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Thirteenth Actuarial Review of the Social Security and Redundancy Funds as of 31 December 2017 Description of the Project Strategy The conduct of the Thirteenth Actuarial Review of the Social Security and Redundancy Funds, as of 31 December 2017 is primarily aimed at assisting the DSS in ensuring the long-term financial sustainability of the DSS. The Review 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 Fund. It follows international standards of actuarial practice requirements. The outcome of the project will focus on ensuring employers and workers covered for the different benefit branches covered by DSS can rely on a sustainable system in its comprehensive whole and at the level of each benefit branch. The Review will: ¿ Provide information to evaluate whether or not the DSS is operating on a sound financial basis and the Fund’s financial sustainability over a 60-year period, or any necessary period to secure the benefits provided by the scheme; ¿ Facilitate a better understanding of the factors that influence costs and the risks and thus contributes to informed policy positions related to both the finances of the DSS and recommended modifications to the DSS. Historically, the Employment injury benefits paid by the DSS have been low when compared to international standards. Due to the insignificant cost of these benefits, this branch has been financed on a pay-as-you go basis, even though this branch is also paying long-term benefits in case of disability and death. For the Employment injury branch, this Review will analyse: ¿ The coverage in terms of different categories of workers (employed, self-employed, apprentices, possibly by economic sector); ¿ The benefit adequacy in terms of the relevant conventions; ¿ Financing method: o Current liabilities compared to reserve, o Contribution rate adequacy based on terminal funding for long-term benefits, o Contingency reserves for short-term benefits. In formulating its recommendations, the ILO will adhere, as appropriate, to the International Actuarial Association (IAA) international actuarial practice standards for social security programmes2, the joint ILO-ISSA Actuarial Guidelines for Social Security3 and the standards of practice of the Caribbean Actuarial Association4. Due attention will be given to ensuring that the principles of gender equality in the domain of social security are taken into account. The analysis and projection of the financial position and financing requirements for the sustainability of the DSS benefit schemes will be based on age- and sex-disaggregated data for insured contributors as well as beneficiaries in line with ILO long-established actuarial methodology. It will hence contribute to the clarification of the outcomes in relation to gender dimensions at present as well as in the future.
Programme d'Appui à la Promotion de l'Emploi et à la Réduction de la Pauvreté (APERP III) Programme d'Appui à la Promotion de l'Emploi et à la Réduction de la Pauvreté (APERP III)
Plan Conjoint des Nations Unies de Lutte contre le VIH - Sida à Madagascar Améliorer et renforcer la mise en œuvre de la politique nationale de lutte contre le VIH et le Sida en milieu de travail pour apporter une contribution réelle du monde de travail dans les actions menées au niveau de Madagascar. Les objectifs spécifiques viseront à: appuyer le processus de l’alignement de la politique nationale de lutte contre le VIH et sida en milieu de travail avec le PSN et autres documents cadres nationaux; renforcer les actions de sensibilisations pour toucher la catégorie des travailleurs encore non touchée par les acteurs dans les structures formelles; et appuyer les SMEs dans leur planification pour pouvoir améliorer le service de dépistage des travailleurs et de leurs familles.
Eighth Actuarial valuation of the Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) and the comprehensive study to review the coverage and benefits of the Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI) The objective of this development cooperation (DC) project is to assist Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI), as the principal responsible government agency for Social Insurance for private sector workers in Oman, in conducting its 8th Actuarial Valuation and in the formulation of a comprehensive policy strategy for reforming and strengthening PASI social protection system in the context of the broader social protection system in Oman.
EFM GUYANA 2023 Contract related to: EFM GUYANA 2023 - Financing decision for the years 2022 and 2023 for financing EU electoral missions and complementary activities.
FRESHPPACT: Single Use Plastic Mitigating Pollution from single-use plastic packaging used in fresh produce (FRESHPPACT)
IMMANA: Political Economy Analysis of Food Industry (PEAFI) Unpacking the influence of the food industry on adolescent consumption of ultra-processed food in Sub-Saharan Africa
Zambia Strengthening Climate Resilience (PPCR Phase II) Project Strengthen national institutional structures, strategic planning, coordination, and awareness for climate resilience, and enhance the adaptive capacity of vulnerable rural communities in the Barotse subbasin
Private Sector Support to Climate Resilience in Zambia The proposed additional investment activities provide opportunities to support investments in improved climate resilient technologies through funding for technical cooperation activities, offering incentive payments and small grants to private businesses, farmers and households. Having a robust participatory process (CRAFTs) which could facilitate continued support/training for the private sector and the climate information services, provides the required enabling environment and a basis to bring about climate resilience at scale through private-sector and market based approaches. The overall concept is to build a national widespread presence and network in the country of public and private actors that will facilitate widespread diffusion of climate resilient technologies and farming practices to improve yields and sustain livelihoods. In addition, the project would contribute to the achievement of the World Bank Cascade Objective, with the aim to build climate resilience in the sub-basins by mobilizing/catalyzing private sector investments in economic sectors such as agriculture and natural capital and by providing technical support to relevant private sector players in Zambia
Strengthening Climate Resilience in the Kafue Sub-Basin Strengthen the adaptive capacity of vulnerable rural communities to respond to climate change and variability in priority areas of the highly populated Kafue River Basin
GPAF-IMP-072 Improving mother and child health services for 42,000 beneficiaries in three districts of Sierra Leone The "Improving mother and child health services for 42,000 beneficiaries in three districts of Sierra Leone" project aims to provide effective maternal and child health care at all health care levels in the targeted areas of Bo, Tonkolili and Bombali Districts through skilled attendance, increased community participation and ownership and improve quantity and quality of human resources for health, especially midwives. The project is located in 33 MRC supported rural government clinics and in the midwifery school in Makeni and has 42,000 direct and 733,000 indirect beneficiaries.;
Mitigating climate change effects through traditional land management practices Project develops strategies and participatory processes with stakeholder perspectives to be used in adaptation and mitigation measures required to tackle climate change, assessing climate data and traditional land management methods in Yemen. SDG 13 Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Conservation of Climate Change Endangered Cultural Furniture Industry Heritage in Damietta, Egypt Climate change poses a major threat to cultural and industrial heritage conservation in Damietta. Not only does sea-level rise endanger significant heritage sites, but also puts at risk the conservation and continuance of cultural values and practices that form irreplaceable layers of history in this community, embodied in the local craft and value chain, as well as the industry's social capital and spatio-temporal networks. Critically, the interrelated tangible and intangible cultural heritage directly affect the city's resilience and economic growth. This project aims to examine, quantitatively map and promote the cultural and economic resilience of Damietta, which is under threat from climate change and contemporary political decision-making that is insensitive to its socio-cultural heritage. By documenting and highlighting indigenous knowledge and the tangible cultural heritage of this craft industry and its social networks, a strong case can be made to protect these practices and save the economic livelihood of the city's inhabitants. The methodology adopts a mixed methods approach, comprising interviews, focus groups and stakeholder workshops, which verify a geospatial GIS network map based on field survey. The research utilises Network Theory, Social Capital Theory and Competitive Advantage Theory as a basis for the evidence to quantity Social Capital and visualise its resilience in relation to space. The project outputs include visual GIS mapping of Social Capital networks as cultural heritage, online interactive platform as a shared arena for furniture industry community awareness towards climate change mitigation, recommendations for inclusive decision-making for municipalities and local authorities, as well as building the case for Damietta's furniture industry network for recognition in UNESCO's ICH programme. This project tackles several UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that relate to cultural heritage, economic growth/reform and sustainability in terms of climate action: decent work and economic growth; industry and innovation; sustainable cities and communities; and climate action (SDG 8, 9, 11, and 13). This offers an opportunity for data-driven sustainable development in Egypt, which is included in the ODA list on reporting for 2020 aid to mitigate against climate change. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
The Law of Protracted Conflict: Overcoming the Humanitarian-Development Divide Contemporary armed conflicts have become protracted, complex and urbanised with far-reaching socio-economic consequences, such as severe damage to infrastructure, disruption of services, and protracted displacement. The dire socio-economic dimensions of protracted conflicts, as well as the link between poverty and fragility, render the traditional divide between humanitarian and development assistance unfeasible to address the short- and long-term needs of affected communities. The proposed project will provide a comprehensive analysis of the institutional and substantive legal frameworks within which humanitarian and development assistance are delivered. Its aim is to investigate the extent to which international law enables integrated, sustainable and accountable humanitarian and development assistance in contexts of protracted conflicts. The project will deliver on its aim through three closely connected work packages (WP) that focus on institutions, legal regimes and accountability, respectively. WP 1 charts the multitude of humanitarian and development actors operating in contexts of protracted conflicts and examines whether their mandates, principles, legal relations, and institutional structures are amenable to the creation of a humanitarian-development nexus. WP 2 focuses on the interactions between legal regimes applicable to protracted conflicts, with a view to evaluating whether international law contributes to the creation of the divide between the two sectors or can in fact provide legal common grounds to overcome the divide between them. Lastly, WP 3 assesses the need for new standards and mechanisms to ensure the inclusion of and accountability to affected communities in light of the expanding and interconnected nature of humanitarian and development responses. The project will be the first to approach the divide between humanitarian and development assistance comprehensively from an international law perspective. Moreover, it will clarify the laws that pertain to the underexplored, socio-economic dimensions of protracted conflicts. Therefore, the project will make fundamental advances in the field of international law, as well as the multidisciplinary fields of humanitarianism, development, transitional justice, and peacebuilding. More broadly, the research findings of the project will contribute to some of the fundamental debates in international law, for example, on the evolution of international (humanitarian) law in face of the changing characteristics of armed conflicts, regime interactions and fragmentation of international law, and the expanding role and authority of non-state actors, particularly international organisations, in global governance. Beyond its contributions to scholarship, the project will develop legal and policy recommendations for the interpretation and design of international law and thus engage in knowledge transfer for international cooperation towards the operationalisation of the humanitarian-development nexus. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Fragile heritage ecologies: vernacular cultures and the at-risk landscapes of the Hindu-Kush-Himalaya mountain region The project develops a Fragile Heritage Framework that is participatory and inclusive where host communities co-lead the process of understanding risk and loss concerning their local heritages from social change and climate change. SDG 4, 13 Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Transforming Atmospheric Authority: Experimental Embodiments in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Working with women living in an informal urban community ('favela') that suffers high levels of stigma, poverty, violence, and human rights abuses, our project explores the role played by favela dwellers in challenging and transforming the sometimes stifling emotional atmospheres of the city. The project explores how embodied, non-representational creative practices can enable distressing experiences to be communicated, shared, and creatively transformed. Developing participatory research methods that aim to foster dignity and tackle feelings of isolation and alienation, we focus on women's encounters with the varied atmospheres of the favela: sometimes tense, stifling, or terrifying; often, simultaneously, full of warmth, security, and humour. Working to recognise, affirm, and amplify creative practices through which women in the community are already seeking to overcome feelings of stress and isolation, our research explores how embodied cultural practices can help women develop new understandings and insights into the issues facing them, and reduce barriers to participation in community leadership and advocacy. Our research practices aim to enable emerging understandings to be articulated, shared, and translated into practices that work to reduce violence and promote dignity and community authority. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Developing a novel Climate change Risk Assessment Framework for cultural heritage in Turkey (CRAFT) Turkey is one of the most archaeologically and culturally rich places in the World with 18 UNESCO World Heritage sites, and an additional 78 locations in the tentative list. Flooding and landslides are one of the most destructive types of natural disaster in Turkey. Flood impacts in Turkey are felt severely in major cities of the country. Istanbul (the largest city of Turkey with 15 million inhabitants) and its UNESCO World Heritage historical areas have recently suffered from frequent floods as a result of intense rainfalls under a changing climate. The severe floods of August-September 2009 in the Marmara region of Turkey were categorised as an event greater than the 500-year return period. These floods caused 31 human losses, affected 35,000 people, and led to significant damages in major urban cities, particularly in Istanbul, with an economic loss more than $100 million.  Many parts of the old city centre (Historic Peninsula) of Istanbul were flooded. The Historic peninsula had also suffered from several major floods in December 2010, July 2017, February 2018 and August 2019. Heavy rains cause flooding events more frequently in recent years than in the past. The deadly 2019 floods, rainfall-triggered landslides, and the subsequent moisture problems have resulted in significant structural damages to cultural heritage; in particular Small HagiaSofia and Ahi Çelebi Mosque (which was at that time in a restoration process). Our proposed research will involve susceptibility mapping of cultural heritage to climate-change driven hazards, with a particular focus on the floods and landslides hazards on Istanbul's world heritage sites. The mapping, based on a risk assessment framework, will then be used to develop a response policy. In developing risk assessment frameworks, it is the normal presumption that "heritage assets are irreplaceable and that heritage is a 'non-renewable resource' ". However, the risk assessment framework to be developed within this project will need to recognise the inevitability and potential of loss. We will recognise the inevitability of loss, where the impacts of climate and environmental change may lead to the conclusion that conservation and perpetuation of some monuments are unsustainable. The potential of loss could imply that, where monuments have been damaged by landslides and floods, in addition to the option of reconstructing the heritage to its pre-disaster condition, we should consider a new form of the heritage, where the history of disaster is reflected in the modified monument. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Historicising Natures, Cultures and Laws in the Etosha-Kunene Conservation Territories of Namibia How can conservation of biodiversity-rich landscapes come to terms with the past [Vergangenheitsbewältigung], given historical contexts of extreme social exclusion and marginalisation? How can key biodiversity areas whose global value rests on ahistorical ideas of Nature resist an uncritical presentism, to be better understood as entangled with diverse human histories and values? How can conservation policy and practice recognise deep cultural and linguistic differences around 'the nature of nature'? Our research responds to these questions through a cross-disciplinary humanities programme analysing dynamic dimensions of conservation territories in the Kunene Region of the former German colony that is now Namibia. Kunene's Etosha National Park and neighbouring beyond-Etosha conservation designations are home to diverse indigenous and marginalised peoples. Our research team of three women academics in Germany, the UK and Namibia has a combined 50+ years of ethnographic, archival, oral history and livelihoods enquiry in Etosha-Kunene. We propose a new collaborative three-year programme of six intersecting work packages (WPs): WP1 on 'Historicising Socio-ecological Policy in Etosha-Kunene' offers a detailed discourse analysis and history of public conservation policy affecting natures and peoples associated with the region, interrogating shifting influences, interests and governance technologies; WP2 on 'Comparative Indigenous Perspectives' assembles our long-term research in the region into a new comparative analysis of indigenous Khoe, San and Himba-Herero understandings of natures-beyond-the-human, drawing on current theories in the anthropology of nature; WP3 on 'Making Identity and Indigeneity in Etosha-Kunene' explores how indigenous identities are made, focusing especially on how distinct and intersecting 'Khoe' and 'San' identities have been present(ed) in ethnographic, linguistic, conservation and legal discourse; WP4 on 'Spatialising Coloniality in Etosha-Kunene' (re)traces the thought and practices of selected colonial European actors from the mid-1800s, bringing their written narratives into conversation with indigenous interlocutors inhabiting the same places and spaces (see WP2); WP5 on 'Collecting, Curating and Returning Etosha-Kunene Natures' investigates how the natures of Etosha-Kunene have been both represented and shaped by natural history collections of specimen-artefacts assembled by the (mostly male) European actors we study in WP4; WP6 focuses on public engagements, via a mobile exhibition, a website, and a series of workshops sharing and further exploring issues arising in WPs 1-5. In sum, we offer a multivocal and radically historicised analysis of Etosha-Kunene that contributes new thinking on coloniality, indigeneity and 'natural history'. Our aim is to support conservation laws and praxis to more fully recognise the diversity of pasts, cultures and natures constituting this internationally-valued region. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Peacekeepers As Soldiers And Humanitarians: The Impact Of Contradictory Roles And Responsibilities On The Protection Mandate of Peacekeepers The project conducts research on the currently two largest African peace operation, the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) and the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Both missions have complex mandates and combine military (combat), political (stabilisation/statebuilding) and humanitarian goals. The protection of civilians became a cornerstone of both missions. 
Military peacekeepers are often required to straddle combat and pacific responsibilities, combining military, diplomatic and humanitarian roles. They fight violent actors who are often not easily distinguishable from civilians, patrol roads and convoy humanitarian deliveries, while they are simultaneously requested to develop relations with communities affected by violence, to mediate conflicts and often also to provide humanitarian goods.
The project explores how UN and AU peacekeepers in the DRC and in Somalia fulfil their protection mandate from the perspective of protection providers and protection recipients: military peacekeepers (provider), civilians (recipients) and humanitarian worker (recipients and ideally partners of peacekeepers). It will provide an in-depth and differentiated account on how military peacekeepers navigate their increasingly complex roles, swap between combat and pacific responsibilities and how their protection efforts are experienced at the recipients' end. This knowledge is crucial in improving protection efforts.
The findings of the research will be shared in round tables with all three actor groups. The round tables aim at receiving feed-back on the research. More importantly, they also aim at providing a platform for communication and at stimulating dialogue between military peacekeepers, civil humanitarian actors and civilians. Round tables will be organised by local civil society organisations who partner in the research project, and it is expected that they will uphold communication links even after the research ended.
The findings, i.e. the experiences of the providers and recipients of protection, will feed into a peacekeeping training module. The module will be developed in cooperation with the International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC) in Nairobi. The training will be piloted during a workshop with AU and UN trainers and representatives of military headquarters and military trainers of troop contributing countries. The evaluation of the participants will help to fine-tune the training and to finalize a training handbook that will be made publically available and shared with peacekeeping training centres and military headquarters of troop contributing countries. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.