Inter-American Cooperation Mechanism for Labour Administration A starting point: the work done by the ILO

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Inter-American Cooperation Mechanism for Labour
AdministrationA starting point the work done by
the ILO
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Feasibility Study on an Inter-American
Cooperation Mechanism for Professional Labour
Administration,

• How can we implement it?
• How can we make it sustainable?
• How can we improve it?

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a proposal

• This proposal is a simple, minimum cost pilot
  initiative based on the practical experience
  acquired by the ILO on the subject of Labour
  Administration over time through its ongoing
  assistance to the regions governments, and its
  technical cooperation projects.
• This proposal is based on the ILO project in
  support of IACML and the experience acquired as a
  result.

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Starting point

• 1.       a network for the exchange of
  information and the generation of good
  practices.
• 2. The network would serve the purpose of
  receiving and processing the various papers,
  projects and actions produced and generated in
  the region on the subject of labour
  administration, classified by topic, country,
  method and results, in order to encourage and
  promote the exchange of information on successful
  experiences in this area, as well as to improve
  the individual countries capacity to identify
  specific needs.

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The proposal

• Initially, ILO would provide the monitoring with
  constant cooperation and information from the
  OAS, which at a later time will be in charge of
  operational management and dissemination.

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1st Phase -- ILO

• In its web page, the IACML support project will
  develop a portal including an open matrix as a
  starting point where all available information on
  assistance and projects will be synthesized
• The portal will be subject to the ILOs technical
  supervision

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1st phase evaluation

• The first deliverable will be shared with the
  IACML working groups, which will determine
  whether it is useful and appropriate as basis for
  further work, and can be transferred to the OAS
  for data feeding and monitored at the
  governmental level by countries in the hemisphere.

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The 2nd phase

• envisages independent data feed by the countries
  through the network, and as required by the
  matrix which by then will have been established,
  for a determined period and under the ILOs
  technical supervision.
• The OAS will be in charge of managing, promoting
  and disseminating knowledge of said data feed.
• The ILO will establish an open URL for queries
  regarding relevance for purposes of selecting the
  elements to be included in the matrix, so as to
  resolve any technical doubt.

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2nd phase evaluation

• An evaluation report to be sumitted to the
  Working Groups. These will establish the
  effective cost, the needs and the real
  opportunities of the network on the basis of the
  experience gained.

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Timeframe

• April-July 2005 final design of the matrix, ILO
  data summing up and processing, networking,
  informing the member countries.
• July-September 2005 OAS web page (link), email
  address for queries, dissemination, reporting,
  data feed from individual countries.
• October 2005
•          ILO reviews the data entered
•          evaluation and final proposal

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Cost

• The pilot phases will be carried out by the ILO
  using its internal resources and operational
  support from the USDOL project. Follow-up will
  require specific external resources from the
  participating countries. Their amount will depend
  on the results of the pilot phases.