Africa

From 1989 to 2004, CIS has been responsible for an interregional project focused on the African continent. Funded by the Government of Finland, the project has aimed to build capacity in information management to support OSH training and to strengthen labour inspectorates in 21 countries (Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe). A key output of the project has been the African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety.

Asia

The ILO's Asian-Pacific Regional Programme on Occupational Safety and Health (Asia-OSH) is a technical cooperation project funded by the Government of Finland designed to strengthen occupational safety and health in twenty countries in the Asia-Pacific region: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam. Approved in 1990 and expected to run for 10 years, the project is finally coming to an end in 2004. The name "Asia-OSH" will live on as an appropriate title for the ILO's regional activities in the area of occupational safety and health, and for the network of national institutions that has been created over the life of the project. For information on the regional newsletter and other project outputs, see the Asia-OSH Web pages.

Global

In 2004, CIS joined with the Conditions of Work Branch and the Sectoral Activities programme of the ILO to test the global applicability of a successful worker-driven method for improving working and living conditions that was developed in Southeast Asia by the ILO and Japanese partners. Called WIND, for Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development, the method empowers the members of rural communities to characterize hazards and deficiencies in their homes and workplaces, and to devise appropriate solutions. As developed and tested in Viet Nam, it is described on the pages of Win-Asia.org. The three ILO headquarters units have provided funding and materials from Viet Nam to enable the creation and testing of local adaptations in Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia, Moldova and Senegal.