Projects
The operation of ILO programmes and activities in East Africa is guided by national processes and frameworks, geared towards poverty reduction, undertaken by government, social partners, private sector and donors as well as the Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCP). The DWCP developed with the active participation of the social partners, is a programming tool in support of constituents, national policy and institutions. The DWCPs are already being implemented in Kenya, Tanzania
and Uganda.
The common priority area of the three DWCPs, the EAC Decent Work Programme (DWP) and which is also featuring on the listed project profiles is youth employment which is one of the major challenges
facing sub Saharan African countries. It is expected that the implementation of the DWCPs will contribute to
addressing the challenge. The priority areas of the DWCPs which are feature include:
Youth employment
Elimination of child labour,
Expanding & strengthening of tripartite partners
Expansion of social protection and fight against HIV/AIDS at the work place
Improved industrial relations through the promotion of rights at work and
Strengthening of cooperatives
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Tanzania
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Cooperative Facility for Africa - COOPAfrica
The Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica is a technical cooperation programme of the ILO, under DFID funding. From its office in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), CoopAfrica covers 9 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. ...
Improving Labour Law Compliance in the United Republic of Tanzania.
Building on the achievements of the USDOL-funded Project on Strengthening Labour Relations in East Africa (SLAREA), the project on Improving Labour Law Compliance (ILLC) focuses on strengthening compliance with the revised national labour legislation. ...
United Nations Development Assistance Plan
Tanzania is one of eight countries in the world where the United Nations has been piloting the Delivering as One (DaO) reform. The reform comes in response to the changing aid environment - an attempt to translate the Paris and Accra Principles of Aid Effectiveness into practice. Since January 2007, UN Tanzania has been developing new ways of working together with government to achieve a greater impact through results oriented actions, reducing duplication of efforts, being more efficient, using human and financial resources in effective way, and by harmonizing business practices across UN Agencies in Tanzania..
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Unleashing African Entrepreneurship - Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF)
TThe vision for the “Unleashing African Entrepreneurship - Youth Entrepreneurship Facility”: is to enable African youth to turn their energy and ideas into business opportunities thereby increasing their incomes and creating employment. The promotion of youth entrepreneurship is one of the few feasible options to stimulate the demand side of the labour market and create income generating opportunities. ...
Supporting the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) for the Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour in Tanzania
The IPEC/ABC project aimed at supporting the United Republic of Tanzania through the Ministry of Labour and Employment on implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) for the elimination of worst forms of child labour in Tanzania. The project will contribute to strengthen the institutional and technical capacity of the child labour unit and social partners to implement Objective Number 8, which is aimed at “Ensuring that stakeholders are committed to implement the Plan of Action and the needed resources are allocated by identifying the actor for each set of activities.”
Kenya
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Youth Employment Support-Jobs for the Unemployed and Marginalized young People in Kenya and Zimbabwe
The Youth Employment Support (YES) Jobs for the Unemployed and Marginalized young People (JUMP) is part of the ILO’s response to the Kenya Decent Work Country Programme adopted in 2007 by the Government, Workers and Employers. The objective of the ILO YES-JUMP Project is to contribute to the poverty alleviation efforts in Kenya through creating decent and sustainable jobs for the youth of poor and marginalized communities...
Creating Jobs: Capacity Building For Roads 2000 Programme
The Project involves the provision of Technical Assistance towards Capacity Building for the Implementation of Roads 2000 programme and the enhancement of Training Programmes on Employment Intensive technology. ...
Support to the implementation of the National Action Plan for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) with special focus on agriculture and older children (SNAP – Kenya)
The project aims to support the national government effort to eliminate child labour through support for the implementation of the National Action Plan at the local level. To meet the outlined project objectives, a two prong approach will be implemented. First the implementation of the NAP at district level using an integrated area based approach and the second approach which aims at providing national and local level authorities to further mainstream child labour concerns into other sector polices and programmes. ...
Uganda
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National Action Plan for the Elimination of Child Labour
The project will contribute to the finalization and support for the implementation of a five year National Action Plan (NAP) to combat the WFCL, currently in draft form. This Project of Support (PoS) will facilitate the process of translation of the NCLP into a finalized NAP and will contribute to the implementation of the Plan by strengthening the legal framework and enforcement mechanisms for protecting children from exploitative work and abuse, reinforcing the knowledge base...
- Government of Uganda/United Nations Joint Programme on Population (JPP)
This programme is designed to tap into the opportunities presented by Uganda’s currently youthful population, where 69.3% are under 24 years of age. The JPP aims to put in place the necessary conditions to help prepare the country to benefit from the potential opportunity presented by a large number of young people entering the employable age group.
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