Nicaragua
A project aiming at incorporating local capacities to promote and use
employment generating technologies in the post-Mitch reconstruction works in
Nicaragua started in the second half of 1999 for a duration of
seven months. A follow-up project in Central America for post-Mitch reconstruction
was subsequently presented to interested donors. This project will aim at generating
employment, alleviating poverty and generating economic development, through the
use of local resources, in particular labour, in post-Mitch programmes and in
public investment in general. The duration of this project is proposed to be two
years. The main outputs of the project would be the following:
- establish strategies for local resource based reconstruction;
- work, in the different countries, towards the creation of units that
promote policies based on the employment intensive approach, in the
ministries responsible for investments;
- introduce employment intensive technologies into reconstruction work
financed by international organisations and donor agencies;
- re-enforce the technical and administrative capacity of the decentralised
public sector;
- organize and build capacity among local contractors and micro enterprises
within the fields of employment intensive technologies and improvement of
construction businesses;
- guide contractors and microenterprises to work in accordance with ILO's
international labour standards.
Further reading
- Modelo
de simulación para el impacto macroeconómico de una estrategia de
actividades basadas en la mano de obra en Nicaragua - PDF 150 Kb
Proyecto
NIC/97/M01/NET, OIT, Managua, 2000
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