ILO sets job plan for
November 25, 2013. The ILO is now looking into
storm survivors
by Samuel Medenilla
December 3, 2013 (updated)
Manila, Philippines A livelihood program from the
International Labor Organization (ILO) awaits at least
100,000 jobless workers who survived the fury of
super-typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan)
in Eastern Visayas.
ILO Disaster Response and Livelihoods Development
Officer Simon Hills said yesterday the organization
has set this goal for the initial beneficiaries of the
program.
Hills also even as he appealed for more public
support to fund the United Nations international aid to
the Philippines.
At the moment, the UN has collected about 5 percent
of the livelihood component of its $301 million aid for
ILOs livelihood program.
Hills said the program will significantly boost the
recovery of affected provinces by targeting thousands
of vulnerable workers, who lost their livelihood or
employment.
Roy, 43, who lost his two fishing boats during
Typhoon Haiyan, builds his new fishing boat in the
ruins of a destroyed neighborhood at Tacloban City
giving jobs to survivors who are now trying to restart
their lives again. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
More than half of the estimated 5.6 million workers,
who have temporarily or permanently lost their
livelihood, belong to the vulnerable sector or those
without social protection and have little regular
income.
Ensuring jobs for 100,000 men and women that
include minimum wages, sound occupational safety,
skills development, and social protection can change
the lives of 500,000 people within 12 months, and
beyond, Hills explained.
One wage-earner can support a family of five. These
five people will be able to pay for services in their
local area; food, medicine, water, transportation. So,
the money that goes to this family through this one job
will then circulate with a multiplier effect across the
local economy, he added.
Hills said the project will also augment the
governments ongoing temporary emergency
employment program, where at least 17,000
displaced workers have registered, to help clear roads
and repair government infrastructures.
Short-term employment alone is not enough. We also
need to provide people with opportunities to develop
skills that will enable them to have more stable and
reliable sources of income and social protection,
inclusive of health insurance, Hills said.
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