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Key Programme Areas
(i) Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) : Overarching Programme - The current framework for ILO support is through Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) within which national priorities and decent work objectives are articulated in close consultation and collaboration with the Government, workers’ and employers’ organizations. The principal means of action are technical advisory services delivered through regular ILO programmes with external funding from development partners. DWCPs are developed within a five year Strategic Policy Framework, the current SPF being 2006- 2009.
Key areas for ILO support in the current DWCPs include:
• Labour market governance (including ratification and compliance with international labour standards,
industrial & employment relations, and labour market information)
• Employment (in particular for young men and women, enterprise and entrepreneurship development and the elimination of child labour from workplace)
• Protection at work (through improved social security and conditions of work, and HIV & AIDS work place policy support)
• Mechanisms for the promotion and strengthening of effective dialogue and tripartism
Youth Employment Programme: RAS/06/53/NET-Subregional
Programme on Education, Employability and Decent Work
for Youth in Pacific Island Countries –It is aimed at improving the
employability of young men and women in Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu by enhancing understanding of the knowledge of how to address the challenges young women and men face in securing decent wage and self-employment, building capacity of governments, employers’and worker’s organizations and youth organizations to develop national and local policies and programmes to achieve Decent Work for youth, and increasing access of support services for wage and self-employment through new tools
and methodologies adapted to national circumstances.
Tackling Child Labour (TACKLE)
The ‘Tackling Child Labour through Education’ (TACKLE) programme, in 11 countries across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, Fiji and PNG, is aimed at reducing poverty by providing equitable access to basic education and skills development to children involved in child labour or at risk of being involved in child labour. TACKLE works to strengthen the capacity of national and local authorities, social partners and civil society to formulate, implement and enforce policies, strategies and actions to fight child labour. Specifically on; improving country level child labour and education legal framework;
strengthening institutional capacity leading to improved ability to formulate and implement child labour strategies;targeting actions to combat child labour designed and implemented to develop effective demonstration models; enhancing knowledge base and networks on child labour and education through improved advocacy and dissemination of good practices
Men as Partners in Reproductive Health through the Workforce Project (MAPRH)
This is a collaborative program funded by UNFPA, executed by ILO through its constituents, the employers’ and workers’ organisations targeting male workers in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The project has, for the first time, promoted partnership building between the employers’ federation and trade unions in jointly promoting workers’ well being. This is initiated through capacity building process to enhance workers quality of family life and to improve work performance aligning it to ILO’s DWCP on social protection. The strategic interventions include a specific training program on reproductive health, gender and communication skill to enable male workers to make informed decisions
and responsible choices in these areas that often affect the quality of their family life and work performance.
HIV and AIDS in the World of Work:
With collaboration and funding from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the HIV&AIDS project endeavours to raise
awareness on HIV&AIDS at the workplace for working men and women
and culminating into drafting workplace policies for their own workplaces.
The Project works at two levels: national tripartite level to advocate,
develop and implement a National Code of Practice and at workplace
level promoting workplace policies for each organisation in the hope to
prevent HIV&AIDS, eliminate stigma and discrimination, mitigate the
impact of HIV&AIDS and support and care for workers infected and
affected by HIV&AIDS. Principles such as recognising HIV&AIDS as
a workplace issue, non-discrimination, gender equality, healthy work
environment, social dialogue, no screening, confidentiality, continuation
of employment relationship, prevention and care & support are promoted
in workplace policies as well as National Codes of Practice.
ILO Contribution to UNDAF and MDG DWCPs and the various programmes of ILO in the Pacific supports:
UNDAF particularly Outcome 1 - Equitable Economic Growth and
Poverty Reduction thru the youth employment programme and child
labour project; Outcome 2 - Good Governance and Human Rights thru
labour law reforms, legislation and ILO conventions, social dialogue,
tripartism and labour market information; Outcome 3: Equitable Social
Protection Services thru social security/National Provident Fund,
occupational safety and health (OSH), HIV in the workplace and
maritime; and Outcome 4 – Sustainable Environmental Management
thru green jobs.
MDGs –ILO Decent Work Agenda contributes to all 8 MDGs in
the fight against poverty, especially in the Pacific region (Goal 1 in
increasing incomes and productivity, Goal 2 in the elimination of child
labour, Goal 3 on gender equality, Goals 4,5 & 6 on social protection
contributing directly to the health-related goals; Goal 7 on sustainable
development thru green jobs and Goal 8- cooperation for development
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