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The ILO in the
Philippines
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The International Labour Organization
• UN organization responsible for international
labour standards.
• The ILO was created in 1919.
• It is the only 'tripartite' United Nations agency
that brings together representatives of
governments, employers, and workers.
• 181 members.
• Decent Work for All:
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Employment creation
Standards at work
Social protection
Social Dialogue
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The ILO in the Philippines
• The Philippines joined the ILO in 1948.
• As of May 2012, the Philippines had ratified
35 conventions of which 34 are enforced, including
the 8 fundamental conventions:
 freedom of association and collective bargaining
(C87, C98)
 forced labour (C29, C105)
 discrimination (C100, C111)
 child labour (C138, C182)
The Millennium Development Goals
‘Achieve full and
productive employment
and decent work for all,
including for women and
young people’
The ILO will continue to work towards the
Millennium Development Goals (MDG), with
a special focus on target 1b as agreed upon
at the 2005 MDG World Summit, through its
country programme and support and of the
national and UN frameworks.
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Philippine policy and programme frameworks:
Successful interventions to mainstream Decent Work!
Philippine Development
Plan 2011-2016
UNDAF
2012-2018
Philippine Labor and
Employment Plan 20112016
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ILO CO-Manila Programme Areas, 2012-2013
Standards &
Rights at work
Employment
creation
Social
Protection
• Promoting
international
labor standards,
including
freedom of
association
• Gender equality
• Minimum-wage
setting
• Elimination of
child labour
• Indigenous
Peoples
• Maritime Sector
• Domestic Work
• Youth
employment
• Skills training
• Green business
• Green Jobs
• Succeeding in
Business
• Local economic
development in
crisis areas
• HIV & AIDS
• Migration
• Trafficking
• Climate Change
Adaption
• Maternity
protection
Social Dialogue
• Strengthening
tripartitism
• Strengthening
workers’
organizations
• Strengthening
employers’
organizations
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Promoting International Labour Standards
• Advocacy on Freedom of
Association (FOA), Collective
Bargaining (CB)
• Promotion of the ratification of conventions,
including:
• Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
• C169: Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
• C187: Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and
Health Convention, 2006
• C189: Domestic Workers Convention, 2011
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Eliminating Child Labour
• Ongoing USDOL-funded IPEC project
• Prevention and withdrawal of children
from child labour with local stakeholders
in Quezon, Masbate, Northern Samar, and
Bukidnon
• National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)
restructured and its effectiveness being
enhanced through organizational
development sessions
• Results of new National Survey on
Children was released in June 2012
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Indigenous Peoples (IP)
• Increased capacity of indigenous
peoples in the Caraga Region and
in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato in
the development and protection
of their ancestral domains
• Enhanced knowledge of IPs of
their rights under Indigenous
Peoples Rights Act (IPRA)
• Strengthened traditional
livelihoods through hands-on
skills development and the
establishment of an IP
microfinance facility that is
run by indigenous women
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Local economic development and
addressing crises in Bondoc Peninsula
• Joint Project with FAO under the UN Trust Fund for Human
Security
• Local economic assessment and strategy formulation for four
LGUs
• Delivery of livelihood and employment support activities to
families in project communities
• Integration of climate sensitive livelihood technologies
• FAO support for small-scale irrigation and aqua-culture
development
• Conduct peace-building activities
• Formulation of disaster preparedness and contingency plans
for four LGUs
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Employment Intensive Infrastructure
Ongoing cash for work and other employmentintensive infrastructure projects in Sendong-affected
areas in Cagayan de Oro City and Iligan City
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Climate Change Adaptation
• Public-Private Partnerships created in the implementation of
risk reduction and financial risk management mechanisms for
Climate vulnerable farming populations
• Three Models of Innovative Integrated Financial Package
[Loan-cum Savings, Social Protection (health, crop, credit life),
and Training-capacity-building- financial Literacy, Agri and
Enterprise) developed and tested- demonstrating role in
improved productivity and enhanced climate change resilience
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Green Jobs
• Green Jobs was included as strategy to address employment and
environment link in the National Labor and Employment Plan 20112016 and the Strategic Action Plan for Climate Change 2011-2016
• A National Green Jobs Conference was convened in August 2011
• Green products and services to promote green jobs in the
construction of socialized will be tested as a pilot project from
December 2011-June 2012
• Developed the enterprise training package for the auto sector
supply chain (Greener Business – Better Workplace CORE and
Deepening modules) and conducted an initial run with pilot
companies
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Youth employment and migration
• National Action Agenda for presented to
President Benigno Aquino III
• Training of disadvantaged youth trained
to start their own business
• Entrepreneurship adopted under
secondary education curriculum.
• Public Employment Service Office
(PESO) staff in project areas trained on
basic employment services
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Migration
EU-funded project on “Decent Work Across Borders:
A Project for Migrant Health Professionals and Skilled
Workers”
• Project to cover the Philippines, India, and Viet Nam
• Objectives:
1.Strengthened mechanisms of policy dialogue involving origin
and destination counties
2.Strengthened employment services for health care
professionals and skilled workers, specifically in nursing
3.Enhanced labour market information system for policy
planning and review
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Reintegration of Trafficked Victims
• Local Migration and Development Plans, focusing on economic
opportunities for returning migrants and their families
• Training of 20 Anti-Trafficking Focal Persons in DSWD Field
Offices
• Return migrants and migrant families assisted through group
conferences and individual assessments, psychosocial
counseling, stress debriefing, and psychiatric treatment
• Skills training on financial literacy and basic accounting, and
starting a small business for women beneficiaries
• Women return migrants organized to initiate a fund build-up to
start their respective small businesses
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Maternity Protection
• Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is included as a key
component of the national Family Welfare Programme
(FWP), and good practices on workplace-based support
for working mothers has been documented
• Strengthened Family Welfare Programme and other
tripartite mechanisms piloted in three cities, with
established partnership/network of Family Welfare
focal persons, FW committees and JP local
implementers
• Models of informal sector workplace interventions for
EBF documented and designed in three JP cities
• Workplace inputs integrated in the final Implementing
Rules and Regulations of the Expanded Breastfeeding
Promotion Act of 2009
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HIV and AIDS
• Promoting healthy lifestyles as an entry point to introduce HIV
and AIDS interventions in BPO worksites
• Baseline study on knowledge, attitude, and behavior of BPO
employers and workers
• Development of Behavior Change Communication Strategy
and materials
• Global Partnership on HIV interventions in the Maritime Sector
• Pre-Departure Orientation Seminar/HIV Module assessment
and revision
• Development of IEC materials (video and print) on HIV for
Filipino
• Development of DOLE Roadmap to support the AIDS Medium-Term
Plan V (2011-2016)
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Achieving outcomes through …
Strengthening social dialogue
Strengthening workers’ organizations
Strengthening employers’ organizations
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