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Decent Employment in Transport: What can World Bank Programmes Contribute?

Decent Employment in Transport: What can World Bank Programmes Contribute?. Transport and Social Responsibility Thematic Group Peter Roberts 24 March 2004. Objective.

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Decent Employment in Transport: What can World Bank Programmes Contribute?

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  1. Decent Employment in Transport: What can World Bank Programmes Contribute? Transport and Social Responsibility Thematic Group Peter Roberts 24 March 2004

  2. 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 Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

  3. 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 Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

  4. 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 Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

  5. 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 Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

  6. Coping with change: Employment Initiative: • Social Aspects of Construction • Financed by DFID, UK • Field studies in: • Ghana: formal contracting – bridge construction; India (Kerala): decent’d – community contracting; Zambia: participatory unpaid work – water + sanit. • Consultation and publish guidance Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

  7. Implementing Labour Standards in Construction: A sourcebookwww. lboro.ac.uk/wedc/publications/ilsic.htm Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

  8. Define away 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 What can we do? Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

  9. 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? Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

  10. 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 Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

  11. 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? Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

  12. 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. Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

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