EIIP Partners

The EIIP works together with the ILO constituents in public and private sectors as well as with international organisations and development agencies to further the initiatives taken by the programme and to enable an appropriate response to the increasing demand for its services.

Addressing the needs of ILO's Member States and Constituents

The EIIP provides Ministries of Labour with a practical policy tool for collaborating with other ministries, local government authorities, employers and workers for employment creation and social protection.

The EIIP also supports workers in the informal sector in their efforts to organize themselves and negotiate for stronger participation in national development. Associations of informal sector workers and local development committees is a means through which the workers' movements can reach out and extend their membership and social initiatives to workers in the informal sector.

The EIIP works together with employers' organisations, especially from the construction sector and representing micro and small enterprises, in creating an enabling environment for the access of such enterprises to public procurement contracts.

Collaboration with other development agencies

EIIP projects are sponsored by external donors. Technical assistance is funded predominantly by the UNDP and donor agencies, and investments are financed by Governments, donor agencies or development banks. The major donors are Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UNDP and the World Bank.

However, these development partners and agencies do not just act as donors. They are also full partners in developing and disseminating the EIIP approach and fostering the more widespread adoption of labour-based approaches in their own bilateral and multilateral projects.

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