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Value chain development
Opportunity Salone Programme
The Opportunity Salone Programme aims at job creation and job quality improvement with a focus on women and youth in Sierra Leone. It supports infrastructure improvement and immediate job creation through feeder road maintenance and longer term job creation in agricultural value chains in four districts.
Global Programme Employment Injury Insurance and Protection (ENTERPRISES)
Most of the populations in the ECOWAS countries have no access to basic social protection. In light of this, the project aims to assist both ECOWAS and the four countries covered by CO Abuja to develop nationally defined sets of basic social security guarantees for social protection floors, and social services for all.
Support to Free Movement of persons and Migration in West Africa (FMM) West Africa Technical Assistance project – Summary of ILO Role and Activities
The FMM Project intervenes in the areas of labour migration, policy development, counter-trafficking, protection of migrants’ rights, child protection, especially children on the move and social security.
Child labour: GAP 11
Global Action Programme (GAP) on Child Labour Issues Project
Employment-Intensive Investment
Quick Impact Job Creation for Youth through Labour Based Public Works
Capacity Building to District Development Stakeholders in the Northern Region of Sierra Leone
Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is currently implementing a project in the Northern region of Sierra Leone aimed at developing the capacities of various entities for comprehensive district development.
Quick Impact Employment Creation for Youth through Labour Based Public Works (QIEC)
The Project is a continuation of an ongoing programme designed to provide rapid employment opportunities and income generating activities for youth while strengthening the capacities of small contractors, local governments and MDAs to facilitate job creation at local levels. It will also stimulate local economic development development.
Child labour and education
Tackling child labour through education in African, Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) States (TACKLE) Project
National focal points for the application of the principles of the MNE Declaration in Sierra Leone achieve key milestones in 2019-2021
Since their appointment in July 2019, the national focal points for the promotion of the Tripartite Declaration of Principles on Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration) have taken specific initiatives to stimulate the application of its principles in Sierra Leone.
The Sierra Leone Local Content Agency joins hands with the Ministry of labour, employers and workers as national focal points to promote the ILO MNE Declaration in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has become the third country in Africa to appoint national focal points for the promotion of the MNE Declaration and the application of its principles.
National focal points for the promotion of the MNE Declaration in Sierra Leone: key milestones achieved in 2022
The year 2022 has been fruitful for the national focal points for the promotion of the Tripartite Declaration of Principles on Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration) in Sierra Leone. The focal points - located in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MOLSS), the Sierra Leone Local Content Agency, and in employers’ and workers’ organizations (Sierra Leone Employers Federation and Sierra Leone Labour Congress) - have taken new initiatives to promote the Declaration and the application of its principles in the country.