Outcome 9_GLOBAL (Employers' Organizations) Thematic funding for 2014-15 (Norway-ILO Partnership Programme 2012-15)

The programme aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of employers’ organizations in policy development and dialogue at national, regional and interregional levels and to assist employers’ organisations in the development of new and improved services to increase membership recruitment and retention. Mainstreaming gender in EO policy work and promoting women in business and management and women entrepreneurs are also key elements of the programme strategy. The regional component focuses on critical labour and social challenges in the ASEAN region from a policy angle by engaging employers’ organizations as main actors to influence the environment in which their enterprise members operate nationally and regionally. This effort is combined with implementation and development of related tools and services to better engage members of employers’ organizations for effective and impactful change. The regional component moreover contribute to addressing the prevalence of a large informal economy in this region by looking into critical issues such as skills, labour policies and non-discrimination at work at national level as well as regional level. Employers’ organizations will in particular need to be in a stronger position to advise their members on the challenges and opportunities of the ASEAN Economic Community 2015.

Project symbol

GLO/14/59/NOR

Admin unit

ACT/EMP

Start date

01/09/2014

End date

31/12/2015

Total allocation

715305

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

698742

Development Partners

Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Country/Countries

Georgia
Montenegro
Indonesia
Republic of Moldova
Zambia
Cambodia
Bangladesh
Global
Fiji
Malawi
Nepal
Armenia
India

Outcomes

Strong and representative employers' and workers' organizations