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Support the review of the 2007 National Employment Policy and the strengthening of the Ministry of labour and key stakeholders' capacities on policy development and implementation
Strengthening the employability of youth in Montenegro Knowing that youth development, empowerment and transition to labour market involves multifaceted approach, analyses and interventions, youth policy in Montenegro needs strong focus and dedication of resources for its implementation. Main issues in youth policy field, recognized through Analysis of policy, legal and institutional framework, 2013 (by UN Montenegro) in the areas of youth participation and employment, are: lack of systematic data and knowledge on youth, lack of strategies and policies on youth, poor human and financial resources in implementation of policies, insufficient inter-ministerial cooperation, poor infrastructure, ad-hoc and reactive planning, as well as lack of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. This integrated policy initiative will assist the government in better realizing the following: EU Agenda 2020 guidelines related to education system performance and facilitation of entry of young people to the labour market, UN Youth Strategies, EU Youth strategy, ILO Employment Policy Convention (2014), Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (1958), UN Commission for Social Development resolution adopted in February 2008. This initiative will enable expert support by the UN system to the young country in improving educational outcomes of young people, quality transition to the labour market, creating favourable conditions for decent work and overall youth empowerment. It will also support the ongoing close cooperation between UNICEF, UNDP, ILO and overall UN System with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare as well as other national partners on policy. It will tackle three categories of normative work: (i) inform development of policies with evidence, (ii) support to government and others to develop and integrate the UN/EU norms and standards into legislation, policies and development plans, and (iii) support to government and others to implement legislation and policies based on the international norms, standards, and conventions.
Support to improve occupational safety and health (OSH) in Turkey with a special focus on workplace compliance in the mining and construction sectors This project – the first ILO OSH project in Turkey - was triggered by the Soma mining disaster on 14 May 2014 which took the lives of 301 miners. The project aims at facilitating the improvement of OSH in line with international commitments made, in particular, in the areas of mining and construction, in consultation with the tripartite constituents. Following up on the entry into force of Convention No. 187 in January 2015, an initial focus is to promote a preventative safety and health culture in Turkey, in particular in the areas of construction and mining, among the members of the tripartite National Occupational Health and Safety Council (NOHSC). The endeavours include creating a benchmark for progress related to the renewed efforts to improve OSH by mapping the current national OSH system in Turkey in a National Profile on OSH in line with the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Recommendation, 2006 (No. 197), commissioning a study from the research institution Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) on “Contractual arrangements in the mining sector in Turkey: Forms, Extent, drivers, legal context, and impact on OSH” which the outcomes to be discussed in the tripartite meeting, raising awareness on recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases, commissioning studies on the compliance in national law and practice of Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988, (No. 167) and the Safety and Health in Mining Convention, 1995 (No. 176) which were ratified by Turkey on 23 March 2015, improving enforcement mechanism through labour inspection.
Support the strengthening of social partnerships in eliminating the worst forms of child labour in Uzbekistan
Entrepreneurship Education: Nationalization of the Know About Business The Know About Business (KAB) programme will be nationalized in the vocational training centers, technical colleges and industrial schools in the occupied Palestinian territories through the delivery of TOFs, targeting new teachers under ILO monitoring. This will also allow for the certification of the national KAB trainers as National Key Facilitators (NKFs). The direct beneficiaries of the KAB project are the selected women and men teachers/trainers of the vocational centres under the Ministry of Labour and those of the technical colleges and industrial schools under the Ministry of Education and Higher Education who will participate in the TOFs. The KAB National Facilitators delivering the TOFs will also benefit as they will be assessed for their certification as National Key Facilitators if they completed the certification requirements. Indirect beneficiaries are students enrolled in the training courses of the VTCs, technical colleges and industrial schools. Beneficiaries will also include private sector enterprises who will have better prepared Palestinian employees with entrepreneurship knowledge and displaying entrepreneurial attitudes. The project will contribute towards the creation of employment opportunities and the promotion of entrepreneurship and self-employment among Palestinian youth; by nationalizing the ILO “Know About Business” educational programme in vocational centres under the Ministry of Labour and technical colleges and industrial schools under the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The project falls within the framework of the National Development Strategy for the oPt and contributes to the ILO Country Programme Outcome PSE102. The project will be implemented by the ILO in close coordination with the Palestinian Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. It is considered as phase II of the ILO/UNDP project entitled: "Entrepreneurship Education: Introduction of "Know About Business" in vocational and technical training in the occupied Palestinian territories”
Improving worker rights in globalizing economies The project aims to analyse the effects of labour provisions in trade and investment arrangements, which have been proliferating significantly in the last two decades. The purpose of this analysis is to contribute to strengthening the knowledge base on the effectiveness on international economic governance arrangements dealing with labour standards in terms of improving workers’ rights in the countries concerned. This analysis is carried out in three steps: First, a legal mapping of labour provisions in the available arrangements, notably their normative content and legal implications, will be carried out. Based on this review, the project will, second, analyse to which extent these labour provisions have had an impact on the implementation of labour standards at the domestic level. This analysis will involve an overall review of the available literature and four in-depth case studies of selected countries. This will allow us to identify the effects on labour standards the labour provisions may have had as well as the underlying factors of these effects. In the third part of the project, policy conclusions will be drawn from the empirical research on how to use existing labour provisions more effectively, how to enhance their design and how to ensure coherence with other international arrangements, including the mechanisms of the ILO. The project contributes to meeting the objectives of the Labour Funding Programme by increasing the capacity of policy makers, social partners, and civil society actors regarding the effects of these labour provisions for implementing labour standards in the relevant countries. This would help policy makers to enhance the application of the labour provisions and could assist the social partners to rely on these provisions more effectively. Furthermore, the project and the accompanying tripartite activities are expected to increase social dialogue on the labour provisions and to lead to a better understanding of the relevance of these provisions for social dialogue. The project also identifies various policy options for enhancing the design of existing labour provisions, which would help to further align trade and investment arrangements with social justice concerns.
Situation analysis of existing non-financial services and support for business start-up initiatives targeting Palestinian refugee youth Objectives • Palestinian youth (women and men) between 18 and 30 years selected from inside and outside camps in different areas and with varied educational background;(the Beneficiaries) • UNRWA staff involved in youth livelihood in Education, Relief and Social Services, Employment and others. • CBOs / NGOs providing vocational skill training and credit for Palestinian youth and partner MFIs providing fnancial and non-financial services for youth. Outputs • Report on the situational analysis of existing services and support for business start-up initiatives targeting Palestinian refugee youth. • Provide Executive Summary of the situation analysis report in Arabic. • Proposal for Palestinian youth (women and men) specific self-employment approach with recommendations on: - Technical interventions among existing structures operating in UNRWA and other entity/entities that need to be established or sub-contracted; and - Relevant ILO technical tools and processes for UNRWA to adopt to faciliate youth entry to labor market. Activities • Review available entrepreneurship awareness raising and educational programmes targeting Palestinian youth within UNRWA and with other CBOs / NGOs and MFIs. • Review the career counselling content provided to students pre and post skills training through the UNRWA employment centers and the Education Department. • Review financial support services provided by UNRWA and the various requirements applied to ensure how youth could be encouraged to apply and benefit from these services. • Review any other financial support services provided by other existing entities (CBOs, MFIs etc..) • Review existing non-financial business start - up support services provided to youth and other age groups such as training, coaching, business clinics, mentoring by UNRWA and other existing CBOs.
Community-based confidence building among different ethnic and religious groups through integrated skills training and SME development for the poorest of the poor and most vulnerable in Sri Lanka This new phase will contribute immediate Objective 5: “Increase market absorbability through value chain development and interventions targeting local competitive advantages to accommodate new business entrants and existing businesses to benefit from higher capital and market share growth both in promising sectors” of the original log frame. Overall development Objectives To contribute to sustainable peace and conflict transformation by reducing economic inequalities through creating of sustainable employment and livelihood opportunities for conflict affected population in the Northern Province. Immediate outcome 1 capacity of marginalized groups strengthened in a more sustainable manner for improved production, processing and access to supply chain linkages and markets in agriculture and aquaculture. Output 1 Strengthened capacity of Cooperatives/producer organizations to provide better services to members, to mainstream a gender approach and to build and manage partnerships. Output 2: Improved services, networks and technologies supporting cooperatives participation in supply chain and access to new markets opportunities Output 3: Advocacy and communication at local, provincial and national level for institutionalization and replication of the LEED model as a conflict sensitive approach to support national peace building efforts and reconciliation.
UN Programme on Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness in Ghana – The Workplace Response ILO’s project is anchored under the Joint UN Programme- Thematic Area Two (2): Social Mobilization and Risk Communication. Therefore, ILO contributes to the following outcomes below; o Social Mobilization of key partners (tools, systems and approaches for communication and education ) on EVD o High-Level Advocacy on EVD. To this end, ILO specific outputs are as follows; o Mobilizing workplace social partners and focal points (men and women) on EVD o Engaging Private sector for implementation of BCC Strategy through OSH programmes on EVD o High-level advocacy sessions with Private sector and Informal Sector Trade Associations including those run by women entrepreneurs on EVD
Support global products part of the ACI on "Productivity and working conditions in SMEs"
Integrated actions towards improved and more equitable working conditions for vulnerable groups of workers. Low wages, instability of earnings and overall poor working conditions tend to be concentrated within certain groups of workers (disproportionately women and members of socially disadvantaged groups) and in some sectors, such as domestic work. The ultimate objective of this programme is improved, more equitable working and living standards for workers especially those in vulnerable situations. The programme achieves this by strengthening the capacities of national governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations, and other governance institutions to assess, design and implement effective policies, laws and programmes concerning wages and earnings, working time and other conditions of work. ILO assistance operates at two levels: (i) country level, consisting of direct assistance to national constituents, tailored to specific needs and opportunities; and (ii) global level, building the knowledge base and policy tools necessary for understanding issues and alternative policy measures, which policy- and decision-makers and ILO specialists could use. Countries assisted under the Sida programme in 2014-15 are: Cape Verde, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Tanzania and Zambia.
Promotion of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work as Tools for Peace in Myanmar The political and economic reform process currently taking place in Myanmar and the introduction of genuine democracy and a more open and equitable society, being objectives shared by both the EU and the ILO, is dependent on the continuation and consolidation of the peace process and its ownership by all stakeholders particularly the ethnic peoples who have been the most directly affected by the conflict. To that end, this action proposes a number of distinct target activities each designed to work together towards supporting the consolidation of the peace process. It recognizes that ethnic communities in or in close proximity to the areas of long standing conflict, including in the areas designated for Special Economic Zone (SEZ) development, must see real, lasting benefits out of the peace process.
Technical support on social protection in El Salvador This project aims at developing a social protection floor. In 2009, El Salvador adopted the Universal Social Protection System (SPSU) in order to organize its social protection programmes, both contributory and non-contributory. The SPSU is based on a social protection rights approach and conceptually incorporates the vision of the social protection floor through the combination of universal and focused interventions. The country faces important challenges in terms of the implementation of the system. ILO’s technical support focuses on an actuarial valuation of the Health Insurance and Occupational Health Insurance Schemes at the Salvadoran Institute of Social Security (ISSS), as well as on the improvement of the institutional management to ensure that the extension of contributory coverage functions as a formalization strategy. TILO will provide assistance to strengthen the design of El Salvador's social protection floor and contribute to the formulation of sound implementation strategies.
Support to ACI 2: Jobs and skills for youth - Sudan While pursuing its path toward economic recovery, the Government of Sudan has recognised the importance of enhancing the employment content of its medium-term stabilization packages and long-term development vision. It has therefore committed to the formulation of a National Employment Policy (NEP) with a focus on youth employment. The economic slowdown has impacted the most vulnerable, with young people being disproportionally represented among the vulnerable and informally employed, as well as the working poor. Further support is required to ensure that Sudan’s national development framework prioritizes youth employment (particularly within the new NEP) and that adequate resources are assigned (including at State-level) for the implementation of specific measures.
Support the inter-agency assessment based national dialogue (ABND) through joint UN collaboration
Fair wages and child care: Promoting dignity and equality by empowering workers in the private sector in Jordan The project seeks to empower women working in private companies and private schools to negotiate for better working conditions in terms of fair remuneration systems, gender sensitive HR policies and child care facilities in the workplace. The initiative will be implemented at the national level with some activities focusing on three regions (North (Irbid) , Centre (Amman) and South (to be identified)) selected on the basis of available information on the gender pay gap and available child care services. The intervention will build on two main components “pay equity” and “child care” based on Article 72 of the Labour Law. These two components will work in tandem to ensure that a holistic approach to gender equality at work is delivered. The project will therefore work towards two key outcomes: 1) Fair remuneration systems and non-discrimination policies adopted by ten private schools in Amman and Irbid, and; 2) Access to daycare facilities for working parents secured in ten private institutions that employ at least 100 women.
Improving industrial relations in Cambodia’s garment industry The project aims to improve industrial relations in the garment industry through a mixture of policy advice and capacity building in selected enterprises; at the industry level; and at the national level. At enterprise level, the project will collaborate with an international garment brand (Hennes & Mauritz, H&M) to seek commitments to implement in selected enterprises a Memorandum of Understanding on Improving Industrial Relations in the Garment within those enterprises, and to eliminate so-called “unfair labour practices.” At industry level, the project will work with the Garment Manufacturers of Cambodia (GMAC) and major union con/federations to raise awareness of the MOU and of relevant aspects of the labour law. At national level, the project will work with the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training to improve conciliation skills, clarify rules and procedures concerning industrial relations, and continue to build a database on union registration and Most Representative Status certifications, and collective bargaining agreements.
Integrated support for young women and men in Yemen to access decent work The project aims at building the capacity of skills training providers and business development service providers to improve the employability and the entrepreneurship capacity of young women and men in Yemen; The project will be implemented in mainly three governorates: Sana’a, Adan and Hadramaut. An important knowledge management component will allow for the careful documentation of lessons learnt and good practices to be validated by the project steering committee, before their dissemination.
FORCED LABOUR-NIGER: Irish Aid-ILO Partnership Programme, Phase II, 2014-15 The centuries old practice of traditional slavery continues today in Niger. Men, women and children remain bound in slavery conditions while the status of slave continues to be inherited at birth. Niger has also become both a source and transit country for forced labour and many migrants en route to North Africa and Europe are vulnerable. This project will support a second phase of ILO’s work in Niger that will provide support to the government of Niger to implement aspects of the drafted, but not yet implemented, national action plan to combat slavery and forced labour. The project will support three areas of intervention that will assist Niger in the implementation of its national action plan: (a) strengthen Niger’s institutional framework, especially the national commission on slavery and forced labour, b) strengthen the capacity of the association of traditional chiefs of Niger (ACTN) and other local organisation that fight against slavery and forced labour and provide support to victims, (c) increase the level of awareness of the general public on forced labour, human trafficking and slavery.
Outcome 14_GLOBAL: Freedom of Association Collective Bargaining, 2014-15 (Norway-ILO Partnership Programme 2012-15) The project Promoting the Right to Freedom of Association and the Right to Collective Bargaining- Phase II will be working with the tripartite constituents in twelve target countries (Bolivia, Brazil, China, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Togo & Zambia) and at the global level to advance the realization of the ILO’s fundamental principles and rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining. At country level, the project will work towards an improved respect for freedom of association and collective bargaining rights in law and practice based on increased capacity, including in areas such as labour disputes prevention and resolution and data collection on violations of trade unionists’ civil liberties. It will also raise awareness and increase the knowledge on freedom of association and collective bargaining rights, both at the national and international level for the relevant tripartite constituents. While working at the country level, the project will focus in particular on three sectors: agriculture, mining and Ready-Made Garment (RMG). At the global level, the project will increase the knowledge base and capacity of the ILO to implement high impact strategies with a focus on two of the three sectors mentioned above. This project shares the same strategic approach to the promotion of freedom of association and collective bargaining rights as the complementary project GLO/14/66/SID “Promoting the Right to Freedom of Association and the Right to Collective Bargaining - Sweden”.
Raising Awareness of Social Protection Floors There has been a growing awareness that the establishment of social protection floors is a key element to reduce poverty and inequalities in Asia and the Pacific region where persistent poverty and growing inequality remains after the two economic crisis. A study indicates that more than 80 percent of workers are engaged in informal economy in the region, thus skills training and employment promotion are also recognized as one of the important aspects to develop social protection floors. In response to this, the Japanese Government and the ILO signed the Framework for Cooperation by ILO/Japan Fund for Building Social Safety Nets in Asia and the Pacific (the “SSN Fund”) on 15 June, 2011. The SSN Fund aims to establish and extend social protection floors in the region through various projects which include, but not limited to, (1) developing social security system, (2) fostering occupation safety and health, (3) providing skills trainings, (4) eradication of child labour and (5) promoting decent work. The SSN Fund also supports livelihood recovery projects in the disaster affected areas to provide immediate relief and preparedness for disasters in the areas, which is one of the unique and strategic components of the SSN Fund as the region remains prone to the natural disasters. The project aims at increasing awareness of social protection floors in the region and the visibility of the SSN funds through publicity tools such as videos.