Workplaces and industries for sustainable and inclusive growth through sharing good practices of GBA, OSH and IR projects

The project will contribute to policy dialogue and support systems that can help industries and workplaces to drive sustainable and inclusive growth in the Asian region. It will have a specific component in Indonesia and prepare to replicate the experience in other countries. It will combine the enhancement of platforms and capacities for tripartite policy. dialogue and the development of shared goals, with capacity building in practical, bottom-up approaches for industry upgrading and enterprise improvement that deliver concrete benefits to workers and employers. The project is based on and expand the work carried out under the previous phases of the ILO/Japan Greener Business Asia (GBA) Project, and carry forward key components of the ASEAN-ILO/Japan Project on Industrial Relations (AIJPIR), drawing upon the tools and experience of the ILO/Japan on Occupational Safety and Health in Hazardous Work in Southeast Asia (OSH) Project. The project will contribute to advancing gender equality and to addressing disability through the dissemination of a module on equality and diversity at the workplace (developed under earlier phases of GBA) that will be part of the industry cluster intervention. Research and assessments carried out by the project will collect sex-disaggregated data. The participation of women in training and capacity building activities will be actively encouraged. Further, in working with the target groups, the project will consistently mainstream gender perspective in its various interventions and approaches, recognizing strategic roles and needs of both women and men and will incorporate means to be able to monitor these.

Project symbol

RAS/14/05/JPN

Admin unit

CO-Jakarta
RO-Asia and the Pacific

Start date

01/04/2015

End date

31/12/2018

Total allocation

1618498

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

1618498

Development Partners

Japan, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Country/Countries

Asia and the Pacific - regional
Bangladesh

Outcomes

Promoting sustainable enterprises
Protection of workers from unacceptable forms of work