ILO Projects
China
Implementation of national employment policies strengthened through improving knowledge and services for employability, employment and enterprise development. Under the Joint UN Climate Change Partnership Framework, funded by the Spanish MDG funds, the ILO has agreement to incorporate green concerns into all levels of the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) China programme. This programme is currently run by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. This initiative will build directly off the back of that programme, utilizing the existing infrastructure already provided by the SIYB network, for example, training of trainers, and linkage to financing. In terms of national development priorities, linkages exist both under environmental and employment issues: - Environmental outcomes – UNDAF Outcome 3: More efficient management of natural resources and development of environmentally-friendly behaviour in order to ensure environmental sustainability (with special focus on energy, biodiversity and water resources). Linked to National Priority: Balancing People and Nature; - Employment issues – UNDAF Outcome 1: Social and economic policies are developed and improved to be more scientifically based and human centres for sustainable and equitable growth. Linked to National Priority: Promoting growth with equity by reducing disparities, balancing economics and social development and focusing on poverty reduction. You can find more information regarding the ILO projects in China here (website of the ILO Country Office in Beijing).
Bangladesh
Improved skills training and entrepreneurship for enhanced employability and livelihoods. In Bangladesh, the ILO will build off existing work that Grameen has already established through its Grameen Shakti programme which focuses on providing access to renewable energy in rural areas. This programme already has an established financing scheme and mechanism for reaching out to rural areas and is currently providing training, particularly to women, on how to service and repair the technologies being implemented, for example, solar panels. However, the employment potential that results from access to energy is still untapped. The initiative will partner with Grameen and introduce entrepreneurship and skills training for men and women promoting the use of renewable energy technologies. As Grameen already has an existing pool of trainers, the initiative will likely work with them to conduct training of trainers based on existing ILO tools and packages. Climate change and responses to it is a high priority issue for the Government of Bangladesh. In its recently- announced budget the Government has accorded high priority to climate change and to strengthening and enhancing national capacity for Disaster Management and Environment. This initiative links to UNDAF National Priority 2: Health, Nutrition and Sustainable Population, and Country Outcome 4: Carrying capacity of the environment and natural resources base is enhanced.
In order to learn more about ILO projects in Bangladesh, please refer to the following link: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/newdelhi/countries/bangladesh.htm.
India
Decent and productive employment integrated into socio-economic policies through policy/action research & integrated sectoral and area-based approaches for sustainable livelihoods, emphasizing informal economy workers. India’s 11th Five-Year Plan focuses on “faster and inclusive growth”. The Plan accords great importance to building environmental concerns into the country’s development strategy and includes a special chapter on Environment & Climate. This initiative links to UNDAF Outcome 4: By 2012 the most vulnerable people, including women and girls, and government at all levels have enhanced abilities to prepare, respond, and adopt/recover from sudden and slow onset of disasters and environmental changes.
Decent work deficits, including those relating to the environment, are pervasive in India, particularly in the informal economy. In this connection, the ILO office in India is looking to adopt tools developed under other programmes, including value chain interventions in other countries, to address local needs. This initiative will help fill this need by partnering with a local training institution (Development Alternatives) to establish a livelihood training academy. Development Alternatives has extensive experience of working in India and a ready pool of microfinance institutions that it has partnered with previously.
More information about ILO initiatives in India can be found here (website of the ILO Country Office New Delhi).
For more ILO work on Green Jobs, please refer to the following link: http://www.ilo.org/integration/greenjobs/lang--en/index.htm
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