Publications
October 2015
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PREJAL - Promoting Youth Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
In 2005 the ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean – assisted by the ILO Office in Madrid – began the PREJAL project. This regional initiative for the promotion of youth employment in Latin America is one of the first public-private partnerships in this region to focus on this important issue.
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Eliminating Child Labour and promoting Decent Work in the Stora Enso value chain: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
Stora Enso (SE) is a leading paper, biomaterials, wood products and packaging company with its head offices in Finland and Sweden. Bulleh Shah Packaging (BSP) is its joint venture and agricultural and recycling product supplier. To strengthen its policy and global efforts to promote decent work and eliminate child labour in its value chain in Pakistan, SE has entered into a public-private partnership with the ILO.
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Reducing the worst forms of child labour in tobacco-growing communities in Brazil, Malawi and Zambia: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
The ILO and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) have forged a partnership to achieve greater impact and have, together, established the Achieving Reduction of Child Labour in Supporting of Education (ARISE) programme. By addressing the identified social and economic factors that encourage small-scale tobacco farmers to employ children in dangerous work, the programme prevents and makes strides towards the elimination of child labour in supply chains.
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Eliminating the worst forms of child labour in Turkish seasonal harvesting: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
The partnership between CAOBISCO and the ILO contributes to the elimination of the worst forms of child labour in seasonal agriculture, in line with the Government’s strategy based on a National Time-Bound Policy for the elimination of WFCL by 2015.
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World Organization of the Scout Movement combats Child Labour: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
The partnership connects the 40 million-strong Scout Movement with the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), with a particular focus on its Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and Media programme (SCREAM). SCREAM is an education and social mobilization initiative that empowers children and youth by equipping them with knowledge and skills to participate actively in the campaign against child labour and to work for social change.
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A protective environment for children in Côte d'Ivoire cocoa-growing communities: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
Mars Inc. has teamed up with a range of partners in Côte d’Ivoire to help farmers produce better crops and increase their incomes; to help communities improve their living standards; and to fight child labour by making sure children go to school and are not trapped in child labour. Mars Inc.’s Vision for Change Programme (V4C) – an integral part of its Sustainable Cocoa Initiative (SCI) – can be seen as an innovative and holistic way to achieve and maintain sustainable cocoa production by addressing productivity and community issues together. V4C provides training, improved planting material and fertilizers to farmers. V4C also pursues community development work at the village level to ensure that farmers and their families address some of the social and economic challenges in their communities and directly benefit from the increased productivity that training and good agricultural material brings.
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Alliance against Human Trafficking for Labour Exploitation: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
Facing the growing challenge of human trafficking for labour exploitation in Germany, a multi-stakeholder alliance was established. Through the implementation of state-specific structures (in the Länder) and well-organized networks, the alliance aims to fight human trafficking for labour exploitation and support the affected population – particularly migrant workers. This goal is directly linked to reducing discrimination and exploitation in the labour market.
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Partnership to combat Child Labour in the chocolate and cocoa industry: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
This partnership in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire between the ILO and a number of companies in the chocolate and confectionery industry seeks to eliminate child labour and to ensure workforce continuity in cocoa growing farms by younger generations.
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Supporting the elimination of child labour in Malawi agriculture: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
Following its commitment to ILO values demonstrated by ratification of various ILO Conventions, the Government of Malawi organised its first ever National Conference on Child Labour in Agriculture on 5-6 September 2012. The Conference was organized with technical support from the ILO and support and funding from the Elimination of Child Labour in Tobacco Foundation (ECLT).
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Child Labour Platform (CLP) and the Global Compact: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
The Child Labour Platform (CLP) is a thematic member-based workstream of the UN Global Compact’s Labour Working Group, open to companies committed to contributing to the effective elimination of child labour. It is also open to UN agencies, trade unions, business associations and other relevant stakeholders. The CLP builds on a previous initiative undertaken by the Dutch Government, the UN Global Compact and the Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative aiming to enlist broader business commitment to the roadmap on the elimination of child labour adopted at the 2010 Global Child Labour Conference held in The Hague.
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Technical cooperation activities to Combat Child Labour in Portuguese Speaking Countries in Africa, Brazil and Timor-Leste (CPLP): Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
In the framework of this programme, the Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) agreed with ILO Lisbon to fund technical cooperation activities to combat child labour in CPLP countries in 2010. Its contribution was used to cofinance other IPEC-related activities in those countries. The goal was to ensure greater coherence between national plans and social dialogue mechanisms to combat child labour and share good practices.
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Latin American Network to Combat Child Labour: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
This partnership between Fundación Telefónica and the ILO created a strategic regional alliance to more efficiently combat child labour in Latin America. It strengthens institutions and provides the required tools to disseminate good practices and knowledge. This collaboration between the ILO (through its International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour – IPEC), and Fundación Telefónica’s Proniño Programme is in its third phase.
September 2015
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Full report: Evaluation of mainstreaming of full and productive employment and decent work by the United Nations system organizations
21 September 2015
This evaluation report aims to provide information to the General Assembly/Economic and Social Council and to the legislative and governing bodies of the participating organizations and to the members of the United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) on how the United Nations system organizations have implemented the resolutions aimed at mainstreaming or supporting the decent work agenda with a view to using the lessons learned in the finalization of the post-2015 agenda. The purpose of the evaluation is not to review ILO activities to mainstream decent work, but rather the United Nations system’s response.
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Summary report: Evaluation of mainstreaming of full and productive employment and decent work by the United Nations system organizations
21 September 2015
This report summarizes the background, methodology, findings, conclusions, lessons learned and recommendations of the “Evaluation of mainstreaming of full and productive employment and decent work by the United Nations system organizations” conducted in 2014 by the Joint Inspection Unit.
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Economically Empowering the HIV Vulnerable Population along Transport Corridors in Tanzania
21 September 2015
The ILO, together with the Savings and Credit Cooperative League of Tanzania (SCCULT), multiple private sector partners (such as savings and credit cooperative societies (SACCOs), the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Tanzania, the Employers’ Association, and trade unions addressed this challenge. Since 2011 the ILO has managed an HIV and AIDS vulnerability reduction pro-gramme along Tanzania’s transport corri-dors of Chalinze, Ilula, Mafinga, Makambako, Tunduma and Kyela.
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Voluntary HIV Counselling and Testing (VCT) at Work in Mozambique
21 September 2015
Since 2006 the International Labour Organization (ILO) has been supporting stakeholders in the world of work to better respond to HIV and AIDS in Mozambique. Actions encompass scaling up access to HIV prevention and care through the workplace, increasing the demand for VCT, taking into account the gender-specific needs of women and men, as well as economically empowering groups such as women, young people and people working in the informal economy that are particularly vulnerable to HIV.
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HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment at Work in Indonesia
21 September 2015
As one of the biggest state-owned enterprises in Indonesia, with more than 14,000 workers and 25,000 subcontracted workers throughout Indonesia (of which 40 per cent are mobile male workers), Pertamina has shown a serious and consistent commitment to the prevention of HIV and AIDS at the workplace and to the fight against stigma and discrimination. Pertamina has developed workplace policies to ensure a non-discriminatory working environment for People Living with HIV (PLHIV) and has provided HIV information, counselling and testing for its workers in their sites across the country.
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Preventing HIV in Ethiopia: The Mulu Worksites Project
21 September 2015
The MULU Worksites project is a USAID/PEPFAR-funded project managed by World Learning Ethiopia in partnership with FHI 360, Population Service International (PSI), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The project seeks to implement gender-responsive workplace HIV combination prevention programmes that will strengthen the HIV response in large-scale workplaces employing over 500 persons. The construction, agriculture, leather, cement, mining and manufacturing sectors are a vital entry point for combination prevention, as they employ women and men engaged in high-risk behaviours such as commercial and transactional sex, and multiple concurrent partnerships.
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Reducing HIV Vulnerability in Zambia through economic empowerment
21 September 2015
To create gainful employment as an avenue for economic empowerment and, eventually, to reduce vulnerability to HIV and AIDS, the International Labour Organization (ILO) signed and ratified a Corridor Economic Empowerment Innovation Fund (CEEIF) grant with Cavmont Bank in Zambia, kick-starting a public-private partnership in Zambia. The project is linked to the ILO’s Corridor Economic Empowerment Project (CEEP) to reduce HIV vulnerability along the main transport corridors in Southern Africa.
June 2015
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The ILO and the European Year for Development - Factsheet
08 June 2015
With more than 150 joint projects over the past 10 years, the European Year for Development (2015) offers a perfect opportunity for the ILO and the EU to showcase the human impact these efforts have had on millions of lives – in all corners of the world. Each month of the year is devoted to a different theme.