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SESSION ILO Crisis Response Strategies and Experience VIII 1 ILO Crisis Response ILO Crisis Response Strategies and Experience Strategies and Experience ILO Crisis Response : Trainers Guide InFocus Programme on Crisis Response and

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ILO Crisis Response Strategies and Experience ILO Crisis Response Strategies and Experience

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Crisis

Stages of a Crisis

Pre-crisis Post-crisis

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& Crisis early warning and monitoring & Crisis preparedness/contingency

planning

& Crisis mitigation/prevention

Pre-Crisis Response Priorities

Crisis

Pre-crisis Post-crisis

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& Crisis monitoring & Emergency relief, short-term

response

Crisis Priorities

Crisis

Pre-crisis Post-crisis

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& Post-crisis monitoring & Crisis recovery and reconstruction & Long-term response/development & Crisis mitigation/prevention

Post-Crisis Response Priorities

Crisis

Pre-crisis Post-crisis

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ILO - Pre-Crisis (Generic Activities)

& Monitoring country, crisis and political trends,

UN initiatives, pronouncements, etc.

& Dialogue, consultation and networking with

  • thers in UN system, social partners, and

NGOs already in the area

& Strategic planning of possible ILO

interventions

& Advanced administrative action related to

possible options for ILO intervention

& Crisis preparedness/contingency planning

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ILO Crisis Preparedness Activities

& Develop a network of crisis focal points at the national

and local levels (different technical sectors, constituent focal points, inventory of skills and expertise)

& Develop partnerships and networks with other UN and

international organizations, NGOs, donors, constituents

& Capacity-building and training: Constituent emergency

preparedness and response, conflict resolution, shelter reconstruction

& Train and build capacities in crisis preparedness,

response and reconstruction

& Identify and develop funding mechanisms (e.g. Rapid

Action Fund)

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ILO - Post-Crisis (Immediate/Short-Term)

& Participate in joint needs assessment and analysis & Promote employment-intensive infrastructure

rehabilitation and construction programmes

& Skills training for wage employment in

programmes

& Accelerated business and micro-enterprise

training

& Develop Local Economic Development Agencies

(LEDAs), Local Employment and Economic Development Networks (LEEDs)

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ILO - Post-Crisis (Medium-Term)

& Technical assistance to national employment

  • ffices to deal with employment-related

dimensions of rehabilitation, reconstruction and reintegration programmes

& Employment and income generation & Small and micro-entreprise development & Training in business skills, wage-earner skills & Contributing to development of employment

and labour policies

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ILO Comparative Advantage

& Tripartite structure useful in mobilizing broad

consensus and social dialogue

& International labour standards can provide useful

policy frameworks in post-crisis reconstruction efforts

& Experience: Labour market development,

employment-intensive public works, vocational training and micro-enterprise development

& Building national data and statistical capacity & Research capacities (on women, gender analysis

and marginalized groups, etc.)

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Potential Role of ILO Constituents

& Support dialogue, reconciliation, reconstruction of social fabric & Contribute to the determination of priorities in reconstruction & Play an active role in the design, implementation and monitoring

  • f the recovery programmes

& Advocate for employment dimensions of recovery programmes & Provide management skills, commodities and access to

infrastructures and facilities to deliver emergency assistance

& Contribute to economic restructuring, including retraining,

redeployment and “right-sizing” of the work force

& Contribute, as the international community of workers and

employers organizations, to the strenghtening of national

  • rganizations in crisis countries
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ILO Experience

& Entrepreneurship/skills training

for ex-combatants (Mozambique)

& Vocational training, labour-based

infrastructure rehabilitation and small-enterprise promotion (Cambodia)

& Support in elaborating a new

labour code (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Post-Conflict

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& Promote reconstruction of

riverbank defenses using employment-intensive public works (Nicaragua)

& Collaborate with HABITAT to

encourage house reconstruction strategies using small, specialized construction enterprises for their extensive employment benefits

& Cooperate with IDRND to build capacities of municipalities and

their local governments to manage reconstruction and prevention efforts

ILO Experience Hurricane Mitch in Central America

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ILO Experience

& Technical support for local economic development

and credit components of the Small Entrerprise and Human Development (SEHD) programme (South Africa)

& Advisory missions to provide

advice and technical assistance

  • n employment and labour

market policies (Central and Eastern Europe)

& Support for local labour market restructuring projects

(e.g. Czech Republic)

Social and Political Transitions

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& Assist with the development of post-crisis employment insurance

schemes, poverty alleviation strategies, labour-based infrastructure development (Thailand, 1997-1998)

& Preparation of options for emergency and medium-term

employment in response to severe fiscal deficit and recession (Ecuador, 1999)

ILO Experience Financial/Economic Downturns & Assist in the formulation of action

programmes to implement employment-friendly recovery, direct employment programmes, employment funds for direct job creation (Indonesia, 1999)

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Lessons Learned

& Employment-intensive methods for development

and maintenance of rural infrastructure are very effective tools

& LEDAs can play an important role in reviving local

economy after conflict situations

& Ex-combatants abandon their weapons where

temporary employment exists and when they are fully employed

Response to Armed Conflicts

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Lessons Learned

& Use rural development and employment-

intensive technologies

& Consequences of earthquakes can be

reduced through improvements in legal, technical and supervisory regulations and procedures to improve safety and housing construction

Response to Natural Disasters

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Lessons Learned

& ILO’s early intervention in the humanitarian phase

  • f assistance efforts facilitates the integration of

the employment dimension into comprehensive interagency reconstruction strategies

& Rapid response requires both rapid assessment,

and rapid release of funds and seed money for immediate projects

Response to Social and Political Transitions

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Lessons Learned

& Closer collaboration is required with

international financial institutions to obtain funding for ILO policy proposals

& ILO’s Area and Regional Offices can play a

major role in resource mobilization to support rehabilitation and development interventions

& Unemployment insurance can soften impact of

these crises

Response to Economic and Financial Downturns