Decent Employment in Transport: What can World Bank Programmes Contribute

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Decent Employment in Transport What can World
Bank Programmes Contribute?

• Transport and Social Responsibility Thematic
  Group
• Peter Roberts
• 24 March 2004

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Objective

• To strengthen understanding of key social issues
  related to transport and to help develop guidance
  for optimizing the social impacts of transport
  policies and investments

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Issues

• Build on work of transport and other sectors for
  
• Inclusion for gender, age, disability etc
• Coping with Change issues of access and
  mobility, construction practice, environmental
  impact, safety and with inhibiting the
  transmission of communicable disease
• Responsibility public, private sector, individual

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Specific areas of work

• Access for All in the context of fighting
  poverty
• - urban transport design for inclusion of
  disabled aged etc.
• Mainstreaming gender and transport issues
• cases and resources
• Inhibiting disease (particularly HIV/AIDS)
  transmission
• Fostering good employment practice in transport
• ? relate to lessons from key transport safety
  issues
• headlines and links from Highways TG and other
  sub-sectors
• incentives for socially responsible transport
  operations
• public and private responsibilities

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Next steps

• ToR for Group finalized (by mid-April)
• work plan for 2004 to be agreed
• establish web page and links
• Prepare programme for 2005
• next meeting 7 April
• aim for first Wednesday every month

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Coping with change Employment

• Initiative
• Social Aspects of Construction
• Financed by DFID, UK
• Field studies in
• Ghana formal contracting bridge construction
  India (Kerala) decentd community contracting
  Zambia participatory unpaid work water
  sanit.
• Consultation and publish guidance

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Implementing Labour Standards in Construction A
sourcebookwww. lboro.ac.uk/wedc/publications/ilsi
c.htm
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What can we do?

• Define a way ahead
• Agree roles and responsibilities
• Identify which Labour Standards to focus on
• Implement
• Consultation
• Address concerns, capacity, costs
• Review contracts
• Ensure communication

• Monitor for compliance
• Use of incentives or sanctions?
• Measure the impact
• Institutionalise
• Documentation
• Develop responsibilities
• Develop a strategy

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Early output Indicators

• Examples
• Core Labour Standards
• Are the Core Labour Standards of the
  International Labour Organisation legislated by
  the Government and actively implemented by the
  construction and transport industries?
• Health and Safety
• Are appropriate Health and Safety standards
  legislated by the Government and actively
  practised, monitored and reported by the
  construction and transport industries?
• Is there significant application of the spirit of
  these requirements?

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Chinaestimated 200,000 industrial fatalities per
year(Ref. The 2nd China International Forum on
Work Safety China International Work Safety
Occupational Health Exhibition, Sept. 1-4, 2004,
Beijing PR China
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China context

• Review procurement procedures
• Has a strong influence on approaches
• Addressing the big picture, while the detail is
  worked on
• Review current contracting procedures and compare
  with site practice
• Identify gaps
• Priority areas for China
• Who is doing what?
• Opportunities to take forward
• Who will be involved?

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Cambodia and Philippines

• PRIP Cambodia
• Government has signed up to the ILO conventions
  on labour
• TTL ensured this was included in the standard
  bidding documents/contracts
• covering wages rates, age limits, gender
  equality, fair selection of labor etc.