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

Decent Employment in Transport:

What can World Bank Programmes Contribute?

Transport and Social Responsibility Thematic Group

Peter Roberts24 March 2004

24 Mar 2004 Transport and Social Responsibility - second meeting

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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): decent’d – 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/ilsic.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 – IndicatorsExamples:

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.

Documents

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