The Dutch Government has approved the “Employment Creation and Peace Building based on Local Economic Development” (EmpLED) project. Its objective is to contribute to national peace building and poverty reduction in selected districts in Nepal, applying the ILO’s approach to local economic development as an integrating framework for the creation of decent work at the local level. The comprehensive project approach, involving several ILO programmes and departments, will involve local stakeholders in the planning and implementing of local development strategies and ensure that women and men in the targeted communities will be effectively engaged in, and benefit from, improved access to decent and productive local employment and economic development opportunities. The project will have a community-based infrastructure component and will promote the use of local resource-based infrastructure development approaches in two districts in the country.
For more information, please contact ASIST Asia-Pacific: asist-ap@ilo.org