Improving safety and health in selected agricultural supply chains in Vietnam

The ILO’s Vision Zero Fund brings together public and private stakeholders to jointly advance towards the vision of achieving zero severe and fatal work-related accidents, injuries and diseases in global supply chains. The Fund is part of the ILO’s Safety+Health for All flagship programme. Since 2018, the Fund has been working to improve workers’ OSH in the coffee supply chain. Projects implemented in Laos, Mexico, Colombia, Honduras and Vietnam directly and indirectly benefited a total of 3,5 million workers. The proposed intervention builds on the strategy and results of the project “Improving safety and health in cooperation with the public and private sector in the coffee supply chain Vietnam” (VNM20/01/DEU), implemented by the ILO Vision Zero Fund (VZF) from 15 October 2020 to 14 June 2023 and supported by the EU and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It aims to strengthen and consolidate the results from VNM20/01/DEU, in particular the following aspects: • Knowledge dissemination on OSH drivers and constrains in coffee supply chains at regional level (target audience: coffee producing countries in Southeast Asia) to promote scaling of good OSH practices; • Expanding knowledge on OSH conditions in agricultural sub-sectors beyond coffee (e.g., rice, tea, spices) to promote replicability and outreach of good OSH practices across sectors and regions; • Strengthening of OSH data collection systems, with focus on the development of systematic approaches and tools to gather data from workplaces in the informal economy in agriculture; • Supporting the development of policies to increase access to occupational accident and disease insurance for workers in the informal economy; • Supporting the efforts of national and international partners to implement sustainable OSH training for coffee farmers and processing facilities; • Operationalising the project’s work on climate change and OSH through the implementation of adaptive pilot measures that are aligned with green practices. • Gender considerations mainstreamed across all outputs. To achieve its results, the project will work in close partnership with relevant government agencies, employers’ organizations, workers’ organizations, multi-stakeholder initiatives, NGOs and national and international companies. The overall project budget is USD 350,000 over a 7.5-month period. It will be funded by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS). The cost breakdown is summarized in the excel sheet (see Annex D).

Project symbol

VNM/23/51/MUL

Admin unit

CO-Hanoi

Start date

15/06/2023

End date

31/01/2024

Total allocation

268107

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

268107

Development Partners

Multi-donor funding to the Vision Zero Fund

Country/Countries

Viet Nam

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Protection at work for all