Employment Generation and Livelihoods through Reconciliation in Sri Lanka
The EGLR project through its’ innovative work on creating and fostering partnerships at different levels will play a pioneering role in harnessing a positive impact in terms of economic growth, jobs, incomes and cross-community dialogue.
The Government of Norway and the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Sri Lanka on 22nd November entered in to a partnership agreement for nearly US 1.8 M to provide sustained livelihood opportunities to the conflict affected communities in the Northern province. The new funding will support the scaling up of the current activities and expanding to other items in the Fruit & Vegetable and Fishery sectors
The EGLR project through its’ innovative work on creating and fostering partnerships at different levels will play a pioneering role in harnessing a positive impact in terms of economic growth, jobs, incomes and cross-community dialogue. The focus of the project has and continues to be on contributing to a more inclusive and equitable post conflict recovery and economic development. It is one of ILO’s responses to create decent work opportunities to support inclusive growth and reconciliation in post conflict districts.
The new funds from the Norwegian Government will provide an opportunity to expand the scale up of the sectors and to diversify in terms of the processes as well as variety of crops being produced, processed and marketed. Furthermore, to build mutually beneficial partnerships between farmers groups, fishermen and buyers and exporters. The project’s continued presence in the fishery sector will further support the integration of vulnerable and excluded communities through potential demand oriented market based aquaculture initiatives. As with the fruits and vegetables sector, the project will initiate the process of Fair Trade certification for the Fisheries Sector to enhance potential market value of their produce and reinforce sustainability. The certification processes will ultimately help fishery communities and the farmers groups in the North to gain premium prices for their export products.
This intervention will contribute to the current interventions and expand the geographical and product coverage so as to broadens its’ impact in terms of poverty reduction and economic empowerment, right to decent work and intercommunity dialogue toward sustained reconciliation and social and economic development of the country.
Duration: from 1st of January 2016 to September 2018
Target: conflict affected vulnerable communities in the northern region of Sri Lanka
Project objectives: to create decent work and income generation for the vulnerable communities
Main activities:
The EGLR project through its’ innovative work on creating and fostering partnerships at different levels will play a pioneering role in harnessing a positive impact in terms of economic growth, jobs, incomes and cross-community dialogue. The focus of the project has and continues to be on contributing to a more inclusive and equitable post conflict recovery and economic development. It is one of ILO’s responses to create decent work opportunities to support inclusive growth and reconciliation in post conflict districts.
The new funds from the Norwegian Government will provide an opportunity to expand the scale up of the sectors and to diversify in terms of the processes as well as variety of crops being produced, processed and marketed. Furthermore, to build mutually beneficial partnerships between farmers groups, fishermen and buyers and exporters. The project’s continued presence in the fishery sector will further support the integration of vulnerable and excluded communities through potential demand oriented market based aquaculture initiatives. As with the fruits and vegetables sector, the project will initiate the process of Fair Trade certification for the Fisheries Sector to enhance potential market value of their produce and reinforce sustainability. The certification processes will ultimately help fishery communities and the farmers groups in the North to gain premium prices for their export products.
This intervention will contribute to the current interventions and expand the geographical and product coverage so as to broadens its’ impact in terms of poverty reduction and economic empowerment, right to decent work and intercommunity dialogue toward sustained reconciliation and social and economic development of the country.
Duration: from 1st of January 2016 to September 2018
Target: conflict affected vulnerable communities in the northern region of Sri Lanka
Project objectives: to create decent work and income generation for the vulnerable communities
Main activities:
- Develop partnership between the producers in the North together with and the private sector in the south
- Link producers with the supply and value chains
- Establish value added emperies
- Introduce standards and best practices to improve the access to markets
- Promote and develop inclusion of gender into development activities