18 African Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practitioners 18 Séminaire Régional des Praticiens de la Haute Intensité de Main-d'œuvreème

الندوة اإلقليمية الثامنة عشرة لملتقى الخبراء في مقاربة األشغال ذات الكثافة العمالية العالية

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Newsletter HIMO - Tunisia 2019 N°1

The 18th Regional Seminar for Llabour-Based Practitioners

The Government of the Tunisian Republic through the Ministry of Development, Investment and International Cooperation, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), will host the18th Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practitioners in the capital Tunis from the 09th to the 13th of September 2019 in the palace hotel of gammarath This seminar is an opportunity to discuss exchange and share ideas, knowledge and experiences from the different participant countries and practitioners.

The seminar give the chance to develop on policies the practices and technologies with high potential for job creation and income generation also this debate with all the stakeholders will lead to concrete solutions and actions which participants will take them home to enrich the national policies and programmes and to enhance their national experiences.

This 18th edition of the Seminar will bring together ministers other senior leaders, and policymakers from around the world, as well as planners, experts, practitioners, researchers, academics, representatives of civil society organizations and the private sector actors. and The main theme of this edition is: “Towards sustainable and inclusive local development: Local resource-based approaches and decent job Creation” and in this edition the participants will assist many panel discussions related to many subthemes like the alternative and innovative technologie to create jobs in developing quality infrastructure, also Works and supplies to the Institutionalization and financing the mechanisms at local and national levels.

Also one of the main important issues is the employability of young women in the rural areas…

This seminar is one of the key of developments for the participant countries which is contributes to combat the unemployment and poverty by creating new areas of employment.

Interview with Mr. Zied Laadhari the Minister of Development , Investment and International Cooperation

How can we use this opportunity of organizing the 18th regional seminar to bring more of the international and regional support for development goals and what ’is your assessment for the results recorded at the level of the pilot projects which adopted the approach of the high labour intensive works in Tunisia ?

The session will be an opportunity to present and brief participants on the reforms that included investment and business at the legislative and institutional levels. In addition, the seminar will determine the measures adopted in Tunisia, such as the Investment Libertarian Laws and the improvement of the business climate, which included streamlining of enterprise events and entrepreneurship, facilitating the financing of enterprises and facilitating partnership between the public and private sectors, as well as the national incentive program for youth.

Also the regional seminar is considered as an important opportunity to exchange the experiences and the successful practice in the realization of the approach of the labour intensive work . An approach which was adopted by the African countries in the realization of the development projects. This approach has concrete results in the enhancement of many indicators related to the employment and to the development of the financial situations of the poor families.

In fact ,the experiences in many African countries differed in the application of this approach, especially with regard to public structures and ministries responsible for the division of this vision, or also the target sectors such as tourism, agriculture and infrastructure. The results, however, were the best proof of the success of these pilot experiences, which we in Tunisia, and in cooperation with our foreign partners, and the International Labor Organization (ILO), are seeking to disseminate, especially in areas that suffer difficulties and weaknesses in public investment.

In collaboration with the International Labor Office (ILO), Tunisia has launched a successful experiment under the «AZD» program, which was launched in 2012 in five governorates of Qafsa, Qassrin, Sidi Bouzid Sileana and al-Kaff, and has implemented pilot projects based on the approach of labor-intensive works (HIIMO) to support and create decent jobs through the valuation of local resources, human materials and the formation of actors in the field, such as:

Build the municipal market in both Gafsa and Sidi Bouzid, arrange roads in Gasrin, kef, Sidi Bouzid, form young men in stone and marble finishing in Tala and Sidi Aish, and form approximately 200 rural women in several fields and provide them with work. In addition to launching projects for unemployed youth and for rural women’s benefit in the area of cheese-making, painting, sheep-raising, rabbit-raising, aromatic and medicinal plants, and support for traditional industries artisans (5 craft units for the conversion of local marriages for rural women)......which made it possible to provide the equivalent of 300 permanent jobs and 650 temporary jobs and created economic mobility in the concerned authorities.

To what extent the approach of the labour intensive works can help in development and employment and private initiative areas?

The 2008 Labor-intensive work is a comprehensive approach that encompasses developmental, economic and social dimensions and is integrated in the nature of its targeting of low-income classes, enabling it to integrate into the economic cycle by creating jobs and creating micro-enterprises that contribute to the support of the resources of the less developed regions. This approach also contributes to the evaluation of local agricultural products and construction resources, which will improve the development indicators of local communities benefiting from these projects and create a kind of economic dynamism within them, in addition of the rationalization of the cost of public projects done.

18 African Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practitioners 18 Séminaire Régional des Praticiens de la Haute Intensité de Main-d'œuvreème

الندوة اإلقليمية الثامنة عشرة لملتقى الخبراء في مقاربة األشغال ذات الكثافة العمالية العالية

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The approach of the labour intensive work [HIMO]  

This approach of the Labour Intensive works adopted by the international labour organization [ILO] to supports the establishment and rehabilitation of infrastructures that form the socio-economic base for the country development, creating employment opportunities for individuals and contracting enterprises, tapping of raw materials as inputs of production and equipping people with technical know-how of executing and maintaining the public works (the general workforce and contracting enterprises), thus fostering the building of a productive and efficient workforce. It is also worth noting the importance of labour intensive activities in promoting people’s participation at the grassroots level, in terms of planning of activities, identifying beneficiaries, implementing projects and managing them, which qualifies HIMO/LIPW to be one of the appropriate tools for a Good Governance.

An outline of HIMO seminar

Date Country Session

From 26 to 28 February 1990 Tanzania 1

From 2 to 6 mars 1992 Kingdom of Lesotho 2

From 27 to 1 octobre Zimbabwe 3

From 16to 20 january 1995 South africa 4

From 22 to 26 April 1996 Ghana 5

From 29 to 3 september 1997 Uganda 6

From 3 to 7 mayo 1999 Zambia 7

From 15 to 19 october 2000 Egypt 8

From 20 to 24 mayo 2002 Mozambique 9

From 13 to 17 October 2003 Tanzania 10

From 2 to 7 2004 Kenya 11

From 8 to 12 October 2007 Central africa 12

From 30 to 4 November 2009 Uganda 13

From 5 to 9 September 2011 Ghana 14

From 24 to 28 February 2014 Cameron 15

From 26 to 30 october 2016 Benin 16

From 13 to 17 november 207 Ethiopia 17

From 9 to 13 september 2019 Tunisia 18

A century for preserving the noble principles of work …

IN 2019, the International Labour Organization – the oldest UN specialized agency – celebrated its 100th

anniversary. This organization has a long standing history of activities that contribute on advancing social justice and a decent work among the world and to preserve the rights of the workers. In The run up to the anniversary, seven Centenary Initiatives are being implemented – part of its package of activities aimed to equipping the Organization to take up successfully social justice challenges that lies in the future.

The history of the organization

The International Labour Organization was created in 1919 by Part XIII of the Versailles Peace Treaty ending First World War I. It grew out of nineteenth-century labor and social movements which culminated in widespread demands for social justice and higher living standards for the world’s working people. In 1946, after the demise of the League of Nations, the ILO became the first specialized agency associated with the United Nations. The original membership of forty-five countries in 1919 has grown to 121 in 1971 and reached the 186 countries in 2019.

During the plenary of the 18th regional seminar for labour based practitioners, an agreement was signed included the ministry of development, investment and international cooperation  [the safe deposit box] and the international labour organization ILO.

Mr. Guy Ryder

was elected as ILO

Director-General by

the ILO’s Governing

Body in May 2012

and took office on 1

October, 2012.