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Building on ILO success stories in countries emerging from armed conflict, such as Cambodia and Mozambique, ILO/CRISIS is refining a model based on integrated and multi-disciplinary interventions that use the “Whole of ILO” approach. These tie immediate action to long-term recovery and development, using the programme’s extensive partnership networks. Through projects in such countries as Croatia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nepal, Sierra Leone, the Solomon Islands, and Somalia, the ILO has forged a unique base of expertise.
A key element of the programme’s response is its dual aim: addressing both critical needs of countries emerging from conflict and the root causes of the fighting itself. In this vein, the ILO works to:
- Reintegrate diverse conflict-affected groups into civil society and help them find opportunities for decent work. This requires a strategy adapted to each vulnerable population, such as refugees/returnees, IDPs, ex-combatants, female heads of households, disabled persons, child soldiers, war-affected youth, and orphans.
- Rehabilitate socio-economic infrastructure, with a priority on labour-intensive reconstruction.
- Encourage social and political negotiation, reconciliation, and dialogue between groups. This draws on the ILO’s long tradition of tripartism and social dialogue.
- Rebuild the community’s social relations and the capacity of ILO constituents (government officials, workers’ groups, and employers’ groups), as well as labour market information flows, which are crucial if decent work opportunities are to increase.
- Promote equity and social justice.
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