Reducing HIV related employment discrimination in China

This project aims to assist the Chinese government and civil society partners ot strengthen implementation of policies that are in place to protect the employment rights of peopleliving with HIV. The actions include the following: 1. establish a monitoring system on a. workplace discrimination with regular reporting to senior labour and health officials b. strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations to advocate for the elimination of employment discrimination c. establish local linkages between PLHIV groups, legal support services and local trade union officials to resolve cases of employment discrimination. In addition, good case examples will be created based on the rsults of this project and communicated to national health and labour officials for scaling up through the national AIDS programme.

Project symbol

CPR/11/01/UND

Admin unit

CO-Beijing

Start date

10/01/2011

End date

31/12/2011

Total allocation

73605

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

73605

Development Partners

United Nations Development Programme

Country/Countries

China

Outcomes

Discrimination at Work