SDG-Aligned budgeting to transform employment in Mongolia

Through the project, the ILO will provide technical assistance in aligning national legislation and practices with international labour standards and good practices and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of labour inspection. The project will use the comments of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations on Mongolia’s reports on the application of Fundamental Conventions, employment conventions and occupational safety and health conventions to guide action and measure progress in terms of legislative alignment, policy and programme measures, and impacts of government policies and programmes on specific categories of workers, including young workers, workers with family responsibilities, workers with disabilities, and rural and migrant workers who are vulnerable to decent work deficits. The ILO will work closely with the MLSP, General Agency for Specialised Inspection (GASI), NSO, NHRCM, MONEF and CMTU to deepen their respective abilities to implement the ILO Fundamental and Governance Conventions and selected technical conventions in law and practice so as to reduce employment informality, increase decent work, develop evidence to guide interventions and demonstrate progress. In particular, the project will contribute to: -Better aligning of Mongolia’s regulatory framework with international labour standards, which includes: ratifying ILO Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81), the ILO Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129), and effective application of ILO occupational safety and health and employment-related conventions; improving legal environments to increase the efficiency of labour inspection and employment promotion, including changes and amendments to the Law on State Inspection; assisting the Sub-Committee on Application of International Labour Standards in their reviews and discussions of international labour standards and Mongolia’s related obligations; conducting law and practice research to identify implementation gaps and areas for alignment with ILS and formalization of employment; responding to challenges and opportunities arising from COVID-19 precautionary measures and the resulting economic crisis including adapting of work arrangements and back to the workplace; supporting MONEF and CMTU in effective promotion of fundamental principles and rights at work, decent working conditions, formalization of employment and collective bargaining; and supporting professional groups and the Mongolia Decent Work for Youth Network (DWYN) to promote action to realize labour rights and formalization of employment for young workers. -Boosting compliance through strengthened capacity of labour inspection system which includes: providing support for the formulation of annual Strategic Compliance Plan; assessing inspection data collection, analyses and dissemination, including sex- and age-disaggregated data, to develop evidence-based interventions; Recommending improvements for inspection data system to GASI and for the existing data collection of occupational accidents and acute poisoning, occupational safety and health, violence and harassment, gender-based norms and attitudes and COVID-19 return-to-work measures; and delivering training on workplace compliance and labour rights to social insurance, hygiene and labour inspectors at the national, aimag and soum levels and integrating into the Youth Employment Service desks in selected areas.

Project symbol

MNG/20/01/UND

Admin unit

CO-Beijing

Start date

01/12/2020

End date

31/12/2024

Total allocation

564199

Total expenditure

Status

Active

555407

Development Partners

United Nations Development Programme

Country/Countries

Mongolia

Outcomes

Outcome 1: Strong, modernized normative action for social justice
Outcome 2: Strong, representative and influential tripartite constituents and effective social dialogue