Workforce and Local Economic Development
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Implementation of the International Labor Organization’s community-based training model, including:
- Developing community structures for microfinance support programs, management systems of community enterprises, and capital support for community corporations/cooperatives
- Providing skills training opportunities through needs-based vocational training and enterprise literacy and entrepreneurial programs
- Developing partnership agreements with government and non-government organizations and corporate linkages between the communities and the formal sector, especially with business corporations
- Implementing rural economic and income-generating policies and strategies at the grassroots level
- Creating public awareness of programs and strategies
The Problem
In Pakistan and the Philippines, there is a desperate need to create employment opportunities and enhance the capacity of the most disadvantaged groups to generate income. The alarming increase in poverty in Pakistan, with the greatest increases in rural areas, is a major problem that this project will address. In the southern provinces of the Philippines, young Muslims and those in the rural areas are the most adversely affected by poverty.
Our Strategy
Project Objectives:To build on and enhance the capacity for developing skills and creating employment opportunities for the most socially and economically disadvantaged groups in Pakistan and the Philippines, including rural women, disenfranchised young adults, and people with disabilities.
Targets:
- North West Frontier and Punjab Provinces, Pakistan – Poor rural women, disenfranchised young people, and people with disabilities
- Mindanao, Philippines – Poor women affected by military conflict, young adults from Central Mindanao, ethnic groups including highlanders and lumads living in rural villages affected by the war, and people with disabilities
Results
Last Updated:
August 2007
- Grantee:
- International Labor Organization (ILO)
- Implementing Partners:
- Employers Organizations, Government agencies at national, Local NGO Partners
- Contact Information:
- (202) 693-4900 / Office of Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA)
- Tags:
- Wage practices
