National Capacity Building and Planning Workshop
This workshop for central trade unions and membership based organisations was organised to discuss issues and challenges related to informal economy workers in lower tiers of global supply chains, including home workers and other home based workers.
This workshop was organized as part of the ILO/Japan project ‘Towards fair and sustainable global supply chains: Promoting decent work for invisible workers in South Asia’.
The workshop brought together national trade unions and membership based/community based organizations for two days. Focus was on:
a) developing a common understanding, conceptual clarity and coherence in advocacy initiatives among stakeholders with regard to workers in the lower tiers of the global supply chains, including home workers, casual and informal workers, and other home based workers, especially women workers;
b) building stakeholders’ capacity on international labour standards (core/fundamental conventions, convention on home workers C177, labour rights and entitlements, wages, social protection, OSH under the labour law and gaps and challenges in law and implementation etc; and
c) concertizing possible actions in the form of a joint strategic action plan for home workers, home based workers and other workers in informal economy, who are part of global supply chains.
Almost 40 participants attended the workshop. Resource persons included Amarjeet Kaur, General Secretary, AITUC; Prof. Ravi Srivastava, School of Social Sciences, JNU; Indrani Mazumdar, Director, Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS); C K Saji Narayanan, President, BMS; and Janhavi Dave, International Coordinator, HomeNet South Asia.
Resource Persons from the ILO included Dagmar Walter, Director, ILO DWT/CO-New Delhi, Bharti Birla, Project Manager (CTA)- Sustainable Global Supply Chains in South Asia, Syed Sultan Uddin Ahmmed, Specialist for Workers Activities, Igor Bosc, CTA, Work in Freedom Programme, Xavier Estupiñan, Wages Specialist, and Mr. Sho Sudo, CTA, ILO/Japan Multi-bi Programme, ROAP-Bangkok.
The workshop culminated with the joint agenda and action plan as well as recommendation for the formation of a joint platform/national working group of trade unions and membership based organizations. It was decided that the mandate of the group will include advocacy and action, knowledge sharing, capacity building and identify future technical capacity building needs and enable the stakeholders to work towards a collective goal of reducing decent work deficits for informal economy workers, especially women home workers engaged in global supply chains.
The workshop brought together national trade unions and membership based/community based organizations for two days. Focus was on:
a) developing a common understanding, conceptual clarity and coherence in advocacy initiatives among stakeholders with regard to workers in the lower tiers of the global supply chains, including home workers, casual and informal workers, and other home based workers, especially women workers;
b) building stakeholders’ capacity on international labour standards (core/fundamental conventions, convention on home workers C177, labour rights and entitlements, wages, social protection, OSH under the labour law and gaps and challenges in law and implementation etc; and
c) concertizing possible actions in the form of a joint strategic action plan for home workers, home based workers and other workers in informal economy, who are part of global supply chains.
Almost 40 participants attended the workshop. Resource persons included Amarjeet Kaur, General Secretary, AITUC; Prof. Ravi Srivastava, School of Social Sciences, JNU; Indrani Mazumdar, Director, Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS); C K Saji Narayanan, President, BMS; and Janhavi Dave, International Coordinator, HomeNet South Asia.
Resource Persons from the ILO included Dagmar Walter, Director, ILO DWT/CO-New Delhi, Bharti Birla, Project Manager (CTA)- Sustainable Global Supply Chains in South Asia, Syed Sultan Uddin Ahmmed, Specialist for Workers Activities, Igor Bosc, CTA, Work in Freedom Programme, Xavier Estupiñan, Wages Specialist, and Mr. Sho Sudo, CTA, ILO/Japan Multi-bi Programme, ROAP-Bangkok.
The workshop culminated with the joint agenda and action plan as well as recommendation for the formation of a joint platform/national working group of trade unions and membership based organizations. It was decided that the mandate of the group will include advocacy and action, knowledge sharing, capacity building and identify future technical capacity building needs and enable the stakeholders to work towards a collective goal of reducing decent work deficits for informal economy workers, especially women home workers engaged in global supply chains.