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Areas of Work
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- - Employment policy reviews
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- Upon requests from the constituents, the Employment Policy and Advisory Services Unit provides assistance in undertaking national employment policy reviews. The reviews aim to support countries to adjust, further develop and implement existing employment policies. The activities include advisory missions, discussions of the findings through national stakeholders' seminars and workshops and possible follow-up support on policy implementations.
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- Employment strategies and policies
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- Following requests by member states, the Employment Policy and Advisory Services Unit provides assistance in formulating and implementing national employment strategies or policies and/or youth employment action plans. Activities include: advisory missions; providing support to preparation of employment strategy; tripartite conferences; seminars, workshops and setting up national tripartite working groups to discuss the proposals and recommendations; and design technical cooperation projects with other ILO departments to implement policies and programmes in support of the employment strategy.
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- Labour market policies
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- The Employment Policy and Advisory Service Unit's work on labour market policies include in-depth analysis of the labour market and labour market institutions, exploring the link between the labour market and the overall economic performance and evaluating/providing guidance on labour market policies' evaluation in terms of its effectiveness and impact.
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- Contribution to PRSP process
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- At the request of a member state, of a partner agency or of another ILO Department, the Employment Policy and Advisory Services Unit provides inputs for the preparation of the PRSP so as to include an employment component in the fight against poverty. More generally, the Employment Policy and Advisory Services Unit contributes through advisory missions, tripartite workshops, training seminars and technical cooperation projects to promote employment policies to fight poverty.
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Employment Intensive Investment Programme
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- Over half of public investments in most developing countries is in infrastructure. Such infrastructure investments have the potential to alleviate the poverty of many through the jobs they create. Unfortunately, this potential is often not realized, as many projects are equipment-intensive and frequently rely on foreign contractors. Studies have shown that making greater use of local labour and resources is usually 20% less costly and save as much as 50% of foreign currency requirements, in addition to creating three to five times more jobs. And there is a mulitplier effect of indirect benefits of 1.6 to 2.0 more jobs.
The ILO works with governments, employers' and workers' organizations, the private sector and community associations in maximizing the economic benefits of infrastructure development projects. At the national level, ILO supports the development of a supportive policy framework which would ensure greater access to public procurement contracts for micro and small enterprises and raise awareness of the employment impact of public investments in infrastructure. It assists in capacity building in public institutions as well as the development of private industry capable of mobilising and effectively utilising local human and material resources in the development and maintenance of infrastructure. The ILO also provides assistance to workers’ and employmers’ organisations, and communities in improving their capacity to work with public institutions in the planning, design and implementation of infrastructure development projects.
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Gender and Employment Policies
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- Gender and Employment Policies work includes developing pro-active policies for promoting gender equality in employment, assisting in mainstreaming gender into employment promotion within the Employment Sector and employment policy advice. The staff also provides technical assistance to projects in the field.
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