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Integrated Programme on Fair Recruitment (FAIR) - Phase II - Global and Hong Kong components This global project seeks to consolidate and expand the achievements produced by ILO’s FAIR I project, through the upscaling of the pilots tested under FAIR I as well as the implementation of new fair recruitment interventions across migration corridors in North and West Africa, the Middle East and South and South-East Asia. The project strategy is based on a three-pronged approach: 1) implementing fair recruitment processes in selected migration corridors and sectors, 2) providing reliable information, improved services including facilitating access to justice, to migrant workers in the recruitment process and 3) producing and disseminating global knowledge and guidance about fair recruitment, including through the media. Target countries are China (Hong Kong SAR), Jordan, Nepal, Philippines and Tunisia. This integrated project has been developed and is implemented jointly by the ILO’s Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch (FUNDAMENTALS) and the Labour Migration Branch (MIGRANT), as an integral part of the ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative.
strengthened capacity of member states to ratify and apply international labour standards and to fulfil their reporting obligations The project aims at assisting Kazakhstan in addressing concerns raised by the ILO supervisory bodies concerning the application of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98). For the past 10 years, the supervisory bodies have made observations on legal and practical gaps related to the application of these Conventions, ratified in 2000 and 2001 respectively, in the country. The concerns raised by the supervisory bodies relate to restrictions, in law and practice, of the freedom to associate for workers as well as for employers. In May 2018, the Government presented a Road Map of measures to implement the recommendations of the supervisory bodies. The project assists the Government, the social partners and other relevant stakeholders in the implementation of the Road Map and develops the capacity of independent workers’ and employers’ organizations to promote compliance with international labour standards and to take up their respective roles, once freedom of association rights are respected. This project contributes to the country’s efforts to advance on the realization of SDG target 8.8 (Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment), as well as SDG target 16.3 (Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all).
Orientación vocacional y fortalecimiento de habilidades transversales a víctimas del conflicto armado interno en Colombia The project consists of cooperation and technical assistance from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture to the actions of the Ministry of Labour (MINTRABAJO) in the development of a strategy aimed at vocational guidance and strengthening the skills of young people who have been victims of the armed conflict and who are in the process of compensation in order to facilitate their transition to training processes, and/or income generation under the terms of Article 3 of Law 1448 of 2011. The Ministry of Labour requires support in the technical structuring and implementation of a strategy that proposes the implementation of four lines of development, which will enable the victims of the armed conflict who access the project to equalize their opportunities with those of the country's population in general, as well as being in a better position to access and remain in the labour market under decent working conditions. To this end, the development of mechanisms involving a set of services will be promoted so that 650 beneficiaries from different regions of the country can have access to vocational guidance processes - occupational profiling, identification of aptitudes and attitudes, identification and consolidation of life vocation -, as well as to develop transversal and soft skills, such as assertive communication, continuous learning, preparation of tools to be incorporated into a job, which will allow them to be inserted into the job or generate entrepreneurial initiatives in the formal economy.
Industry Skills for Inclusive Growth (InSIGHT) Phase 2 The project aims to explore and show that a skills-driven approach is a suitable ‘pathway’ to support and maintain inclusive growth in Asia. This growth should inclusively create value and opportunities for productive employment and livelihoods, without compromising environmental sustainability and ultimately improving the lives for all, especially young women and men, and vulnerable people in the region. The project will look into the most appropriate configuration to strengthen skills development mechanisms, taking into account best practices and sharing the lessons from Japan, and other ASEAN member countries, who have advocated a similar track. It will show strategies and pro-active response measures to best address the transitions in the labor market, including adapting to future skills requirements. Finally, it will also look deeply and articulate the constructive linkages that skills development have with other established systems like Industrial Relations, Social Protection, Human Resource and capacity development, among others.
Strengthening of national initiatives and enhancement of regional Cooperation for the environmentally sound management of POPs in Waste of Electronic or Electrical Equipment (WEEE) in Latin-American countries The overall objective of the project is to mobilize governements, employers' and workers' organizations and other private sector and academia to better manage electronic waste and promote decent work in the sector in Latin America, starting with Argentina and Peru. The project will pay particular attention to women and youth formal and informal workers in this sector. The project willl contribute to the UNIDO Regional Programme on "Strengthening of national initiatives and enhancement of regional cooperation for the environmentally sound management of Persistant Organic Pollulants (POPs) in Waste of Electronic and Electrical Equipment in Latin American Countries," funded by the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund (GEF).
Appui à la jeunesse tunisienne à travers l’entrepreneuriat social et solidaire L’objectif central (de développement) est la création d’emplois décents pour les jeunes (homme et femme) dans les régions défavorisées à travers la promotion de l’économie sociale et solidaire et de ses organisations. A cette fin, en complémentarité avec les actions du BIT actuellement en cours en Tunisie, le projet visera à mettre en œuvre les deux composantes suivantes. Composante 1 : Cette composante vise l’amélioration de la gouvernance régionale de l’ESS à travers la mise en place d’une plateforme régionale de coordination des acteurs de l’ESS; Composante 2 : Au niveau du gouvernorat cible identifié en étroite collaboration avec les parties prenantes, le projet mettra en place une démarche entrepreneuriale pour favoriser la création de projets d’économie sociale et solidaire. Dans ce cadre, le projet fournira l’appui technique et financier pour la création d’au moins 10 projets d’ESS impliquant majoritairement des femmes et/ou des jeunes soit en tant que membres majoritaires des organisations de l’ESS à l’origine des projets sélectionnés soit en tant que bénéficiaires directs de ces projets.
Better Work Bangladesh - Phase II (Australia) By June 2019, Better Work Bangladesh (BWB) aims to work in 450 factories, employing approximately 400,000 workers, out of which 80% are female. BWB expects to meet the following objectives: 1. Roll out of BW’s newly revised factory services to target factories. The focus will be on ensuring high level of factory participation and strong quality of management of services. 2. In collaboration with ILO’s wider RMG sector programme, maximise BWB’s long term impact on the effectiveness of national institutions to promote compliance in factories where the programme does not operate, for example, supporting the training of labour inspectors and ensuring synergies in implementation. 3. Develop a strategy to increase the long term viability of the programme with the focus on building capacity and leadership of national staff and improving the cost recovery from the programme through private sector revenues.
Improvement of Water Supply Equipment Management Capacity for the Establishment of Peace in Mindanao The project contributes to poverty alleviation in areas prone to conflict in the new Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) through improved access to safe and reliable water supply and sanitation services. The project areas include selected municipalities of the new BARMM from the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, where returning combatants, vulnerable youth and women, and the IPs and civilians displaced by the armed conflicts are re-establishing communities as they transition to a peaceful life. Over 1,800 workers and almost 12,000 households benefit from this project which contributes to improved access to safe and reliable water supply for domestic consumption and agricultural production. Water supply projects integrate environmental standards and conservation measures promoting green jobs and providing immediate income. These measures specifically include spring development, overhead water tanks, sanitation and hygiene facilities, irrigation systems, drainage systems and constructed wet lands. Activities include organizing communities, providing skills training, creating jobs, and promoting better working conditions as well as active involvement of the local communities in the development, construction, operation and maintenance of water supply, sanitation and hygiene facilities.
Skills 21 – Empowering citizens for inclusive and sustainable growth The project builds on the earlier Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Reform Project, funded by the EU, which successfully established new systems for skills development in Bangladesh, including reforms in the formal TVET system. However, the nascent National Skills Development System (NSDS) still needs strengthening, promotion, adoption/adaption, and replication by stakeholders. The Skills 21 project aims at strengthening the NSDS by continuing reforming the system and improving the national qualifications frameworks. It works with TVET institutions to introduce the entire reform package of new quality assured programmes, newly trained instructors and management and services for career guidance and job placement. The project aims also to support alliances between companies and relevant training providers to develop and implement demand-driven education and training programmes. In doing so, it places specific emphasis on the transition to a greener, more sustainable economy. The Skills 21 Project provides inputs for the creation of adequate opportunities to integrate migration-related approaches in skills development systems and assist in the implementation of the policy for (a) skilling and reintegrating migrants returning form the destination countries, and (b) those aspiring to migrate legally with skills needed in the destination countries. The project also address skills development-related challenges faced by the indigenous and other groups in the areas affected by climate change including the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
ACTION/Portugal (Phase 2) – Strengthening Social Protection Systems in Sao Tome and Principe The project has four immediate objectives: 1. Governments have developed and implemented policies, plans and programmes to extend social protection (including health) coverage and/or modified the legal framework to extend social protection in line with the guarantees of social protection systems and floors, within the framework of the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 2. The countries, and in particular their social protection institutions and workers’ and employers' organizations, have developed, through training activities, their capabilities and skills for implementing, monitoring and evaluating policies, strategies and programmes related to strengthening and extension of social protection systems and programmes; 3. The countries have improved their social protection statistics, including the collection, preparation, analysis and dissemination of reliable and quality data to monitor their progress in achieving the SDGs; 4. Social protection actors have improved access to knowledge and their ability to participate in the global campaign for the extension of social protection, and have transferred good practices to other countries in the field of South-South and Triangular Cooperation.
Strengthening social dialogue in GAP factories in Bangladesh The ready-made garment (RMG) industry is one of the main contributors to economic growth in Bangladesh, and it is the country's main export industry (83.49% of total export revenue in 2017/18).The RMG industry is also an extremely important provider of employment in the country, in particular low-skilled, entry jobs for young women and men without education or qualifications. While the growth of the RMG sector from a small number of factories in the 1980s to some 5,000 factories by the 2010s is an undoubted success story, the rapid growth must now be matched by a development of working conditions and rights. Following major garment factory accidents in 2012 and 2013, the ILO (International Labour Organization) developed a comprehensive programme to support the country’s efforts to engage in a much-needed reform process, to improve safety, working conditions and rights at work in this sector, including workers’ and employers’ right to organise, bargain and dialogue at the workplace. While notable progress has been made, it is important to realize the industrial relations challenges still being faced by both workers and employers in Bangladesh at enterprise-level, and to build the capacity of factories through the identification of these challenges, and the development of mutually agreeable, practical solutions. This initiative aims to build on the social dialogue and industrial relations factory-facing and capacity building work of the Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations (SDIR) Project and Better Work Bangladesh (BWB), who will closely collaborate to ensure the delivery of smooth, timely and relevant training to further promote social dialogue and harmonious industrial relations in fifty Gap supplier factories and vendors in Bangladesh. Gap supplier factories are partners of BWB and have shown commitment to good workplace cooperation. SDIR and BWB have designed this initiative in consultation with Gap to build on this knowledge in factories and to take social dialogue in these factories to a more advanced level. A comprehensive package of trainings to improve grievance mechanisms, build human resource management systems, improve collective bargaining and negotiation skills and training on ILS and Bangladesh Labour Act is being rolled out in these factories. In order to ensure the sustainability and integration of this training package, and as part of our current partnership intervention with factories, BWB enterprise advisors (EA) regularly follows up on the factories’ progress around social dialogue and industrial relations. This information feeds into the continuous improvement cycle and help to identify gaps, progress and informs the on-going provision of needs based training.
Integrated Programme on Fair Recruitment (FAIR) - Phase II - Tunisia component The project is based on a three-pronged approach: 1) implementing fair recruitment processes in selected migration corridors and sectors, 2) providing reliable information, improved services including facilitating access to justice, to migrant workers in the recruitment process and 3) producing and disseminating global knowledge and guidance about fair recruitment, including through the media. This integrated project has been developed and will be implemented jointly by the ILO’s Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch (FUNDAMENTALS) and the Labour Migration Branch (MIGRANT), as an integral part of the ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative.
ACTION/Portugal (Phase 2): Strengthening of Social Protection Systems in Mozambique The project has four immediate objectives: 1. The government has developed and implemented policies, plans and programmes to extend social protection (including health) coverage and/or modified the legal framework to extend social protection in line with the guarantees of social protection systems and floors, within the framework of the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 2. The country, and in particular its social protection institutions and workers’ and employers' organizations, has developed, through training activities, its capabilities and skills for implementing, monitoring and evaluating policies, strategies and programmes related to strengthening and extension of social protection systems and programmes; 3. The country has improved its social protection statistics, including the collection, preparation, analysis and dissemination of reliable and quality data to monitor its progress in achieving the SDGs; 4. Social protection actors have improved access to knowledge and their ability to participate in the global campaign for the extension of social protection, and have transferred good practices to other countries in the field of South-South and Triangular Cooperation.
Employment through Labour Intensive Infrastructure in Jordan, Phase III To support the Government of Jordan in their response to the Syrian refugee crisis, the German Government, through the German Development Bank (KfW), has made funds available to the ILO in July 2016 and November 2017 for Phase I and II of the Programme on Employment through Labour Intensive Infrastructure in Jordan. The programme aims to improve the living conditions of Syrian refugees and Jordanians through increased employment and improved infrastructure. Phase I and Phase II of this programme have a total budget of EUR 20 million. Phase I covered the period July 2016 to October 2017 while Phase II will run from November 2017 to December 2018. Workshops with the implementing ministries to take stock of progress thus far and consider what lessons have been learned were conducted in November 2017 and a project evaluation of Phase I has already started. The findings of the workshops and the evaluation will be used to further fine-tune the programme, in close collaboration with KfW. This is Phase III, for the period January 2018 to June 2019 (18 months), for which the ILO has requested an additional budget of EUR 5 million.
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Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme in Lebanon: Phase III Responding to the continuing Syrian refugee crisis, phase III of the Lebanon Employment Intensive Infrastructure Project (EIIP) will build on the past 2 years of experience of employment intensive work in Lebanon, working in partnership with UNDP in the Framework of Phase I and Phase II of EIIP, to create jobs for vulnerable Lebanese host community members and Syrian refugees. Local Resource-Based Technology and Decent Work strategies will be applied in labour-based construction of locally prioritised productive infrastructure, maintenance and environmental works. Easing the strain on local infrastructure and services, as well as by providing jobs for both refugees and host community members, will strengthen resilience of host communities and reduce tensions within the labour force. Capacity support to the Government of Lebanon (Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Social Affairs) will establish an institutional mechanism to expand such labour-based and decent work approaches in future government and international aid programmes.
Strengthening the technical capacity of the labour inspection to promote compliance with national labour laws in the rural sector in Colombia The Project will improve technical competences of labour inspection in Colombia to promote compliance with fundamental rights at work, including OSH, in order to increase the number and effectiveness of their interventions in rural agricultural sector in selected departments.
ILO initiative for Labour Migration, Employment and Reintegration in Nigeria and Ghana Labour migration remains a feature of contemporary labour markets requiring effective measures at all stages of the migration process including economic reintegration of returning migrants. In view of the potential benefits labour migration offers to both origin and destination countries, it is increasingly prioritized by national and international agendas, which is highlighted by both the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has adopted a number of migration related instruments including the Free Movement of Persons’ Protocols and is developing a regional migration policy. Nigeria adopted a National Policy on Labour Migration in 2014 and Ghana is currently developing a separate labour migration policy. The project "Initiative for Labour Migration, Employment and Reintegration in Nigeria and Ghana" builds on and works with existing efforts to strengthen labour migration governance, enhance employment prospects of potential or return migrants and support the reintegration of returnees.
Promoting a model for sustainable livelihoods and social cohesion in Bassikounou Moughataa through on-site construction training This project aims to strengthen livelihoods initiatives and social cohesion of Malian refugees and host communities in Mauritania by promoting labor market integration and value chain development in M’bera Camp and its surrounding villages. The project has three main objectives: Objective 1. Young women and men from different communities, including both refugees and local youth, improve their employability and simultaneously gain work experience by completing on-site training in labor-intensive construction works which focuses on practical exercise and provides certification. Objective 2. Decent work opportunities are created through the promotion of humanitarian-development nexus, the development of economic activities and the construction of basic community infrastructure using the employment-intensive approach and maximizing the use of local materials, as per the needs identified by value chain and market analysis. Objective 3. Local economic development is promoted through entrepreneurship and enterprise development, rural business support and youth insertion services, LED capacity building training and through the strengthening of partnerships with local relevant actors (programs, cooperatives, civil society, enterprises, and local authorities).