Enhancing COVID-19 Prevention at Workplaces: Job creation through business re-opening and continuation

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected over 29 million workers in Indonesia as of August 2020, adding to the existing pool of about seven million jobseekers who face significant difficulties in finding a job. While the development of vaccination gives hope, a labour market recovery tends to lag behind an economic recovery. Thus, the number of workers and their families who are affected by the pandemic is likely to rise throughout 2021 and will eventually see a decline mid-2022. It is therefore urgent to save and create jobs. This project promotes job creation by enhancing COVID-19 prevention and improving safety and health for workers, which is an indispensable precondition to business re-opening, continuation and expansion. The ILO has generated the national guidelines on COVID-19 prevention at workplaces with the government and social partners. Based on the national guidelines and international good practices, the project provides technical assistance to 1,500 workplaces to ensure necessary COVID-19 preventive measures are implemented. Through knowledge-sharing and awareness raising activities, the project promotes preventive measures against the new coronavirus in at least 1,000 additional workplaces. It also strengthen the capacity of the government, workers’ organizations and employers’ organizations so that they can effectively cope with the pandemic today and public health crises in future.

Project symbol

IDN/21/01/JPN

Admin unit

CO-Jakarta

Start date

01/04/2021

End date

30/09/2022

Total allocation

1491958

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

1491958

Development Partners

Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Country/Countries

Indonesia

Outcomes

Outcome 1: Strong tripartite constituents and influential and inclusive social dialogue
Outcome 7: Adequate and effective protection at work for all