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Public-private partnerships

ILO and the private sector: acting together for decent work
Companies and foundations play a pivotal role in the advancement of social and economic development worldwide. They also recognize the advantage of forming partnerships with the United Nations system as a means of linking to development policies and thereby contributing to their community and raising their visibility.

 

The ILO works with individual companies and foundations and with employers and their organizations to tackle important global labour market issues; to support sustainable enterprises and entrepreneurs; to enhance value in supply chains; to promote social protection; and to resolve specific problems in the world of work.

Factsheets on selected partnerships

  1. A Public-Private Partnership to Combat Child Labour in the Chocolate and Cocoa Industry

    The Chocolate and Cocoa Industry Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) to Combat Child Labour in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, between the ILO and a number of companies in the chocolate and confectionery industry, seeks to provide additional and targeted support that complements other ILO activities in these countries aimed at eliminating child labour and ensuring continuity in the cacao growing farms by younger generations.

  2. The Global Compact and Safety and Health: Improving Occupational Safety and Health in the Supply Chain: Public-Private Partnership

    The public-private partnership (PPP) between the International Labour Organization (ILO), Volkswagen (VW) and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), covered Mexico and South Africa, with the overall aim of establishing and implementing national OSH action programmes in the VW supply chain.

  3. The ILO Global Business and Disability Network: Public-Private Partnership

    The ILO has developed a global network of multinational companies, employers’ organizations, and business networks on disability, along with disabled persons’ organizations and other resource groups, to assist companies to include disability in the workplace and in their strategic business plans. The ILO Global Business and Disability Network is a business-led, member-based initiative that fosters the development of a workplace culture that is respectful and inclusive, promoting the hiring, retention and professional development of people with disabilities.

  4. A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Workplace Nutrition in Chile: Public-Private Partnership

    Workplace health promotion programmes, especially those on nutrition, are part of a comprehensive occupational safety and health policy. In 2005, the results of a global study on good practices in providing food at work were published by the ILO, entitled: “Food at Work: Workplace solutions for malnutrition, obesity and chronic diseases”. The study shows that workplace meal programmes that provide convenient access to healthy food can help prevent micronutrient deficiencies and chronic diseases, including obesity and diabetes.

  5. Public-Private Partnerships in HIV prevention and care in India

    Partnerships are at the forefront of all ILO activities in the field of HIV and the world of work. The success of the ILO in reaching thousands of workers at risk of, or otherwise affected by HIV, can be attributed to its strong collaboration with a large number of bilateral and multilateral partners. The ILO’s experience with its corporate group partners in India shows that the average cost of a prevention programme covering a workforce of around 10,000 people would be around USD 9,000. That translates to an average annual cost of USD 0.9 per person, which is much lower than the cost of first-stage drugs of USD 19 per person per month.

  6. The Latin American Network to Combat Child Labour: Public-Private Partnership

    The partnership between Fundación Telefónica and the ILO strives to create a regional alliance to more efficiently combat child labour in Latin America through strengthening of institutions, providing the required tools to disseminate good practices and collaborative knowledge. The joint work between the ILO, through its International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), and Fundación Telefónica’s Proniño Programme has so far gone through three phases.

  7. The PREJAL Project: Promoting Youth Employment in Latin America: Public-Private Partnership

    In 2005 the ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean – assisted by the ILO Office in Madrid – started the regional PREJAL project: Promoting Youth Employment in Latin America, the first public-private partnership (PPP) in Latin America focusing on youth employment. This project aimed to position the youth employment issue at regional and national levels by raising awareness in all layers of the societies of the importance of access to full and productive jobs for young people; promote and support the elaboration of policies and programmes on youth employment through technical assistance; develop innovative experiences of capacity building and inclusion for young women and men, with the ultimate goal of joining enterprises; improve the employability and access to work experience for disadvantaged young people in the finance, energy, security, human resources and sports sectors; conduct a youth employment communication and dissemination campaign, reinforced by a PREJAL virtual platform to exchange knowledge and share the results of the project.

  8. Chinese Supplier Training - Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises: Public-Private Partnership

    China, the first country where the ILO launched SCORE three years ago, is now also the first to host a public-private partnership (PPP) between the ILO and COOP, Switzerland’s second-largest retailer. COOP agreed to fund a SCORE training for a pilot group of its Chinese suppliers to improve productivity, product quality and business practices, while ensuring cleaner production and better performance on international labour standards.

  9. Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations in Morocco: Public-Private Partnership

    The OCP Group (Office Chérifien des Phosphates) is the largest company in the country. In 2010, products of phosphates and its derivatives accounted for nearly a quarter of Moroccan exports by value, approximately 3.5 per cent of GDP. Morocco’s national phosphates company is the world’s leading exporter of phosphates and employs more than 18,000 staff. OCP engaged in a public-private partnership (PPP)with the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO) in Turin to develop tailor-made training activities aimed at strengthening the negotiation skills of their management and workers representatives.

  10. The Taqeem Fund: Results-based monitoring and evaluation for youth employment in the MENA region: Public-PrivatePartnership

    To support youth employment initiatives and improving the effectiveness of their programs, the ILO initiated work on results-based monitoring and evaluation. This new public-private partnership (PPP) supports a select group of small and medium-sized youth employment organizations from the Middle East and North Africa region to develop strategies and provide evidence of their impact, through cost-effective and mass-market technology-based tools. The results are promoted to a broader community of policymakers, practitioners and funders. The Taqeem (wich means “evaluation” in Arabic) Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of fifteen youth employment organizations pioneering new approaches to build capacity in the MENA region to measure and monitor the impact of national programs.

  11. Work4Youth: The MasterCard Foundation’s Partnership with the ILO: Public-Private Partnership

    A public-private partnership (PPP) between the ILO and The MasterCard Foundation has been established to improve data and knowledge on youth employment that will, in turn, help the ILO to better guide constituents to shape effective policies and programmes on youth employment in 28 countries worldwide. The way the “Work4Youth (W4Y)” project does this, is through better knowledge on the challenges young people face in their labour market transitions at national, regional and global levels, as well as through the identification and dissemination of good practices in policies and programmes. The project supports participating countries in bridging their knowledge gaps on the particularities of youth in the labour market, including in areas such as financial inclusion, wage and earnings and other conditions of work, and supports them in the development or review of youth employment policies and programmes that efficiently ease the transition of young women and men to decent work.

  12. The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility’s Youth-to-Youth Fund: Public-Private Partnership

    The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) enables African youth to turn their ideas into business opportunities aimed at increasing their income and the creation of decent work for themselves and others. It is a public-private partnership (PPP) initiative put in place by the Africa Commission, sponsored by BASF, and implemented by the Youth Employment Network (YEN) of the ILO. The Youth-to-Youth Fund aims to assist youth-led organizations in designing and implementing projects for promoting and developing youth entrepreneurship through a transparent and competitive grant scheme. YEN has launched a call for proposals for nonprofit youth-led organizations. Winners receive funding and capacity-building support. They in turn train local youth and help them to set-up micro-enterprises.

Related ILO services

  1. Is your company interested in partnering with the ILO ?

    The ILO seeks partnerships with companies and foundations that share its core values and respect internationally recognized principles with respect to labour, human rights, the environment and corruption. In developing the partnership, guidance and policy advice will be offered by the ILO to bring your company into line with recognized decent work principles.
    Contact the Partnerships and Development Cooperation Department.

  1. ILO Helpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards

    One-stop shop for company managers and workers interested in better aligning business operations with international labour standards. The Helpdesk consists of a website information service and an assistance service responding to specific inquiries, using the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work as a basis. The Helpdesk provides information on a number of labour topics, as well as available resources for business, Q&As, training and numerous links to background reports.

  2. Supply chain improvement through Better Work

    The ILO’s Better Work Programme is a unique partnership between the ILO and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). It unites the expertise of the ILO in labour standards with that of the IFC in private sector development. It helps enterprises bring their practices into line with core ILO labour standards and national labour law. Strong emphasis is placed on improving worker-management cooperation, working conditions and social dialogue.

Active ILO Public-Private Partnerships: Full list

Partner
 Project
 Location Objective
Africa Training and Management Service Foundation / African Management Services Company Implementation of capacity building training and support to Business Development Service (BDS) providers, financial institutions, SMEs and SME associations Zambia Enhanced enmployment and self-employment opportunities for the target groups through access to BDS, finance and skills development
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation "Scale and Efficiency" offered by the Microinsurance Innovation Facility of the ILO (Zurich Foundation) Global Social Finance: Making finance work for social justice
Jacobs Foundation Skills, Competencies and Employability – Building the Evidence Base of What Works in Youth Employment Global Knowledge and tools to promote Decent Work for Youth
The Elimination of Child Labour in Tobacco Foundation (ECLT) Policy Support to an ECLT-sponsored Conference in Malawi on Child Labour in Agriculture Malawi A conducive environment fostered for and steady progress made towards the elimination of the worst forms of child labour
The Master Card Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Work4Youth: Improving youth employment prospects through learn and earn programmes Global Knowledge and tools to promote Decent Work for Youth
Z Zurich Foundation "Scale and Efficiency" offered by the Microinsurance Innovation Facility of the ILO (Zurich Foundation) Global Social Finance: Making finance work for social justice
Fondo Social de la Construcción, Uruguay Evaluación de tareas y diseño del proceso de certificación ocupacional en la industria de la construcción Uruguay Increased capacities of employers' and workers' organizations to participate effectively in the development of social and labour policy
Accor Services and Sodexho Pass International A comprehensive approach to improving workplace nutrition: Survey of Chilean enterprises and tailored recommendations Chile Política nacional de seguridad y salud en el trabajo diseñada y en proceso de implementación, incluyendo instrumentos de gestión
Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund Building Capacity for social compliance of investments in agriculture in Africa Global Social Finance: Making finance work for social justice
BASF Social Foundation Youth Employment Network (YEN) Youth-to-Youth Fund for Entrepreneurship Development Global Knowledge and tools to promote Decent Work for Youth
Business Development Center (BDC) of Jordan Entrepreneurship Education, Know About Business (KAB) in the National Company for Employment and Training Jordan Institutional capacity to promote a conducive business environment for SMEs and foster an entrepreneurship culture in the country enhanced.
Caixa Geral de Depositos Child Labour in Portuguese-speaking countries in the face of the Millennium Development Goals Global Mobilizing innovative partnerships to realize the elimination of the worst forms of child labour by 2016
Global Issues Group, Washington, USA Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the Chocolate and Cocoa Industry and the ILO to Combat Child Labour in Cocoa Growing Communities in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire African Region Action against Child Labour in Africa accelerated for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour
Hey U MultiMedia AG Promotion of the Red Card against Child Labour campaign Global Mobilizing innovative partnerships to realize the elimination of the worst forms of child labour by 2016
Japan Tobacco International SA A Programme To Reduce WFCL in tobacco-growing communities in Brazil Brazil Strengthen the implementation of public policies and social actions to eliminate child labour, with special attention to its worst forms
   " A programme to reduce WFCL in tobacco-growing communities: Global Training Component Brazil Strengthen the implementation of public policies and social actions to eliminate child labour, with special attention to its worst forms
   " A programme to reduce WFCL in tobacco-growing communities: Global Training Component Malawi A conducive environment fostered for and steady progress made towards the elimination of the worst forms of child labour
   " A Programme to Reduce WFCL in Tobacco-Growing Communities in Malawi Malawi A conducive environment fostered for and steady progress made towards the elimination of the worst forms of child labour
   " A Programme to reduce the worst forms of child labour in tobacco-growing communities in Zambia Zambia Support to the implementation of the Child Labour Policy and National Action Plan to combat Child Labour and a Policy and Action Plan to combat trafficking.
Better Work Better Factories Cambodia  Cambodia Working conditions and competitiveness in the garment sector is improved through compliance with international labour standards and national labour law as well as through promotion of decent work
   " Better Work Global Global Better Work : Leveraging Tools
   " Better Work Viet Nam Revenue Viet Nam Improved competiveness through promotion of decent work in key economic sectors
National Entrepreneurship Institute, Saudi Arabia KAB at National Entrepreneurship Institute 'RIYADAH' Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Conducive business environment and institutional capacity for SME development and fostering an entrepreneurship culture implemented.
Switzerland Score Project Supplier Training Global Sustainable enterprises: a global product for crisis recovery, income and employment creation
Welfare Association, Ramallah, Occupied Palestine Territory Nationalization of the Know About Business Palestinian Territory, Occupied Enterpreneurship culture integrated in national curricula
International Port Industry (various donors) Portworker Development Programme (PDP) Global Developing constituents' capacity to achieve decent work in a changing sectoral environment.
Neuchâtel University, Switzerland Governing Labour Standards in the Chinese Electronics Manufacturing Industry: Labour Market Institutions and Governance of Global Value Chains China Skills development increases employability of workers
Social Fund for Development,Yemen Entrepreneurship education - Know About Business Yemen Institutional framework and mechanisms for SME development and fostering an entrepreneurship culture implemented
   " Women's Entrepreneurship Development Programme in Yemen Yemen Institutional framework and mechanisms for SME development and fostering an entrepreneurship culture implemented
University of Maastricht Teaching Master courses (academic year 2011-12) for the SPF and SPD, Public Policy and Human Development Master Programme specializations at Maastricht University Global Strengthening the tripartite governance and performance monitoring of national social security systems

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  1. public private partnerships (7)
  2. youth employment (6)
  3. employment creation (5)
  4. promotion of employment (5)
  5. occupational safety and health (3)
  6. child labour (3)
  7. training (2)
  8. capacity building (2)
  9. employment policy (2)

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