Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) Convention, 1962 (No. 117) - Madagascar (Ratification: 1964)

The Committee notes the Government’s report received in October 2013 indicating that, since 2009, the continuing crisis is causing the inability to implement the Madagascar Action Plan (MAP). The Committee also notes the observations made by the General Confederation of Workers’ Unions of Madagascar (FISEMA), in a communication received on 2 September 2013 and transmitted to the Government on 19 September 2013. FISEMA notes that no provision is made to give effect to the Convention as the country does not have a social policy. Furthermore, FISEMA expresses disappointment that the MAP has been abandoned, explaining that it was dropped without the social partners’ knowledge and that no replacement document has been produced. FISEMA also expresses regret at the refusal of the Ministry of Civil Service, Labour and Social Laws to examine a draft reform of the Social Welfare Code, which has been approved by the National Labour Council and which constitutes the only instrument providing for social security for employees. The Committee requests the Government to provide any comments it may wish to make in response to observations made by FISEMA.

Parts I and II of the Convention. Improvement of standards of living. In its direct request of 2009, the Committee took note of the MAP for 2007–11 aiming to support and accelerate the application of its poverty reduction strategy for 2000–15. The Government stated that the MAP described the commitments, strategies and actions which would lead to rapid economic growth, thereby helping to reduce poverty. The Committee reiterates its request to the Government to supply, in its next report, information on the results achieved in the context of the MAP in pursuing the well-being and development of the population and promoting its desire for social progress (Article 1 of the Convention). The Government is again requested to supply information on measures taken to improve living conditions in rural areas, increase production capacity and raise the standard of living of workers in the informal economy (Articles 3 and 4).

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2014.]