Expanded support to Agricultural Labour Practices (ALP) programme

This proposal supplements the strategy agreed in 2014 by JTI and the ILO for activities under the Global Training Programme in the period 2015-2018. Under that existing strategy, the ILO will support JTI’s efforts in the context of its Agricultural Labour Practices (ALP) programme, to eliminate child labour in its supply chain, through research and the provision of tailored training on child labour. With this project, ILO proposes to extend its support to the ALP to cover all Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW), in addition to child labour. The rights addressed by this proposal are forced labour, discrimination, and freedom of association and collective bargaining. This is strategically important because FPRW are interdependent and mutually supportive; preventing forced labour in the supply chain, for example, will result in reduced risk of child labour. The proposed project will contribute to outcomes of the ILO’s 2014-2015 Programme and Budget, particularly Outcome 14; The right to freedom of association and collective bargaining is widely known and exercised; Outcome 15, “Forced labour is eliminated”, and Outcome 17, Discrimination in employment and occupation is eliminated. Relevant research that will be conducted under this addendum will be shared ILO constituents. This will help strengthen the evidence base in the target countries, to the benefit of nationally owned policies and programmes to eliminate child labour. In addition, the ILO’s Child Labour Platform is a potential channel for disseminating knowledge generated by the project. The central activities are: Legal and qualitative research on FPRW in target countries including Turkey and Zambia (TBC) Support for integrating the findings of legal and qualitative research into Agricultural Labour Practices (ALP) and other relevant policies and programmes Training of trainers (ToT) materials on FPRW and OSH (linked with Activity 2.1 of ARISE II, global component on child labour) Training delivered to designated JTI trainers on FPRW and OSH Support JTI trainers to train leaf technicians on FPRW and OSH elements of ALP

Project symbol

GLO/15/08/JTI

Admin unit

FPRW

Start date

11/06/2015

End date

31/12/2018

Total allocation

263878

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

251862

Development Partners

Japan Tobacco International SA

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Protection of workers from unacceptable forms of work