Afghanistan Crisis Response: safety and health of workers, and child labour elimination in micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs)

ILO in Afghanistan will be implementing the Afghanistan Crisis Response: safety and health of workers, and child labour elimination in micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to complement the Road to Decent Jobs for All Afghans (R2DJ4All). The project will invest in building the capacity of two provincial chapters of the employers and business management organisations (EBMOs) to take on a convening role to bring market actors in the selected carpets, poultry, dairy, food processing, handicrafts and TVET based businesses together to respond more effectively to the deteriorating workplace safety conditions resulting from both COVID-19 and the current political crisis. R2DJ4All will use existing bipartite dialogue mechanisms to discuss challenges and identify solutions until a time when ILO will start to engage with the defacto authorities of Afghanistan. The employer and employee/workers organisations will take the lead in training programme on OSH and child labour issues in Dari and Pashto (the two local languages) which will be delivered to the 20 partner SMEs employing 969 workers. R2DJ4All will build on the training on OSH and child labour conducted by the ILO’s DWT Delhi for BCCI personnel in March 2021 and also benefit from previous resources developed by the ILO in these areas such as the Training Manual on Child Labour in Afghanistan. Furthermore, the project will continue to build the capacity of BCCI, AWCCI and NUAME on identified OSH and CL knowledge gaps. Moreover the project will support 20 men and women owned MSMEs involved in carpets, handicrafts, poultry, food processing and mobile phone repairs so that the operations are free from the use of child labour and are recovering from the current political and economic crisis to keep workers in their jobs.

Project symbol

AFG/22/55/JPN

Admin unit

ILO-Kabul

Start date

01/04/2022

End date

31/03/2023

Total allocation

189669

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

189669

Development Partners

Japan, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Country/Countries

Afghanistan

Outcomes

Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises as generators of employment and promoters of innovation and decent work