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A cluster of the ILO Moscow "Poverty reduction, employment promotion and local economic development in the North West Federal Okrug of the Russian Federation"
The Project is funded by Government of Finland
The ILO Moscow office has for several years worked successfully with Finnish Ministries and organizations of the social partners to transfer the high level of OSH experience and knowledge to the Russian Federation in general and to the Northwest Okrug of Russia specifically. The work of the Finnish organizations and trade unions has been of high relevance for the Russian colleagues and the ILO Moscow has disseminated the results to the broader Russian speaking community.
The project will be executed under the auspices of the Northern Dimension Partnership on Public Health and Social Well-being, which was founded and supported, among others, by the Finnish Prime Minister in Oslo in October 2003. The OSH project is a crucial cluster of the ILO programme "Poverty Reduction, Employment Generation and Local Economic Development in the North West Federal Okrug of the Russian Federation".
Safe and decent working conditions are not only reducing poverty. Safety and health is a basic human right.
The ILO Moscow approach for poverty alleviation is based on the fact that job opportunities are needed for income generation. For this purpose development of SMEs and socially responsible enterprise restructuring are clusters of the ILO programme. Skills development is needed for workers to get the qualification for the available jobs. The level of wages and incomes need to suffice for a decent living in order to avoid working poor.
However, creation of job opportunities at any cost is not in line with the ILO policy. The working conditions have to be safe and healthy to avoid occupational accidents and diseases, which prohibits the breadwinner to provide for his/her family. In worst cases, of which unfortunately there is too much evidence, poor working conditions and accidents can lead to the loss of family members and in the end forcing children to work and out on the streets.
Sustainable development cannot be achieved without integration with community plans and social partnership.
For the purpose of this project OSH is seen in a broader context, comprising occupational safety, occupational health, conditions of employment, technical safety as well as HIV/AIDS, Child labour, migrant workers, gender issues, small businesses and the informal sector.
The OSH activities undertaken will be integrated with the on-going work of the local partners and utilising and supporting other OSH projects. The overall OSH strategy for the ILO Moscow office is defined in the attached strategy document of Feb 2004.
The main areas where work will be done are:
- identification and determination of the scope of the OSH problem to facilitate the development of safety programmes (assessment of accidents, improvement of statistics, and the development of a safety culture, main partners the TACIS-project and Perm OSH centre)
- promotion of practical and informed social partnership in OSH at enterprise level (increased creation of safety committees and their training, main partners FNPR and other Russian trade unions and SASK and Finnish trade union projects)
- calculation and awareness raising of the economic costs of poor working conditions (main partners VCOT, Dublin Foundation and selected Finnish experts from FIOH, ministries, ETLA and universities)
- development of OSH management systems at enterprises (improvement of OSH and quality management systems in a Russian context, main partners FNPR, Min of Social Affairs and Health)
- information and dissemination of experience from Finland and from joint projects (main partners Virtual Academy of Safework, Barents Newsletters)
Individual activities will be agreed separately with each institution.
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The Project has been started in April 2005. The Project Duration is 2 years.
The Project office is located in Saint Petersburg.
Roman Litvyakov, the Project Coordinator, e-mail:
ILO Moscow office - www.ilo.ru
Wiking Husberg, OSH Senior Specialist, e-mail:
Petrovka 15, apt. 23 107031 Moscow
Information support of the Project is provided by the Virtual Academy of Safe Work
