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Unit for Social Development and Education of the
OAS Technical Secretariat of the IACMLDr.
Sofialeticia Morales Garza, Director
UDSEPresentation at the Working Groups
MeetingWashington, DC May 2004
HORIZONTAL COOPERATION FACING LABOUR
CHALLENGES IN THE AMERICAS
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HORIZONTAL COOPERATION STRATEGY
CENTRALIZED KNOWLEDGE
HORIZONTAL COOPERATION
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MINISTERIAL PROCESS
CIVIL SOCIETY
UDSE - OAS
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
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HORIZONTAL COOPERATION STRATEGY
STAGES
CURRENT SITUATION
Identified
Developed
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION
Present History
Historical
Description What? Who? How? When? Where? Why?
Planeación y Evaluación
Systematization
Planning Projectss Focus Collaborative Learning
Prospects
BET BIG
Situation
Situational
Stakeholders Scenarios Forces in Conflict
Windows of Opportunity
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Workshop on Occupational Health and
SafetyCERSSOs Subregional experienceSan
Salvador, El Salvador April 29 30, 2004

• Ministers of Labour
• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Guatemala
• Representatives from the Ministers of Labour
• Antigua Barbuda
• Argentina
• Chile
• Canada
• Dominica
• Grenada
• Mexico
• Perú
• Republica Dominicana
• Suriname
• Trinidad Tobago

Advisory Bodies CEATAL y COSATE Experts Centers
and Instances of Occupational Health and
Safety International Organizations OAS, PAHO,
ILO and FISO.
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
CERSSO Decrease the number accidents and
diseases linked to the workplace.
Description
Description
What?
What?
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
Council of Ministers of Central America, Panama
and Dominican Republic in the framework of the
Assembly of Ministers of Labour within the SIECA
in 2000
Description
What?
Who?
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
Political political will of 8
ministers Funding USDOL ABT Assoc. Technical 8
experts from countries and support from
international experts and agencies (PAHO and ILO)
Description
What?
Who?
How?
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
Stage 1 (2000-2004) Creation of CERSSO and
financial sustainability by USDOL Stage 2
(2004-2008) Transit from CERSSO to FUNDACERSSO.
Challenge financial and technical
sustainability
Description
What?
Who?
How?
When?
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
Stage 1 CERSSO in El Salvador with subregional
impact Stage 2 FUNDACERSSO all countries with a
rotary function
Description
What?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
1500 people in 200 factories in the maquila
sector of the 8 countries found a return from 3
to 33 Investing in OHS increases productivity
and business competitiveness Represents 11 of
GDP reduction in Labour fatalities Increase in
productivity Strategic issue in the free trade
agreements
Description
What?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
Historical

• Interplay of
• Political will at the highest level ministers of
  Labour from 8 countries
• Political and financial cooperation will from the
  United States
• 1991 Protocol of Tegucigalpa SICA SIECA
  support to the central American integration
  system
• Negotiation of the Central American Free Trade
  Agreement USA and Central America and Canada
  and Central America
• Will from the agencies and organizations to
  support the central American processes.
• Unification of projects addressing the problem,
  PAHO, ILO, USAID, WHO

Description
What?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
Historical
Ministers of Labour (Isidoro Nieto) and
USDOL Directors of CERSSO Marvin Lan, Rafael
Amador Agencies PAHO IDB, SIDA, AECI, ILO, ABT
Assoc.
Description
What?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
Situational
Stakeholders
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
Historical

• Current
• CERSSO ends (Funding ends in June 2004)
• Factual
• Transformation into FUNDACERSSO with the
  financial sustainability in countries and with
  projects for external funding.

Description
What?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
Situational
Stakeholders
Scenarios
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
Historical

• Dependent interdependent Independent
• Entrepreneurial Sector Union Sector (workers)
  Government Sector

Description
What?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
Situational
Stakeholders
Scenarios
Forces in conflict
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
Historical

• Stregthen Central American integration
• Strengthen inter sectoral efforts
• IV Summit of the Americas and the XIV IACML

Description
What?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
Situational
Stakeholders
Areas of Opportunity
Scenarios
Forces in conflict
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
Historical

• Transition
• CERSSO FUNDACERSSO
• Instance of homologation, coordination and
  consensus of 8 countries
• Critical transference to other regions

Planning and Evaluation
Sistematization
What?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
Situational
Stakeholders
Areas of Opportunity
Scenarios
Forces in conflict
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -
Historical

• Lessons froms other sub-
• regions
• (Strategy EIC)
• Media
• OHS content included in curriculum
  (undergraduate and graduate levels)
• Linkages with Academia
• Information Systems
• National/ Sub-regional

Description
Planning and Assesment
Sistematization
What?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
Situational
Actors
Opportunity Areas
Scenarios
Conflict forces
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CRITICAL TRANSFERENCE PROCESS OF ACTION AND
REFLECTION - CERSSO -

• Challenges
• Respect for work rights and principles.
• Adjustment to State structures in the context of
  the challenges of the globalization process.
• Informal Sector
• Vulnerable populations
• HIV/AIDS
• Strengthening and universalization of laws
• Development and improvement of information
  systems

Historic
Description
Planning and Assesment
Sistematization
What?
Who?
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
Situational
Actors
Opportunity Areas
Scenarios
Conflict forces
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FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS

• FUNDACERSSO
• FUNDACERSSO as an action responding to the
  commitments of the Summit of the Americas and the
  XII and the XIII IACML in all 8 Central American
  countries and the Dominican Republic
• Support project for FUNDACERSSO with the
  collaboration of the ILO and the PAHO to submit a
  Project Concept to the CIDIs Multilateral
  Special Fund of the OAS
• Promote the Central American experience of
  FUNDACERSSO in the International Fora such as the
  Hispanic Forum at the National Safety Councils
  Congress in the US, and at the XVII World Safety
  and Health Congress sponsored by the ILO, the
  International Social Safety Association (ISSA)
  and the National Safety Congress of the US
• Promote greater cooperation between the Canadian
  Center for Occupational Health and Safety
  (CCOHS), in its capacity as collaborative center
  of PAHO/WHO, with FUNDACERSSO and with other
  subregional initiatives

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FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS

• CENTRAL AMERICA
• Meeting of the Central American Ministers of
  Labour with IDB, OAS, ILO and PAHO authorities to
  explore mechanisms to support FUNDACERSSO
• Seek for mechanisms to strengthen information
  systems throughout the Central American Region.
• CARICOM
• Support CARICOM and the counterparts of the OECS
  in strengthening a subregional mechanism in
  OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY.

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FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS

• INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
• TROIKA presents the issue of OHS during the next
  Meeting of PAHOs Directive Council.
• Identify virtual and presential mechanisms that
  will allow to continue offering Masters and
  Diplomas in Occupational Health and Safety with
  the support of the OAS Educational Portal of the
  Americas, the Inter American University
  Organization, the International Labour
  Organization (ILO) and the Pan American Health
  Organization in order to promote joint
  certifications with national and foreign
  universities.
• Promote subregional initiatives that draw from
  the lessons learned from CERSSOs subregional
  cohesion in the area of Occupational Health and
  Safety with special emphasis on the strengthening
  tripartite work.
• Work with the Trade Unit of the OAS in order to
  strengthen the discussion of this issue in the
  context of the Trade Agreements.

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FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS

• MINISTERS
• Include the issue of Occupational Health and
  Safety as a key thematic area within the Plan of
  Action of the XIV IACML in Mexico.
• Promote greater linkage and work between
  Ministers of Labour and Ministers of Health, as
  well as between Ministers of Labour and Ministers
  of Education
• Negotiate through the presidents of the Councils
  of Ministers of Labour of MERCOSUR, CAN, CARICOM
  and the Central American countries and Dominican
  Republic, Panama and Belize, the development of a
  joint plan to coordinate actions on Occupational
  Health and Safety
• Establish a network of focal points in
  Occupational Health and Safety to support the
  joint work of the OAS, PAHO, ILO and the European
  Agency of Safety and Health at Work (European
  Union).
• Promote yearly workshops on Occupational Health
  and Safety organized by the Ministers of Labour
  from the different subregions with the support
  from the OAS as Technical Secretariat of the
  IACML, the PAHO, ILO, IDB and other agencies

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SUB-REGIONAL ANALYSIS
SUB-REGION ANALYSIS
NORTH AMERICA Increase inter-governmental relations Integration processes reinforcement of national laws, strengthening of the capacity of labor administration,commitment with the principles and rights of the ILO Declaration.
ANDEAN AND MERCOSUR Integration processesOccupational accident and illnesses information systems, demographic, occupation and economic development profiles, training and technical assitance South/South and South/North. Consultation Period with Ministers for aproval of Agreements between countries and sub-regions. Presentation at the Working Group II Inter sectorial Coordination Labor - Health. Priority action regarding the informal sector, child labor,attention to the old and new professional risks epidemies.
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SUB-REGIONAL ANALYSIS
SUB-REGION ANALYSIS
CENTRAL AMERICA Sub-regional working groups especialized in OHS Negotiate agreements and share material and methodology from CERSSO. Expand the number of country participants and benefitiaries Integration processesregular meeting of the National OHS Committes, sincronization of legal norms. Occupational accident report and ilnesses information system. Based on the relevance of OHS, activities such us the International OHS Workshop (XIII IACML) should be institutionalized. This activity could be held every year, in a location chosen by the participating countries and with a special feature topic (maquila, mining, construction, migrant workers, child labor) Coordinated efforts between Labor and Health
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SUB-REGIONAL ANALYSIS
SUB-REGION COMMITMENT
CARICOM Letter of Commitment We stronly recommend the topic of OHS to be included in the Agenda of the next Meeting of the CARICOM Ministers of Labor where Belizes experience as a member of CERSSO will be examined with the purpose of analyzing the best way to adapt CERSSO to our context, in the light of the need to establish common standars in the context of the FTAA. CERSSO, PAHO and the OAS will support Belize on the presentation of CERSSO during CARICOMs Labor Meeting