Background
ActionAid Ethiopia is a Gender Justice, Good Governance and Poverty Eradication organization working to achieve gender equality and poverty eradication. In Ethiopia, AAE works to challenge various forms of power and build capacities to crate people agencies of critical mass of communities especially women and girls living in poverty and exclusion to fulfil their rights, ensure redistribution of resources and build their resilience. We priorities to work with women and girls and their organizations, networks civil society organizations, national and local government, and other allies to overcome gender injustice and structural causes of poverty, we engage in national level policy works to influence the agendas of women and girls to tackle gender injustice.
AAE has developed a three-year project lasting from Jan 2021- Dec 2023 in combatting child labor, human trafficking, and exploitation. Promoting decent work is one key area of the project as attention to respect and protection for the right to decent work are some of the growing concerns of the labor force in different sectors. Decent work is employment that "respects the fundamental rights of the human person as well as the right of workers in terms of conditions of work safety and remuneration. ... respect for the physical and mental integrity of the worker in the exercise of their his/her employment.
Despite the pledge made by the Ethiopian government to realize SDG (Sustainable Development Goals), one of which is Decent work and economic growth, it seems that many businesses are not aware of this right. Even worse, there are businesses that do not know the basic legal requirements stipulated by the national labor law. Research conducted by AAE focusing on agri-business, large-scale industries, and service sectors revealed that business owners believe that the creation of opportunities is enough, and consider the right to decent work and human rights of the labor force as a luxury.
Though we are left with few years for the realization of SDGs, as a state, it seems that our government is far behind the achievement it wants to realize in making goal 8 of the SDG (Decent work and Economic Growth) a reality. Some of the reasons for such failure could be knowledge and information gap and limited circulation of copies of legal instruments in the capital city and some regional cities only. The gap grows wider as one moves to the lower structure of government bodies to the kebele level.
However, currently, this trend has faced serious challenges due to the emerging issues of human rights in businesses. Taking all this and other factors that aggravate modern slavery into consideration and violation of the right to decent work, AAE has designed the 3 years project. The overall goal of the project is to decrease the scale and prevalence of ECLAHT, especially human trafficking and child labor, in Ethiopia. The project has three outcome areas,
1. Governments have implemented measures to prevent, identify and address ECLAHT, and to protect and monitor vulnerable groups and victims of ECLAHT).
2. Businesses have implemented anti-ECLAHT measures to prevent, identify and tackle the use of human trafficking and forced labor, including the worst forms of child labor, in their own operations and supply chains.
3. Vulnerable individuals and groups are more capable of resisting recruitment to ECLAHT.
One of the activities AAE plans to implement to meet the above outcomes is developing a tool kit containing basic elements of decent work and brief information on supporting legal instruments related to it.
1. Objective
The major objective of this task is to facilitate general access to information on decent work for businesses, some government actors, employees, and labor unions.
2. Timeline
The ask must be accomplished with in 20 consecutive days. (refer the ToR)
The Consultant should demonstrate the following requirements in their application to be considered.
