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International labour and environmental standards application in Pakistan's SMEs (ILES) - Midterm Evaluation

eval_number:

2607

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2607

location:

country:

Pakistan

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

International labour and environmental standards application in Pakistan's SMEs (ILES) - Midterm Evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2022-08-15 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Policy coherence

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comments:

The recommendations are well taken note of and being implemented

action_plan:

The support is being provided by the project to the Employers’ Federation of Pakistan (EFP) in localizing an ILO COMPLIANCE plus tool for EFP to service enterprises for self-assessment on compliance. The tool is an assessment tool based on 4 broad areas covering good employment practices, namely equal opportunities in employment, employer-employee relations, work arrangement practices (wages and benefits and working hours), and environment (environment responsibility, and workplace environment. The enterprise is assessed not only on minimum standards set out in the law. It requires sometimes more than what the law requires as well. The tool, once finalized, will be piloted in Sindh province by the EFP to its membership enterprises. The EFP is planning to provide certification on satisfactory completion of an assessment. The tool will be owned by EFP and the certification will be given by EFP which is valid for a period of 2 years. The EFP will be developed capacity to provide the training for enterprises in order to prepare them for certification. The project is also supporting Pakistan Trade Association in implementing the Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) Lean Manufacturing/Productivity in Sindh and Punjab provinces. The SCORE LEAN is a model of workplace cooperation and is more focused upon improving quality and productivity and better working conditions in medium/larger, more automated, enterprises (which are typical of those supplying to international brands). The project approach on this support is through training of the selected local business development service providers (BDS) and training consultant to provide the services to the enterprises.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

CO-Islamabad

title:

To increase strategic coherence between enterprise and policy level interventions, develop synergies with productivity enabling environment stakeholders/programmes using mainstreaming approaches to promote compliance and improved practices.
• Increase cooperation with MCC and Industry Associations– potentially expanding the project steering committee
• Explore possible linkages to investment/business facilitation policy and programs: for example, Export Processing Zones, Sialkot Tannery Zone and similar initiatives.

project_symbols:

PAK/16/03/EUR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/14868

information_source:

Country Office

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