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1 Pathways to Achieving Decent Work for Young People A108180 Trade Union Policies for Decent Work Generation for Young Workers ITCILO, Turin 16 to 27 February 2015 Anglophone and Lusophone Africa Pathways to Achieving Decent Work for Young People

2 Why Focus on Youth?  The lack of decent work makes young people and the societies they live in extremely vulnerable  In Africa, the challenge is more fundamental – not only creating jobs, but finding decent jobs for young people who are often underemployed  A vicious cycle of poverty, inadequate education and training, and poor jobs is on the rise  This “poverty trail,” from youth to adulthood, is fraught with danger for today’s societies.

3 What is Decent Work Agenda?

4 Strategic Objectives of the DWA

5 What is Decent Work?

6 Continues… Work that is productive, fair income, gives fair income, security in the workplace social protection for the family, security in the workplace and social protection for the family, equal opportunities and treatment, better prospects for personal development and social integration, freedom to organise participate in better prospects for personal development and social integration, freedom to organise and participate in decision making Concept of Decent Work encompasses both individual and collective dimensions (C 87 & 98)

7 DWCP - Definition  The translation of DWA into practical action at the national level  The main vehicle for delivery of ILO support to countries  Distinct ILO contribution to UN country programs  The expression of ILO Program & Budget in a country (time- bound and resourced program)  Promotes Decent Work as a key component of national development strategies  Organises ILO knowledge, instruments, advocacy & cooperation at the service of tripartite constituents in a result-based framework to advance DWA within the fields of ILO comparative advantage

8 DWCP …  Vary from country to country;  Starts with problem analysis;  Identifies a limited number of priorities;  In-line with national development plans, Common Country Assessment (CCA), UN development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), ILO’s Strategic Policy Framework (SPF) and Program and Budget (P&B);  Sets intended Country Program Outcomes (CPOs);  Defines an implementation plan with outputs, activities and resources  Defines an internal management tool  Monitors and evaluates performance

9 DWCP – The Process  Problem analysis and lessons learned in the country – the Country Context  Identifies number of country program priorities (in line with the views and priorities of constituents and the ILO Strategic Policy Framework (SPF) and Program and Budget (P&B)  Limited number of intended Country Programs Outcomes, indicators, targets and strategies  Implementation Plan with outputs, activities and resources

10 Preparing a DWCP: A Six-step Cycle Regional support group / quality assurance framework Constituents’ involvement Country Context CP Priorities Linked to P&B CP Outcomes Planning Implementation Reporting and evaluation

11 A Six-step Cycle Step 1Defining the country context Step 2Establishing the country program priorities Step 3Defining intended outcomes, indicators, targets and strategies Step 4DWCP implementation planning Step 5Implementation, monitoring and reporting Step 6 Review and evaluation

12 UN System-wide policy coherence System-wide commitment  Second UN Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008- 2017): “Full Employment and Decent Work for All”  ECOSOC resolution 2008/18 “Promoting full employment and decent work for all” MDG target 1.B (2005): “Achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all including women and young people”. System-wide initiatives  Plan of Action (2 nd Poverty Decade)  2009 CEB Crisis Initiatives: Global Jobs Pact and Social Protection Floor Initiatives

13 ILO Support Strategy for Youth Employment Pillars Outcomes 1.Youth employment is mainstreamed into national development frameworks and employment policies 2.National action plans on youth employment are developed and implemented 3.National programmes for decent work for youth implemented by governments in cooperation with social partners 4.Information dissemination, awareness raising, training or outreach strategy on youth KNOWLEGDE Research and evaluation carried out to assess impact of youth employment policies and programs ADVOCACY Youth employment partnerships established at global, regional and national levels TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Interventions to improve employment and income of youth implemented and evaluated OBJECTIVE: Young men and women to have access to decent employment and income opportunities

14 Continues…

15 DW + Job-Rich Growth Strategies ILS and Rights at Work RATIFICATION  Promote the RATIFICATION of International Labour Standards Social Floor  Build and make a case for rights, in particular the ILO’s core labour standards + governance conventions as a Social Floor COSTRIGIDITY  Ensure respect for rights as an enabling factor in development, not a ‘COST’ to be borne or a ‘RIGIDITY’ to be avoided  Consistently challenge the notion of trade-off between labour rights + growth RIGHT LENS  Ensure that MNEs + multilateral institutions look at labour issues with a RIGHT LENS LABOURSOCIAL RIGHTS SOCIAL MODEL AGENDA  Increase the importance of LABOUR and SOCIAL RIGHTS as oppose to economic freedoms through a SOCIAL MODEL AGENDA

16 DW + Job-Rich Growth Strategies  Ensure respect for FPRW by eliminating flagrantly unjust labour practices + changing, in the spirit of SJD the conditions that produce + perpetuate such practices including:  Lack of fundamental rights at work  Poor skills and education  Low productivity  Ill health, due also to OSH hazards or excessively long hours of work  Unduly low wages, and late, underpayment of non-payment of wages  Denial of employment relationship  Note: Conditions that deny fundamental principles + rights at work, put at risk the lives, health, freedom, human dignity and security of especially young workers and luck them in conditions of poverty

17 DW + Job-Rich Growth Strategies Employment Generation:  Implement sound employment and active labour market policies (ALMP) more forcefully to address inactivity and skills mismatch  Invest in labour intensive sectors and promote the development of SMEs  Expand and diversify economic activities through value-addition, creating forward and backward linkages between enclave sectors and other sectors and promoting labour intensive export-oriented growth initiatives  Promote local content policy and coordinate investment in job creation programs to ensure coherence  Tailor fiscal policy in support of quality employment and address fiscal imbalances through growth inducing measures over the medium-term by broadening the tax base  Invest in education, training, skills, innovation and active labour market programs with a specific focus on unemployed youth

18 DW + Job-Rich Growth Strategies GREEN  Invest in infrastructure by prioritising projects that will strengthen jobs and growth, including > investment and job  Support quality public service and innovation so as to create employment, support youth participation in the labour market and reduce precarious work  Advocate for new education and training policies and tools through inclusive reforms that can concretely contribute to improving the employability and competencies of young people through relevant skills that match with the needs of the labour market

19 Policy measures should be balanced and adapted to country-specific needs Policies for youth employment Comprehensive packages of labour market measures targeting specific groups of young people Multi-pronged and balanced strategies for growth and job creation Bipartite and tripartite cooperation Multiple services for entrepreneurship, social enterprises and cooperatives development Platforms for exchanging knowledge and lessons of what works Employment services Apprenticeships, skills training and other work-training programmes Targeted youth employment action through tripartite consensus and time-bound action plans Policiy measures

20 DW + Job-Rich Growth Strategies Social Protection  Adopt ILO’s two-dimensional strategy for the extension of social security:  Vertical dimension: progressively ensuring higher levels of protection, guided by Convention No.102  Horizontal dimension: guaranteeing access to essential healthcare and minimum income security for all, guided by Recommendation No. 202  NOTEBasic social security guarantees should be established by law  NOTE: Basic social security guarantees should be established by law  Halt the growth of precarious and irregular work by extending social protection across the labour force, paying particular attention to the youth and gender dimension  Use a variety of methods to mobilize necessary resources to ensure financial, fiscal + economic sustainability of national social protection floors YOUTH  Put in place a nationally-defined monitoring mechanisms and national consultations [ensure YOUTH participation]

21 DW + Job-Rich Growth Strategies Social Dialogue: Tripartism and Bipartism FOA Collective Bargaining Better Collective Agreements for Youth  Demand a different macroeconomic governance and democratic regime that not only recognise but also respect the role of social partners in social dialogue, industrial relations and rights at work including the right to FOA and Collective Bargaining aimed at improving on wages and other terms and conditions of work [Better Collective Agreements for Youth]  Support a wider coverage of collective bargaining and social partner dialogue living wage  Set minimum wages through law and support collective agreements to ensure a > and by doing so establish minimum wage floors in labour markets taxation of assets and imposition of higher VAT on luxury goods  Limit the excess of top corporate remuneration through corporate governance reforms, legislation and progressive taxation [taxation of assets and imposition of higher VAT on luxury goods]

22 Productive Structural Transformation

23 Conclusions Multi-pronged and balanced strategies for growth and job creation Targeted youth employment action through tripartite consensus and time-bound action plans Apprenticeships, skills training and other work- training programs Comprehensive packages of labour market measures targeting specific groups of young people Employment services that target youth needs Multiple services for entrepreneurship, social enterprises and cooperatives development Bipartite and tripartite cooperation Platforms for exchanging knowledge and lessons of what works

24 THE END QUESTIONS

25 Thank you!


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