About the Project

This project, based on Public Private Partnerships aims to show the common interest of the public and the private sector in creating stable social, economic and ecologic framework conditions in developing countries. Such initiatives comprise different partners with various strengths that within the partnership contribute to sustainable social and economic development. The International Labour Organization (ILO), the German Corporation for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and Volkswagen (VW) are jointly planning, financing and implementing a Public Private Partnership Project on Occupational Safety and Health and Supply Chain Management. 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 (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises).

The International Labour Organization undertakes the project management with Gerd Albracht as project director and Bernd Treichel in charge of project organisation, in cooperation with the Overall Project Steering Committee and the respective National Steering Committee in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa.

Composed of representatives of the three partners, namely ILO, VW and GTZ, the Overall Steering Committee (OSC) gives broad direction and approves the general work plan, the process optimization approach to Occupational Safety and Health as well as any progress made in this regard and on the composition of the National Steering Committees (NSC).