Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) – Colombia Phase II 2013-2017

The Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) Programme is a specific ILO response to the challenges of SMEs. SCORE is a practical training and workplace improvement programme to increase the productivity of SMEs while promoting better working conditions. The programme demonstrates best international practice in manufacturing and service sectors and helps SMEs to participate in global supply chains. SCORE is a modular training programme that focuses on developing cooperative relations in the workplace. Workers and managers participate together in a series of two-day classroom training sessions on workplace cooperation, quality management, human resource management, and occupational health and safety. Local experts follow up on-site to help enterprises implement what has been learned. SCORE also includes a training module on cleaner production, prepared in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The SCORE training programme is built on the assumption that productivity can be upgraded through better people management and the application of workplace practices that are in compliance with national law and guided by the principles of the core international labour standards. What is more, this approach can achieve productivity improvements more cheaply and faster than capital intensive technology upgrading, which is, in many cases, too costly and inflexible for SMEs. The SCORE programme is a direct response to the 2007 International Labour Conference General Discussion on Sustainable Enterprises . There, representatives from Governments, Unions and Employers Organizations concluded that: Sustainable enterprises need to innovate, adopt environmentally friendly technologies, develop skills and human resources, and enhance productivity to remain competitive in national and international markets. They also need to apply workplace practices based on full respect for fundamental rights at work and international labour standards, and foster good labour-management relations as important means of raising productivity and creating decent work.

Project symbol

COL/13/50/MUL

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Lima

Start date

04/12/2013

End date

30/09/2017

Total allocation

1208041

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

1208041

Development Partners

Multi donor Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) & Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)

Country/Countries

Colombia

Outcomes

Promoting sustainable enterprises