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The Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) of the ILO works with governments, employers' and workers' organizations, the private sector and community associations in orienting infrastructure investments towards the creation of higher levels of productive employment and towards the improvement of access to basic goods and services for the poor.
The SRO assists member states and constituents in equipping them to design and implement employment promotion programmes in the areas of employment-intensive investment, including in post-crisis situations, paying particular attention to the situation of women.
In adopting or implementing employment-intensive approaches, our interventions focus on:
- Promoting the development and application of employment – friendly policies for public investment in infrastructure at national and district levels. (This includes improved governance through a fair and equitable procurement system to ease participation of local contractors and communities in public sector works).
- Promoting and fostering the development of domestic contracting industry (labour based contractors) and private sector execution of public works other service deliveries (e.g. solid waste management) using locally available resources in an optimum manner, combining job creation in the infrastructure sector with improved and decent working conditions.
- Promoting strategies that strengthen the local capacity for proper planning of scarce resources and implementation of sustainable interventions.
- Promoting capacity building through educational programmes involving university networks and local technical colleges.
The summary of activities carried out by the SRO in each of the respective countries covered by the office can be accessed through Employment Intensive Investment Programme briefs on regional and country projects.
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