and are widely regarded as unsustainable. Better Work has years of experience working at all levels of the supply chain to find sustainable solutions in eight countries. Our impact results have proven that our programme can improve working conditions, improve the competitiveness of participating manufactures and present opportunities to build the capacity of government and social partners to play their role in labour market governance. Better Work Global (BWG) will continue to provide technical support to country programmes by developing globally consistent tools required for implementation of services, providing leadership development, ensuring quality control, and coordinating global communications and relationships with donors, constituents and over 60 global buyers. BWG will also conduct global monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment and research programmes each of which feed into upstream policy debates within ILO, IFC and other international organisations. The programme has divided up its activities into four over-arching objectives for this next portion of phase III. The activities and outputs are intrinsically inter-linked, particularly as the nexus between its core service impact, related to issues of sustainability and policy change becomes clearer. BWG plans to achieve these aims by focusing on four major areas during this period, which include: • Better Work will achieve scale, quality and effectiveness in its service delivery. • Better Work and its alliance will catalyse changes in relevant strategies, policies and practices at sectoral, national and international levels. • Better Work will strengthen its engagement with buyers to improve their supply chain practices and support the BW programme. • Better Work Global with support from its governance structure will enable progress towards sustainable and viable country programmes. The following Project Document explains the challenges in the garment industry, and how Better Work Global contributes to solving these problems, in more detail.
Support integrated policies for social protection, employment development and occupational safety and health
Transition to Employment:Career Guidance for Youth and Job Creation This project will contribute to the development of the institutional capacity framework of public employment services. It will support a more effective and quicker transition from school to work, leading to more and better jobs for job seekers, mainly young people. To achieve this end the project will build upon a package of integrated initiatives to mobilize public employment offices, education institutions, youth associations, training providers, workers’ and employers associations and the media in selected areas. At the same time, the project intends to build on the achievements and experience of recent programmes aimed at upgrading Egypt’s PES network. The project will also establish links with ongoing major initiatives and UN projects to upgrade Egypt’s education and training systems. The ILO project is designed to provide all necessary information on career guidance and labour market to young people, building upon various entry points of relevant stakeholders, under the leadership of the Ministry of Manpower and Migration. It should be ensured that public employment services offices play a better role in helping young people find a decent job, thus changing the previous view of the operation of these offices. This project will establish linkages with relevant stakeholders like the Ministry of Education, youth associations, vocational training providers, workers’ and employers’ associations, and civil society; to guarantee provision of the most appropriate channels of service delivery and its sustainability after project completion. The overall Development objective of the project is that it is expected to contribute to reducing the high unemployment rate among youth, by facilitating the transition from school to work and allowing young women and men to find more and better jobs. Special emphasis will be placed on women and the disabled. The project is expected to achieve this objective through close coordination with the Ministry of Manpower and Migration and its Public Employment Services network, together with relevant stakeholders .Objective 1: Ten Pilot Youth Employment Units will have been established inside 10 PES offices and the capacity of the staff enhanced through an intensive capacity building training programme to equip them to be able to operate the PES offices and further deliver career guidance, job counseling services, job search skills and life skills to youth job seekers. PES will be more visible and utilized by youth and enterprises in selected areas. Objective 2: Youth in selected areas will have a more and better understanding of the labour market and how it functions, job opportunities available, and life skills needed in the labour market, to allow them to make better career planning and education / training choices. Objective 3: PES will be more involved in job creation schemes made with potential enterprises in project sites to promote job insertion and apprenticeship agreements to employ / train youth.
Support the Inter-regional efforts to collect and disseminate good practises on workplace compliance and strengthening constituents' capacities to apply up to date labour legislation
Establishment of social health protection instruments for effective universal coverage in Zambia- inception phase The ILO will assist the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security in Zambia, to adopt the Legal and Regulatory Framework for the Establishment of the National Social Health Insurance. This will be realized in the context of the overall comprehensive social security Law and reform, and the implementation of the recently adopted National Social Protection Policy (NSSP). It will be done in coordination with international P4H partners – WHO, WORLD BANK, GIZ, etc, through the establishment of ILO as contact point for the network in ZAMBIA. It is intended as an inception phase for a larger project which will assist the effective establishment of SHI in the context of Universal Health Coverage, in alignment with the coming Health Financing Strategy.
Support social dialogue frameworks and strengthen capacities of the main actors in the labour market
Women's Economic Empowerment Project in Somalia In Somalia women play as significant role in agriculture and food production and household food security both in paid and unpaid labour, constituting to 50% of women in total labour engagement. The number of women household’s in Somalia has increased due to increased insecurity and male migration. Extension services especially designed to target women farmers are limited in the region with little or no training in entrepreneurial income generating activities such as production, agro industries, access to finance and protection. The action will therefore support women’s economic empowerment as part of the development agenda attaining decent work. Empowering women economically through development of their entrepreneurship and business skills makes a strong contribution to achieving the third MDG on promoting gender equality and empowering women. The project also promotes women’s ability and well-being while reducing household poverty, increasing growth and productivity. Women need to be prioritized as agents, rather than just beneficiaries of economic intervention and there is increasing acknowledgment that eco¬nomically empowering women is essential to realising women’s rights and to achieve broader development goals such as economic growth, as well as poverty reduction. In the last few years, the ILO Somalia programme has been com¬mitted to the goal of women’s economic empowerment, economically empowering women as a win-win situation benefiting not only women, but society as a whole. Overall Objective: Enhancing women entrepreneurial skills This will be achieved through interventions such as the equipping of women, entrepreneurial skills training in alternative sectors, resources to compete in markets and to have fair access to economic institutions. The project will also support women’s voices and representation Women will be empowered and will be able to make and act on decisions, control resources and profits, have better access to markets, grow their businesses, employ more people, generate sustainable and better incomes.
Support the implementation of the National Employment and Skills Strategy through technical assistance to the Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth
Outcome 19: Thematic Funding 2014-15 (Norway-ILO Partnership Programme 2012-15) The inception project specifically aims to: - identify areas where institutions and capacities in different national contexts may be strengthened in order to deliver the decent work components as outlined in the post-2015 agenda; and, - provide support to tripartite constituents and UN country teams in target countries, with an aim to view to developing lessons for future capacity building by the ILO and define operating modalities and monitoring frameworks that can be used to implement the new sustainable development goals.
Research Initiative on the role of cooperatives This initiative will provide valuable data and information that can be used by national governments and cooperative movements to integrate cooperative concerns into national poverty reduction strategies. By providing data and information on the role of cooperatives in creating employment and providing social protection, the project will help the ILO to support its Decent Work agenda in the field of job creation. Immediate objective At the end of the project, cooperators and decisions makers, and their development partners, will have a solid and essential body of evidence, data and knowledge on the contribution of cooperatives to decent work and job opportunities. Methodology The project constitutes a piece of essential research to provide the necessary underpinning knowledge on the role of cooperatives and other social economy organisations in the expansion of decent work and job opportunities. The final product of the project will be a publication that summarizes the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the studies, including web-publications. It is worth mentioning that this initiative is a direct follow-up to the discussion on cooperatives statistics held in October 2013 at the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians which requested the ILO to further work on statistics of cooperatives.
Skills for Employment in Mozambique The project will strengthen the link between extractive industry (MNEs, international and national sub-contractors) and vocational training institutes, and build the capacity of institutions and staff to design and implement demand driven training programmes to promote the employment of local people. It will stress and promote active participation of social partners, especially employers in all aspects of training. The MNEs and the main sub-contractors would play a central, key role in the strengthening of the system. They will be involved in building the capacity of managers in managing the institutions, and trainers in designing modular competency based curricula and delivering training programmes.
Strengthening labour governance in Fiji The objective of this project is to implement targeted interventions designed to strengthen labour governance through the delivery training to judges, lawyers and advocates on International Labour Standards. By the end of this project, judges, lawyers and advocates would be more conversant in international labour standards and be able to apply the standards framework and related jurisprudence in their work as judges, lawyers and advocates respectively. The ILO International Training Centre (ILO-ITC) in Turin, in collaboration with the ILO’s International Labour Standards Department (NORMES), have delivered training courses and training manuals for judges, lawyers and legal educators since 1999. The ILO-ITC delivers a two week training programme for judges, lawyers and legal educators in June each year to participants from around the world. In addition, it also delivers tailored national training to countries in conjunction with national judicial training institutes. It has not, to date, delivered tailored training for judges and lawyers in Fiji. This programme would comprise the delivery of two 1.5 – 2 day awareness raising sessions. The first session would be delivered to judges and the second session would be delivered to lawyers and advocates (including representative organisations of employers and workers) on international labour standards, their application in Fiji and relevant case law. Both courses would be delivered in Suva before 30 April 2016.
Supporting prosperity and economic development in Algeria by supporting skills and labour market insertion of university graduates, helping them to make the transition from university into employment.
Promoting Respect for Informal Workers' Labour Rights in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras The project's objective is to establish and strengthen mechanisms for informal economy workers to access social protection and the full exercise of their labor rights. Expected Results include: 1) increased organizational capacity and productivity of workers in the informal economy; 2) increased state capacity to respond to the needs of workers in the informal economy, including access to formalization and social protections; 3) strengthened existing laws and new policies formulated to provide social services to workers in the informal economy and lift barriers to formalization; and 4) raised awareness of labor rights in the informal economy. In order to fulfill each objective, the project will carry out training activities and coaching processes to strengthen the capacities of the multistakeholders and its representatives (public and private ones), as well as researches, studies and data collection to create and disseminate relevant information for the action. It will also work on making policy and raising awareness campaigns, both at municipal and national level, in order to assure and create conditions of formalization and promotion of workers’ labor rights in the informal economy; also, the project, at all levels, will promote the tripartite dialogue as a strategy to achieve strong and sustainable results. Countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Honduras
Technical support on ILS in Zimbabwe This project aims at strengthening capacity to ratify and apply international labour standards and to fulfil related reporting obligations in Zimbabwe. The work will progressively strengthen labour market governance and social dialogue through a functioning Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) and the application of international labour standards in law and practice. A synthesis of comments from the ILO supervisory bodies on Zimbabwe’s implementation of international labour standards will be produced, validated and disseminated. Training of trainers on international labour standards for police will be conducted and the Code of Good Practice and handbook for law enforcement agencies finalised. In addition, customized capacity-building will be provided to support the effective engagement of social partners in national and sectoral dialogues on labour market and labour law issues. Principles for labour law reform will be established by the Tripartite Law Advisory Council. Operational guidelines for negotiators will be developed.
Support global products part of ACI on "Strenghtening workplace compliance through labour inspection"
Support GSP+ beneficiary countries to effectively implement ILS and comply with reporting obligations. Panama
Technical Support on Employment in Zambia This project aims at more and better jobs for inclusive growth and improved employment and empowerment outcomes for youth. The ILO will continue to provide technical assistance to the government to ensure active labour market policies target young people and persons with disabilities. Specific support will be provided towards strengthening the implementation of the Affirmative Action Programme on Youth Empowerment and Employment, by ensuring that the capacities of government institutions involved in the programme are enhanced. Work will focus on support towards skills development in order to improve the employability of youth and persons with disabilities. This will be achieved through facilitating access to entrepreneurship development, business development services, finance and markets. Support will also be provided to the employers’ organisation to implement the prioritised actions identified in the national internship study, as well as for a baseline review of the pilot phase of the programme to inform future roll-out of the internship programme.