Sustaining strengthened national capacities to improve ILS compliance and reporting

The present Action aims at improving the application of the 8 fundamental ILO conventions in the following ILO beneficiaries of the EU preferential GSP+ scheme, Mongolia and Pakistan as well as in members of the EU Central-America Association Agreement, El Salvador and Guatemala. The selected countries will be assisted to take action to apply the 8 fundamental ILO Conventions and better meet their standards-related obligations, in particular on the critical issues raised by the ILO supervisory bodies and reflected under EU monitoring systems. They will also be assisted to fulfil their ILO Constitutional reporting obligations on these conventions. The strategy will be to act on several fronts, as to improve implementation of ILS and compliance with reporting obligations and/or ratified fundamental Conventions. In each country, selected key actors capable to improve implementation of ILS will be given technical assistance, training and will be made aware of critical issues. These actors will be members of the national administration, representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations, judges, parliamentarians and labour inspectors. The intervention to build administrative capacity on implementing the ILS will use a mix of approaches, focussing mainly on institutional development. Activities could include: ¿ Awareness-raising and training on the content of selected fundamental ILS. ¿ Research to generate information on the status of implementation of ILS, including legislative gap analyses, advice on elements that will enable tripartite constituents to take the relevant decisions aiming at full implementation. ¿ Legal advice on the revision or drafting of legislation and regulations in the light of the supervisory bodies’ comments. ¿ Strengthening of data collection and reporting capacity of tripartite constituents including the capacity of using the systemic approach to managing ILS constitutional obligations. ¿ Publication/adaptation of thematic materials on the implementation of the concerned ILS.

Project symbol

PAK/17/51/EUR

Admin unit

CO-Islamabad

Start date

01/04/2018

End date

31/07/2020

Total allocation

212618

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

207940

Development Partners

European Commission, DG Trade

Country/Countries

Pakistan

Outcomes

Outcome 2: International labour standards and authoritative and effective supervision