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Ideathon for Social Justice

ILO and PAGE Project

Wildey Green Business Support Pilot Programme

To execute a BCCI Geographic-Specific Green Business Support Pilot Programme for the Wildey Business District, Barbados.

National Green Job Assessment Model for Jamaica

To support the Government of Jamaica to undertake a National Green Job Assessment Model (GJAM). This activity will support Jamaica in identifying sustainable development pathways for inclusive green economy and just energy transition.

ILO support to Nationally Determined contributions Antigua and Barbuda Just Transition

The project aims at supporting Antigua & Barbuda in the realisation of its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) target to transition to a fossil-free nation in an equitable and inclusive manner, thereby, providing direct technical support to the country to ensure a just transition of its workforce. The project is funded by UNDP Climate Promise Programme.

Joint SDG Fund

Building a resilient Belize through universal, adaptive and sustainable social protection

This two-year Joint Programme supports a stronger, coordinated, integrated, shock-responsive, and resilient social protection system in Belize that reaches the most vulnerable, women and children through the development and implementation of the National Social Protection Strategy.

Resilient Caribbean Joint Programme

Engaging and training youth and strengthening integrated social protection sector delivery

This two-year Joint Programme, seeks to respond to current challenges facing Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), including limited contributory social protection coverage, limited access for many workers in the informal sector, and a need for coherent and gender-responsive labour market programming.

Support for the transition to formality in the household services, agriculture and fisheries sectors in Jamaica

This project builds on previous ILO undertakings in Jamaica linked to Recommendation No. 204 concerning the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy

Employability Project (Barbados)

The Ministry of Labour and Social Partnership Relations (MLSP) and the National Training Institute (NTI) in collaboration with the ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean have developed a pilot project to enhance employability of persons who have lost their jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Caribbean Resilience Project

ILO programme of targeted technical assistance to Guyana, Saint Lucia and Dominica for a just transition to environmentally sustainable economies in the context of climate change adaptation

Project aims to strengthen the capacity of three target countries - Guyana, Saint Lucia and Dominica - to become more resilient (in line with R205) by ensuring that the principles embedded in the ILO “Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all” are fully adopted and implemented at national level.

Youth Employment

Caribbean Virtual Policy Network on Youth Education and Employment (VPNYEE) Initiative

The Initiative's primary goal is to help countries and stakeholders specify and understand which public policy interventions effectively support youth employment. It also aspires to put youth employment at the center of the national policy discourse through the promotion of well-informed and evidence-based practices as well as through the creation of a Caribbean led community of practice.

Child Labour

Support to Caribbean States - Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour

Social Dialogue

EU Support to facilitate participation of CARIFORUM Civil Society in the Regional Development and Integration Process: Challenges to CARIFORUM Labour, Private Sector and Employers to fulfil their EPA Obligations

A programme to enhance the capacities of the CEC and CCL with a view to their fulfilling their obligations with respect to the implementation of the Economic Partnership Agreement.

Informal Economy

Formalization of the Informal Economy in Jamaica

ILO Pilot Project in Granville and Garlands/Horseguard Communities in the Parish of St James

Occupational Safety and Health

ILO Programme on Occupational Safety and Health and the Environment in the Caribbean

The Programme to support governments as well as employers' and workers' organizations in their efforts to improve OSH at the enterprise and national levels and to contribute to environmental sustainability of Small Island Developing States.

Child Labour

Tackling Child Labour Through Education (TACKLE) – Guyana and Jamaica

Project aimed at helping to reduce poverty by providing access to basic education and skills training for disadvantaged children and youth.

HIV/AIDS

Implementing HIV/AIDS Workplace Policies and Programmes in Selected Countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean:Suriname

Labour Legislation

Harmonization of Labour Legislation in ILO Member States in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean

To review national labour legislation, in the areas of the four CARICOM agreed model labour legislation.

Seventh Actuarial Review of the National Insurance System of Trinidad and Tobago as of 30 June 2005

To undertake the Seventh Actuarial Review of the National Insurance System of Trinidad and Tobago in accordance with Section 70 of the Trinidad and Tobago National Insurance Act No. 35 of 1971.

HIV/AIDS

International HIV/AIDS Workplace Education Programme:Trinidad and Tobago

To reduce HIV/AIDS risk behaviours among workers and to reduce employment-related discrimination against persons living with HIV and AIDS.

Alternative policy options for the long-term financial consolidation of the Social Insurance Bank - Aruba

To project the financial situation of the General Old Age Pension Scheme (AOV) and the General Widows and Orphans Insurance (AWW) scheme, both administered by the Soziale Verzekeringsbank (SVb) of Aruba (Social Insurance Bank of Aruba)