Projects

Project: Assessing social capabilities for new technologies, innovation and job creation Beneficiary: International Labour Organisation Amount: 77.745 euros Duration: 7 months (2019-2020)   The overall objective of this project is to improve effectiveness of the design and implementation of national innovation, productive transformation and job-creation strategies. This will be achieved by promoting knowledge and providing evidence on the role of a society’s innovation capabilities in strategies to transform economies for more and better jobs.

Project: study "worker rights in globalizing economies: assessment of labour provisions in trade and investment arrangements" Contributing global research into the influence of labour provisions in trade and investment treaties on labour rights Beneficiary: ILO (via flanders - ILO trustfund) Amount: 450.000 euro Duration: July 2014 – November 2017 This project examined the extent to which existing international economic governance arrangements are effective in influencing labour standards, working conditions and the general policy environment with which companies operate when engaging in i

Project: Study 'Decent work and the Care Economy: Recognizing, rewarding and redistributing care work' Beneficiary: ILO (via Flanders - ILO trustfund) Amount: 400.000 euro Duration: January 2016 – June 2018 The need for care is rising worldwide due to increased aging. Yet the care economy is being organized very differently in different parts of the world. This project researched how these are organized according to the division of care tasks between men and women and between informal and formal care tasks.

Project: Scaling up the VCT @ Work Initiative in Mozambique Beneficiary: ILO (via Flanders - ILO Trustfund) Amount: 187.364 euro Duration: February 2017 – Fbruary 2019 There has been a lot of progress worldwide in combating HIV / AIDS, but discrepancies remain. For example, 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV are not aware of his or her status, this is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa where only 45% are aware of his or her status.

Project: Promoting decent work in tea plantations in Malawi's Thyolo District Beneficiary: ILO (via Flanders - ILO Trustfund) Amount: 275.442 euro Duration: March 2018 – March 2020 The project aims to promote sustainable, rural livelihoods and decent work through improved employment and working conditions in the tea sector in Malawi.

Project: Paving the way for a sustainable natural stone industry in India Beneficiary: ILO ( via Flanders - ILO Trust fund) Amount: 338.630 euro Duration: September 2018 – September 2020 This project focuses on improving labour standards in quarries in the Indian province of Rajasthan, and making the supply chain of natural stone more sustainable.

Project: The Sustainable Enterprise Development Facility for Job Creation in South Africa  Partner: International Labour Organisation (ILO) Budget: 3.305.000 euro  Duration: 1.01.2014 –31.12.2016 (extended till 31.06.2017) The development objective of the proposed Sustainable Enterprise Development Facility (SEDF) for South Africa is to create decent jobs for men and women in three provinces through entrepreneurship promotion and development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in sectors and value chains with employment potential.

Partner: International Labour Organisation (ILO) Duration: 2009-2011 Budget: 1.142.650 euro (151.325 euros from the Flanders Department of Work and Social Economy) The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) 'Decent Work' country programmes make an inventory of a specific country’s needs in the field of decent work. Based on this, ILO works, in cooperation with the government of the country in question, on a tailored global strategy. Over the past 10 years, the Mozambican economy has been characterized by a significant growth.

Project: Job Creation through SME Development – a knowledge sharing project Partner: International Labour Organisation Duration: 01.01.2015 – 31.12.2017 Budget: 600.000 euro South Africa has a high unemployment rate: approximately 25% of the active population do not have a job. Especially young men and women and people with disabilities are unable to find work. Therefore, the generation of prosperity by promoting decent work is one of the policy priorities of the South African government.

Project: Public procurement and the social economy Partner: International Labour Organisation Duration: 2012-2013 Budget: 630.000 euro This programme wants to examine and test possibilities for using public procurement to stimulate the social economy in South Africa. Unemployment is a huge problem in South Africa. The unemployment rate among young people aged between 16 and 30 exceeds 40%.

Project: Public and private procurement and the Social Economy Begunstigde: International Labour Organisation Periode: 01.01.2014 – 31.12.2016 (extended till 31.06.2017) Budget: 1.735.926 euro This programme of the International Labour Organization (ILO) seeks to support the social economy in South Africa through targeted use of public procurement. Unemployment is a huge problem in South Africa. The unemployment rate among young people aged between 16 and 30 exceeds 40%.

Project: Employment creation through small and medium scale enterprise development in Free State Partner: International Labour Organisation Duration: 2011-2014 Budget: 4.500.000 euro Free State Province is faced with an alarming unemployment rate, especially among young people. Many young people try their fortune as entrepreneur, but often lack the necessary skills and support to make their small businesses profitable.

Project: Building a policy framework for social economy in South Africa Partner: Economic Development Department of South Africa and the International Labour Organisation Budget: 1.324.367 euro Duration: 2017-2020 Flanders supports the Economic Development Department of South Africa in the development of a policy framework for social economy. The sector is developing fast in South Africa. It is an economy that offers innovative solutions to social challenges and aims for an inclusive, sustainable and social society.