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Securing Decent Work in North Africa
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"The primary goal of the ILO today is to promote opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work, in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity."
Juan Somavia, ILO Director-General
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Decent Work sums up the aspirations of people worldwide. It involves creating freely chosen, productive jobs for women and men; jobs that are in safe, healthy, participatory work environments and that afford them decent and equitable remuneration, social protection and, whenever possible, professional development.
Promoting Decent Work is the ILO's main goal worldwide. It is essential to achieving fair globalization and poverty reduction. Decent Work was recognized at the 2005 UN World Summit as instrumental to fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The Decent Work Agenda consists of four pillars, with gender equality and poverty reduction as cross-cutting objectives:
- International labour standards and rights at work;
- Employment creation and enterprise development;
- Social protection;
- Social dialogue.
The Sub-Regional Office for North Africa in Cairo promotes the Decent Work Agenda in seven North African countries through the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) framework, that organizes ILO interventions in each individual country into a coherent, result-oriented and assessable programme.
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Ongoing and Upcoming
- August-December 2007, Cairo, Egypt
Occupational Safety and Health Campaign: Salametk Bel Donia
A nation-wide multimedia advocacy campaign to promote awareness of safety and health in the Egyptian cement industry will be launched in an official ceremony in September 2007.
- 12-13 November 2007, Cairo, Egypt
ILO Training Workshop on Occupational Safety and Health in the Tourism Sector
A two-day training workshop was held in Cairo on 12-13 November, for workers in the tourism industry of Egypt.
- 5 September 2007, Cairo, Egypt
Introduction of the "Toolkit for Mainstreaming Employment and Decent Work" to the UN Country Team in Egypt
This Toolkit is being introduced for the first time at the national level. It was presented to the UN Country Team in Egypt, and will be adapted for use in the Egyptian context. The Toolkit provides guidance on how to mainstream employment and decent work in the policies, programmes and activities of UN agencies and, later, those of the national stakeholders.
- 3-4 September 2007, Cairo, Egypt
Decent Work Country Programme Training Workshop
The Decent Work Agenda and the DWCP framework were introduced to ILO tripartite constituents in Egypt and initial steps were taken to identify country priorities. Consultations to prepare the DWCP for Egypt will continue and a final document will be ready by December 2007.
- 25-31 August 2007, Cairo, Egypt
Presentation of ILO Tools and Programmes in Job Creation through Entrepreneurship Development
A one-day presentation of ILO entrepreneurship support tools will be held in Khartoum and in Juba, Sudan. This event will include information about the ILO approach to MSME development, youth entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship, local economic development and microfinancing, among many other topics.
- 2-4 August 2007
National Seminar Held to Raise Awareness of International Labour Standards in Eritrea
- 12 June 2007
ILO Signs Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) on Technical Cooperation with the Government of South Sudan
The technical cooperation package attached to the MoA will address post-war recovery and reconstruction in South Sudan, effectively consolidating the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between North and South Sudan. It will make possible ILO technical assistance and capacity building to the Ministry of Labour, Public Services and Human Resource Development of the Government of South Sudan in the areas of vocational training, employment services, labour administration and labour law.
- 10-12 July 2007, Cairo, Egypt
Roundtable on Pay Equity
A roundtable discussion on pay equity and ILO Convention 100 was jointly held by SRO-Cairo and the Egyptian Ministry of Manpower and Migration (MOMM), attended by representatives of other relevant ministries, employers’ and workers’ organizations.
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