The main activities include technical and vocational education and training reform project which contributes to skills and employability, the urban informal economy programme on combating child labour, national policy on occupational safety and health, gender equality and discrimination at work, and capacity building of tripartite constituents through training/ fellowship programmes. Most importantly, the ILO is promoting green jobs initiative in Bangladesh, and protection of overseas workers through safe migration.
The Bangladesh Decent Work Country Programme is being implemented, for the period 2006-2009, in close co-operation with ILO’s tripartite constituents: the Government, Bangladesh Employers’ Federation and the National Coordination Committee for Workers’ Education. The four key outcomes are:
- Improving skills training and entrepreneurship for enhanced employability and livelihoods;
- Improving coverage of social protection and rights for workers in selected sectors;
- Combating child labour with priority focus on the worst forms of child labour;
- Strengthening social dialogue and tripartism.