“These experiences will usefully feed into the forthcoming High-Level Segment of ECOSOC, which has chosen to debate decent work and sustainable development as its special theme this year.”
“Although there is still work in progress, this and other similar projects proved to be a viable strategy for decentralized, pro-poor growth which is led by small enterprises assisted by national and local government in a private-public partnership”, says Frans Roselaers, Director of the ILO Department of Partnerships and Development Cooperation. ”It has led to improved governance and efficiency of government spending, better revenue collection, and small enterprise development benefiting poor groups, including a large proportion of women”.
The International Labour Conference in June 2006 called the Ghana Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) a good example for the successful implementation of an integrated ILO programme for poverty reduction.
The local economic development scheme is now to be replicated in other regions of the country as part of a US$100 million youth employment programme and of the new employment policy to be implemented under the coordination of the Ministry of Manpower starting in 2006.
The ILO DWCP in Ghana for 2006-2009 will build on the work of the pilot and focus on local economic development and women's entrepreneurship to support the youth employment programme.
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