SCORE National Tripartite Steering Committee Meeting

The purpose of this meeting is to conduct the Eight SCORE steering committee meeting, which will guide the implementation of SCORE Phase II in Indonesia. All strategic and policy management decisions will be consulted and agreed upon. The meeting also marks the national launch of the second phase of SCORE.

Background

Being more vulnerable to external shocks, most small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia have been finding it difficult to sustain operations due to the global financial crisis, new ASEAN China free trade area agreement and the quality of their jobs is being compromised in the process. The large majority of employment for both women and men is found in SMEs and the key to sustainable economic development that leads to effective poverty reduction lies in competitive and growing SMEs. Current research is showing that innovations in work organization, continuous workplace learning, good labour-management relations, and respect for workers’ rights are important ways of raising productivity while also promoting decent work. The broad problem that this project will address is how to minimize the impact of the financial crisis and tight market competition by fostering responsible and thus sustainable workplace practices – economic, social and environmental – in SMEs in order to improve their productivity and competitiveness in a manner that contributes to sustainable economic development.

The development objective of SCORE is that Indonesia’s SMEs are more sustainable through being cleaner, more productive and competitive and provide more sustainable and decent employment. To achieve this, the project is expected to have achieved the following concrete outcomes by the end of the three year project:
  •  Industry associations can market and coordinate enterprise upgrading services to their local members.
  • Service providers can effectively deliver training and advisory services for workplace upgrading on a commercially sustainable basis.
  • Labour inspectorate services work with mass media to disseminate progressive workplace practices.
  • The project is funded by SECO, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs and NORAD, The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.
  • Upon the successful implementation of the first round of SCORE training in Jakarta area, SCORE Indonesia is doing the expansion of program activities from the Auto Parts sub-sector to other industries and to other area in year two of programme implementation. The area are: Central Java (Semarang), Lampung (Sumatera), South Sulawesi (Makassar), East Kalimantan (Samarinda) and South Sumatra (Lampung)/South East Sulawesi (Kendari)
SCORE aims to help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) through an intensive and hands-on methodology, effective and easily implemented, so that SMEs are more productive, more competitive and cleaner, and can provide more jobs and decent work for their employees.

Purpose

The purpose of this meeting is to conduct the Eight SCORE steering committee meeting, which will guide the implementation of SCORE Phase II in Indonesia. All strategic and policy management decisions will be consulted and agreed upon.