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• Making decent work a reality for domestic workers in Africa
  The ILO is organising a Knowledge Sharing Forum in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 28-30 May 2013 to share good practices, practical initiatives and new policies to promote decent work for domestic workers in Africa.
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  • Concept note (pdf file 33Kb)
• Entrepreneurship trainings to women cooperatives and enterprises in kilimanjaro(pdf file 294kb)
  The United Nations Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP), Sustainable Enterprises component, in collaboration with the women entrepreneurship development and Economic Empowerment (ILO/WEDEE) are organizing a training of trainers workshop for women co-operators and entrepreneurs, from 20th to 24th May 2013 in Moshi, Tanzania. The training workshop is aimed at creating optimal conditions for enterprises particularly women enterprises, to strengthen their institutional capacity to better serve the needs of women entrepreneurs and provision of tailor made tools and approaches to reinforce women’s capacity to start and build sustainable businesses.
  
• Request for proposals: ILO corridor economic empowerment project:
  Expression of Interest for the management of ILO Corridor Economic Empowerment (CEEP) Innovation Fund
  ILO invites Micro Finance Institutions working Iringa, Mbeya and Coast/Pwani regions to apply for administration of the CEEP Innovation Fund. The Project on Economic Empowerment and HIV Vulnerability Reduction along Transport Corridors in Southern Africa (Corridor Economic Empowerment Project) seeks to address the needs and vulnerabilities of workers, women and young girls in the informal economy and particularly in the transport corridors who do not have access to coping mechanisms that mitigate the impact of the disease, including lack of social protection and sustained incomes. The CEEIF enables the vulnerable social economic groups who normally lack collateral security to access credit and related services from Microfinance Organisations…
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  • Concept note (pdf file 325Kb)
  • Application form (word file 663Kb)
• Call for proposals to replicate successful entrepreneurship projects
  The Youth-to-Youth (Y2Y) Fund is a competitive grant scheme for youth-led organizations with innovative ideas for youth entrepreneurship development. Through the Youth Employment Network/ILO Youth Entrepreneurship Facility, the Y2Y Fund is inviting applications for its newly launched Y2Y Replication Fund Scheme. The Y2Y Fund will accept applications from officially registered non-governmental, non-partisan and not-for-profit youth-led organizations.
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  • Y2Y Broucher (pdf file 325Kb)
  • Y2Y Information Note (pdf file 663Kb)
• 25 – 28 April 2013: World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2013, Tanzania(pdf file 537kb)
  The World Day for Safety and Health at Work in 2013 focuses on the prevention of occupational diseases. Worldwide, occupational diseases continue to be the leading cause of work-related deaths. According to ILO estimates, out of 2.34 million occupational fatalities every year, only 321,000 are due to accidents. The remaining 2.02 million deaths are caused by various types of work-related diseases, which correspond to a daily average of more than 5,500 deaths…
  
• The ILO/United Nations Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP) 2012 annual report (pdf file 10MB)
  This report is a result of a team effort to ensure that the work we all passionately concentrated on for almost a year is not in vain. The report outlines not only activities that ILO embarked on under the UNDAP Annual Work plan but also explains the result achieved and/or milestones reached.
  
• The ILO/United Nations Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP) Labour Law component UNDAP workshop report (pdf file 753kb)
  The ILO/United Nations Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP) Labour Law component UNDAP conducted a high level training workshop to participants from the ILO constituents in Tanzania on the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining in resolution of labour disputes and promotion of sound industrial relations. The workshop was conducted from 04 to 07 March 2013 in Tanga, Tanzania. The training sought to promote effective social dialogue and collective bargaining among the constituents for decent working conditions through the application of national labour laws and international labour standards
  
• Call for Qualitative Research Proposals on Domestic Workers (pdf file 81kb)
  Lack of country-specific data on domestic workers ( numbers of domestic workers and households that employ them; the socio-demographic profile of workers and employer-households; patterns of employment and contractual arrangements; and terms and conditions of employment) is major impediment to the efforts towards improving the working conditions of domestic workers.

Ongoing

25 - 29 March, 2013: Zanzibar, Tanzania
Training workshop on Labour Market Information and Analysis, Visitors Inn, Zanzibar (pdf file 300Kb)
The ILO through the United Nations Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP) is organizing a five days training workshop from 25th to 29th March, 2013 in Zanzibar, as part of efforts to support capacity building of Ministries, Departments and Authorities (MDAs) in Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar on Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS). The workshop is aimed at enhancing quality and hence the impact of national employment and training policies through the incorporation of useful Labour Market Information (LMI) in the policy planning and formulation. The training is expected to help participants gain knowledge on ways and means of collecting, analyzing, interpreting and disseminating labour market information.
• 04 - 07 March 2013: Tanga, Tanzania
  High Level Tripartite workshop on Social Dialogue and colective Bargaining (pdf file 93Kb)
  The International Labour Organization (ILO) through the United Nations Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP) will conduct a training workshop on Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining for its tripartite partners - Trade Union Congress of Tanzania (TUCTA), Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) and the Government i.e. the Ministry of Labour and Employment, President’s Office -Public Service Management. The objectives of the workshop, among others, are to familiarize the high level tripartite delegates with ILO principles and standards on social dialogue and their importance in promoting industrial relations in Tanzania and impart to them knowledge on organisational rights and the procedure of exercising them.