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; · the "more promotional approach" of the ILO Declaration, which states that the obligation of member states to respect, promote, and realize the principles concerning the fundamental rights is matched by an obligation of the ILO to provide technical and advisory services; · workplace monitoring in ILO technical cooperation projects, in particular through the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) and new Declaration programs; and · developments in corporate social responsibility, such as codes of conduct and the United Nations Global Compact.
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Blenk acknowledged that international labor standards "do not reach deeply into the informal sector." However, he noted that a large portion of ILO technical cooperation projects, such as those addressing child labor, target workers in the informal economy. Additionally, ILO assistance to trade unions increasingly focuses upon the ehallenges of recruiting workers in the informal economy.
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Bru emphasized an important aspect of the ILO's work to promote "decent work": Establishing national commitments to reduce deficits in "decent work" must be based on a tripartite consensus. Although it is "the countries that are committing themselves to making improvements regarding their deficiencies in the area of decent work," he said, all of the social partners should assist in clefining common commitments and work with the ILO to meet national goals.
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The ILO's employment agenda also emphasizes the need for a strategy that promotes the major forces of change in today's global economy, including expansion of trade and foreign direct investment; promotion of the Declaration; technological innovations of all sorts in particular, the improve~ .
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This program commits African countries to setting and policing standards of good governance across the continent, respecting human rights, and working for peace and poverty reduction in return for increased aid, private investment, and a reduction of trade barriers by rich countries. "It might well be that, if this initiative fails, Africa risks becoming even more marginalized than is already the case." He concluded by saying that the NEPAD initiative should be used for aligning labor market information systems, improving collection of data, defining effective frameworks for social protection, harmonizing basic labor legislation, and reviewing migration policies within Africa.
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CHARLES NUPEN—ILO TECHNICAL ADVISOR, SOUTH AFRICA Mr. Nupen is the chief technical advisor to an ILO project on dispute resolution in the southern African region.
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Mr. Nupen added that new arrangements in the countries seek to address this issue, with most of the social partners viewing access as a "non-negotiable political imperative." Without access, which is critical to lending stability and predictability to labor markets, "disputes will continue to exhibit themselves in increasingly problematic ways on the shop floor." Turning to the issue of education, Mr.
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While noting that most countries in the Central American region have ratified the majority of the core Conventions, Mr. Villasmil said that the Declaration has been an "important qualitative step forward for the LILO1 and in the international guardianship of the core labor standards." The Declaration, he said, is transcendental because it bases the obligations of states to observe certain fundamental principles on membership and the ILO Constitution, rather than on ratification of specific Conventions.
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itS first year of operation, is to improve the application of the ratified fundamental Conventions and thereby help promote stable economic growth beneficial to the countries, businesses, and workers. The immediate objectives are to · help bring Zambian labor legislation into conformity with ratified ILO Conventions; .
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Employers have expressed concern about the high cost of the retirement benefits required by law, and the unions have criticized the government's occasional Ire to pay public employees their wages or to grant wage increases to lower-level employees. Assisting all stakeholders in the SLASA project countries to implement ILS poses different challenges.
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