CSR and Decent Work
The ILO works with its tripartite constituents to support the positive contribution that business, through CSR, can make to promoting decent work around the word. It seeks to reinforce the complementary relationship that can exist between the ratification of ILO conventions by governments, their implementation in legislation and CSR.
CSR-related activities at the ILO
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Better Safety and Health for Suppliers
The ILO, the German Corporation for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and Volkswagen (VW) jointly planned, financed and implemented an interregional Public Private Partnership Project on Occupational Safety and Health and Supply Chain Management in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. The project allocation is partly drawn from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development's "2015 poverty reduction fund". One major goal of the public private partnership initiative is to improve the overall OSH knowledge and to advocate best practices through project activities and the social partner network. The project promotes social protection, better safety and health standards and the strengthening of labour inspection services. Focusing on VW suppliers, it addresses the challenge of how to effectively address the second economy (Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises).
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Gerd Albracht
Bernd Treichel
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Better Factories Cambodia
Better Factories Cambodia was established in 2001 and is a unique programme of the ILO in that it combines monitoring, remediation and training in a virtuous cycle of improvement. It benefits workers, employers and their organizations. It benefits consumers in Western countries and helps reduce poverty in one of the poorest nations of the world. Better Factories Cambodia does this by monitoring and reporting on working conditions in Cambodian garment factories according to national law complying with international standards, by helping factories to improve working conditions and productivity through workplace cooperation on remediation and training, and by working with the Government and international buyers to ensure a rigorous, transparent and continuous cycle of improvement.
Better Factories Cambodiat has been widely credited with:
- Improving working conditions and compliance with international labour standards in the Cambodian garment industry;
- Improving bipartite and tripartite social dialogue in the enterprise, the sector and nationally;
- Contributing to the growth of the Cambodian industry after the expiration of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement [MFA]
Today, garment sector is the Cambodian main export industry and employs about 300,000 mostly female workers. Better Factories Cambodia has an agreed sustainability structure. By 1st January 2009, the project will become an independent Cambodian organization. More information
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Corinne Vargha
Tuomo Poutiainen
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As one of the numerous means of addressing child labour, the ILO has put at work the Child Labour Monitoring (CLM) concept. The overall objective of CLM is to ensure that children and young legally employed workers are safe from exploitation and hazardous work. Apart from prevention and awareness raising building to combat child labour, it is of crucial importance to tackle child labour in the places of work it occurs - factories, fields, fishing vessels etc. A wide range of CLM initiatives have been designed, implemented and tested as part of the ILO’s work against child labour. CLM expanded from manufacturing (Bangladesh and Pakistan) to other economic sectors, such as fishing (Indonesia and the Philippines) and agriculture (Central America and the Dominican Republic), and by now to all areas of IPEC intervention, including the informal and illicit sectors. More information |
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Tuomo Poutiainen |
Multi |
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Sustainable Development through the Global Compact
This project, funded by the Italian government, promotes the Global Compact, the ILO MNE Declaration and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises as essential instruments to advance CSR and ensure the social dimension of globalisation.
Its main objective is to encourage enterprises and the world of work to adopt good labour policies and practices that contribute to sustainable development. Furthermore, the project aims at developing networks - with the participating enterprises, employers’ organizations, trade unions, public and private institutions and other interested parties - to facilitate exchange of experiences in putting the principles into practice. More information |
Contacts
Laura Iucci
Paola Pinoargote
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