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Promoting Women’s Equal Access to Economic Opportunities and Decent Work in Palestine Palestinian women’s limited access to decent work opportunities is a manifestation of the discrimination they face in labour markets. Research has also shown that deficiencies in skills training of educated and uneducated women hinder their access to decent jobs; where there is a mismatch between the skills needed and labour market requirements. Palestinian women continue to experience higher rates of unemployment than men at the national level. This gap widens with the absence of effective law reinforcement mechanisms by the government particularly through inspection of workplace conditions, policies against violence and sexual harassments in the work place and having in place mechanisms for holding employers accountable towards ensuring safe and decent working conditions for women in all economic sectors. To address these issues this project aims a) to strengthen capacities of young women (employed and self-employed) in West Bank and Gaza Strip, especially the most excluded and marginalized, through equipping them with market oriented skills and confidence to enhance their livelihood potential and access to decent jobs. b) to create enabling enviornment for more gender responsive labour laws, policies and practices. It also aims to support national efforts and effective policy dialogue amongst the governmental, private, and non-governmental bodies to mainstream gender equality in West Bank and Gaza Strip, including unions, to promote gender responsive policies related to the world of work.
Creating peaceful societies through improved management of natural resources, women's land tenure rights and economic empowerment in Sierra Leone Fostering women’s empowerment and access to political, legal, economic, and social rights is a core dimension of peacebuilding efforts. In Sierra Leone, land tenure and access to natural resources with economic exclusion lie at the heart of this debate. The complex land tenure and ownership system and unequal access to natural resources are among the primary causes of conflicts in Sierra Leone. Farmers – particularly women – operate in an informal and precarious system without sufficient legal safeguards. The project is time-sensitive, as the new Government has committed to the implementation of a long overdue land reform as well as a National Gender Strategy, both of which, on paper commit to non-discrimination and gender equality within an overhauled land tenure system. The project is innovative, being the only initiative in the country that combines the promotion of women’s land tenure security, economic empowerment, and peacebuilding, anchored on the implementation of land policy. The project will enhance women’s access to and control over land and at the same time strengthen their economic opportunities through business skills and knowledge, gender-sensitive financial products and ability to cooperate effectively. The project is also in line with the Government’s efforts to foster national cohesion, as dialogue will augment local conflict preventions and peaceful resolution of disputes, with the support of a network of trained insider mediators. The project relies on innovative methods in its implementation, including the use of an innovative geospatial technology “System for Open Land Administration (SOLA)” an Open Tenure software developed by FAO, with a gender-sensitive, community-based approach to record land rights and tenure relationships in the field, including rules on tenure dispute resolution. Improving the governance of tenure will require engaging a broad range of stakeholders with different and sometimes conflicting interests. Building on the existing wide consensus on the need to strengthen women’s empowerment and participation at all levels of society, as well as to sustain social cohesion by preventing escalation and political use of land conflicts. The project will serve as catalyst to mobilize local and national political will to engage powerful elites who benefit from weak tenure governance and in a system that engenders women’s exclusion.
Accelerating action for the elimination of child labour in supply chains in Africa The project has the overarching goal to accelerate the elimination of child labour in Africa, through targeted actions in selected supply chains in Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda. To achieve this goal, the Project has identified four inter-related components (i.e. three outcomes and one cross-cutting knowledge component). The Project will work on a) public policy and good governance; b) empowerment and representation, and c) partnership and knowledge sharing among global supply chain actors working in Africa. In addition, the Project will be supported by continuous research and identification of good practices from the Project implementation and from other sources. Gender is considered as cross-cutting theme; all outcomes will address gender-strategic needs.
ILO-OECD-WHO Working for Health Programme (W4H) The project reflects the ILO contribution to the joint ILO-OECD-WHO Working for Health (W4H) programme which emerged from the findings of the High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth (HEEG). By joining forces, the ILO, OECD and WHO provide coordinated policy advice, technical assistance, and capacity strengthening programmes to assist Member States enhancing national health workforce strategies and policies. The ILO contribution to the Programme focuses on strengthening the employment and decent work component and enhancing social dialogue among all stakeholders. The development objective is the accelerated progress towards Universal Health Coverage and relevant SDGs (SDG 3, 4, 5 and 8), through an expanded and transformed health workforce. The project operates at global, regional and country level. At global level, the expected outcome is that coherent health workforce data inform effective policy planning, monitoring and international mobility. To this end, ILO contributes to the Inter-Agency Data Exchange and to the International Platform on Health Worker Mobility. The project supports two regional initiatives to develop sub-regional multi-sectoral health workforce strategies, notably in the South-African Development Community and in the West-African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). The project also provides supported to different countries (Guinea, Niger, Rwanda, South Africa) in the development of multi-sectoral enhanced health workforce strategies. The scope of countries may increase over time.
Trade for Decent Work This project aims at improving the application of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) fundamental Conventions in European Union (EU) trading partner countries and contributes to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8, through improved labour relations and working conditions. It has been conceived as a framework including: a Global Facility providing ad hoc support to on-going needs that might arise in partner countries or on global initiatives; and a Country-focused Facility supporting each year a number of target countries based on annual work plans and budgets to be submitted to the European Commission (EC) for financing. The project will start with a set of countries agreed by ILO and the EC (Bangladesh, Myanmar and Vietnam).
Junior Professional Officer - DWT-Bangkok Junior Professional Officer - DWT-Bangkok
Decent work deficits in the tobacco sector of Tanzania adressed This RBSA-funded intervention fits within the follow-up on the decision made by the ILO’s Governing Body at its 334th session concerning an integrated strategy for 2019-22 to address decent work deficits in the tobacco sector. It has been developed based on both the outcome of country-level consultations and the comments of the ILO’s Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations. The initiative addresses decent work deficits and challenges in the tobacco sector in Tanzania with the view to developing good practices with great potential to be replicated and scaled up in other countries of East Africa and beyond. The envisaged work supports appropriate regulations and monitoring systems for decent work in the tobacco sector, with a focus on occupational safety and health and on the elimination of child labour and forced labour. It also contributes to strengthening the capacity of employers’ and workers’ organizations, small-holder farmers and workers themselves to address relevant decent work deficits through social dialogue. Furthermore, assistance to tobacco-growing communities is provided in order to identify and transition to alternative livelihoods. Synergies with key partners such as FAO and WHO help leverage the impact of the ILO’s work. Overall, this initiative seeks to strengthen the virtuous cycle between the ILO’s normative function and technical assistance to member States. It contributes to the country’ efforts to make progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, in particular by advancing towards the attainment of SDG targets 8.7 (Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms); and 2.3 (By 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small-scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment).
Gobernabilidad de las migraciones mejorada en Colombia para promover empleos y trabajo decente This RBSA-funded intervention is part of a coordinated response of the UN system to the Venezuela migration crisis. It aims at promoting decent work for Venezuelan migrants in Colombia at the national level as well as in the cities of Barranquilla and Cali, applying the principles of the Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97) and the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143). The intervention strategy focuses on the functioning of a designated national tripartite mechanism to follow up on the implementation of the labour chapter of the national migration policy, the capacitation of the employers’ and workers’ organizations and of relevant public institutions to promote decent work opportunities for migrant workers. It also addresses the design of a local intervention model to implement the labour chapter of the national migration policy, as an integral part of the municipal development plans. In Barranquilla and Cali, technical assistance is provided to promote migrants’ access to vocational training and employment and information services, as well as to help entrepreneurs to start a business through a management training programme. This intervention contributes to the country’s efforts to advance towards the attainment 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) and target 10.7 (Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies).
Promoting Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in the Cotton Supply Chain The implementation of producers’ and workers’ collective rights is often difficult, in part at least, because of the lack of representation in decision making processes and absence of fora to play an active role in the prevention and remediation of labour rights’ violations. But also because of persisting legal and practical barriers. These barriers can include the exclusion of rural workers from national legislation to challenges related to the organization of workers in dispersed and remote rural areas and, very often, the low capacity of rural producers’ and workers’ organizations. The project should address these challenges and try to address these issues with a broader process of social dialogue. This project will contribute to the implementation of Decent Work in the cotton supply chain by supporting the implementation of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in four major cotton producers, namely, China, India, Pakistan and Mali. It will also support social dialogue on fundamental principles and rights at work at the global and industry levels (global, industry level, workplace and communities), with the aim of supporting a viable system of industrial relations.
Sharing knowledge and information for youth employment and migrations The overall objective of this project is to strengthen actions to promote youth employment and regular migration. This objective will be achieved through two outputs: Information products are prepared by and for young people on employment and migration; and knowledge exchange is boosted on what "works best" in the field work on youth employment and migration.
Strengthen capacity of member states to ratify and apply International Labour Standards and to fulfil their reporting obligations The project provides technical support in the framework of the Decent Work Country Programme for Ukraine (2016-2019). The main aim of the intervention is to protect wages by improving the national normative framework through social dialogue. The project has three components: wage arrears, minimum wage and equal pay. The three-pronged intervention strategy consists of (1) providing evidence, building on an analysis of the causes of problems, experience of what works in other countries notably in Eastern Europe, and on the review of relevant legislation related to compliance with international labour standards, (2) building capacity of the social partners; and (3) facilitating tripartite discussions to reach an agreement on the possible package of measures to address the wage arrears, establish a minimum wage fixing mechanism, and amend the legislation to ensure equal pay for work of equal value. The project contributes to the country’s efforts to advance towards the attainment of SDG target 5.1 (End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere), target 8.5 (By 2013, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value), and target 10.4 (Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality).
PECOBAT : Amélioration de l’employabilité des jeunes et des capacités des PME par le développement du sous-secteur du BTP PECOBAT : Amélioration de l’employabilité des jeunes et des capacités des PME par le développement du sous-secteur du BTP
Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) Policy in Asia This project aims to conduct research on the status of SSE in Asia with a proposed analytic framework; assess the impact of SSE on job creation; and provide technical support to the countries in need to develop or strengthen their SSE policies and programmes.
ILO Toolkit for Quality Apprenticeships Volume II: Guide for practitioners to develop and implement apprenticeship programmes Quality Apprenticeship systems can contribute towards matching skills in demand in the labour market with skills acquired in education and training systems, enhancing youth employability through the acquisition of relevant skills, personal development and recognized qualification. Yet, despite numerous benefits afforded by apprenticeships, many countries, particularly developing ones, have challenges in establishing, scaling up and sustaining high-quality apprenticeships. The Toolkit for Quality Apprenticeships aims to equip policy makers and practitioners with the advice and knowledge on how to build Quality Apprenticeship systems and programmes. It will consist of two volumes: Guide for Policy Makers (Volume 1) and Guide for practitioners to develop and implement apprenticeship programmes (Volume II). While Volume I of the series presented the defining features of the ILO’s approach to quality apprenticeship systems and aimed to support policymakers in the design of national apprenticeship systems, Volume II will focus on the practicalities of developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating quality apprenticeship programmes. The primary target group for the Guide is composed of the practitioners in TVET institutions, intermediary organizations, enterprises and other organisations responsible for designing and managing apprenticeship programmes. This Guide will include a compendium of tools used by the key stakeholders of the Quality Apprenticeships value chain; taking best practices and examples from various developed, emerging & developing countries, and provide essential templates.
Supporting the implementation of the road map on tackling undeclared work in Greece The objective of this project component is to provide support to the Ministry of Labour (MLSSSS) in the implementation of the roadmap on tackling undeclared work in Greece. This will notably include helping prepare ASE meetings related to the implementation of the road map, providing evidence-based support, coordinating the implementation of some of the recommendations of the roadmap, and facilitating dicussions with social partners about the completion of some of the recommendations included in the Roadmap in the framework of the Tripartite Committee. Such support will strengthen trust and cooperation among the Government and the social partners to find an effective, balanced path to fight undeclared work. This activity results from an explicit request from the Ministry and social partners who acknowledged the positive role played by the ILO in that process and who stressed the need for a continuation of the ILO support to implement the roadmap through social dialogue
Programa de Asistencia Técnica - Derrama Magisterial This two year partnership with Derrama Magisterial strengthens and contributes to the welfare of teachers, autonomously and complementary to the national system of social protection.
Supporting Resilient Livelihoods and Food Security in Yemen joint programme (ERRY II) - through UNDP The overall objective of the programme is to contribute to reduced vulnerability and strengthened resilience capacity of crisis-affected communities in Yemen through creation of sustainable livelihoods and access to basic services. The joint programme expected to achieve the following results over the implementation timeframe: Output 1. Community livelihoods, productive assets and food security are improved to strengthen resilience and self relianace; output 2. Vulnerable communities benefit from solar energy for sustainable livelihoods opportunities and enhanced social service delivery; and output 3: Communities and local authorities have enhanced capacities to respond to conflict and gender sensitive priorities needs.
Building Capacity for Effective Employment Services in Sub-Saharan Africa and MENA This project proposal aims at contributing to strengthening the capacity of Public and Private Employment Services Providers in selected countries in the MENA and SSA regions through provision of tailored trainings in employment services and sharing of international practices and experiences to members of the Community of Practice (CoP) established under the GIZ Global Initiative on Innovative Employment Services for Youth, “YouMatch II” Programme in order to reinforce the capacities of the CoP members so that the CoPs manage to transfer approaches amongst partner countries and ultimately formulate policy recommendations and provide technical expertise especially for collaborating regional bodies. The aim of the YouMatch II Programme is to improve employment services for the youth through exchange of good practices and capacity building among organizations that implement employment services in the public, private and third sectors in a concerted manner and to influence policy at the national, regional and continental levels.
Apoyo a la politica de HIV/SIDA del sector caficultor de Guatemala 19 The immediate objectives of the project are: Develop a strategy or roadmap for the Ministry of Health to implement prevention and care actions in the agricultural sector; and design a training pilot for the agricultural sector to be applied by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with Funcafé.
More and better jobs created for sustainable livelihood opportunities for youth and women This RBSA-funded intervention aims at realising more and better decent employment outcomes for youth – a priority of the ILO’s tripartite constituents aligned to the 7th National Development Plan. The strategy focuses on strengthening skills to improve the employability of youth and to increase competencies in enterprise development, as well as to facilitate access to finance and markets. Interventions are implemented in the formal, informal and rural economies of job-rich sectors in Lusaka, Copperbelt and North-Western Provinces, with a human rights-based approach, promoting gender equality and non-discrimination and including persons with disabilities. To ensure that skills are appropriate to the relevant industries, the strategy promotes private sector participation in work-based learning, including internships, apprenticeships, industrial attachments and learnerships. The intervention also includes the review of labour laws to ensure alignment to international labour standards, the provision of advice on employment and active labour market policies, the promotion of employment intensive investment programmes and the development of the institutional capacity of the Government and the social partners in these areas. The project contributes to the attainment of several SDG targets, focusing on SDG target 4.4 (By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship); SDG target 8.2 (Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors) and SDG target 8.5 (By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value).
Better Factories Cambodia (former CMB/11/50/USA) Better Factories Cambodia (former CMB/11/50/USA)
UNCT SDG Integrated Solutions Platforms: VET - industry collaboration The project will document good practices of VET-industry partnership and disseminate them. In addition, the project intends to take two-step strategy and generate impact in the long run while concentrating its activities in the short run. In the short run, key stakeholders understand the importance of VET-industry partnership and employers’ organizations support the partnership model in VET. In the long run, the Ministry of Manpower, the Ministry of Education and Culture, and the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs revisit the skills development policies and regulations to the favour of deeper VET-industry partnership. By promoting VET-industry partnership, the government will be able to save VET cost in industrial zones where such collaboration is feasible and re-allocate freed resources to improve VET in rural areas or make strategic investment in digitalizing VET.