A Regional Tripartite CARICOMILO Meeting on LMI

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A Regional Tripartite CARICOM/ILO Meeting on LMI
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Background

• Persistent issues that need to be resolved
• Data sources
• Analysis and use
• Dissemination
• Assistance programmes Lessons learned
• New Challenges and demands for Labour Statistics
• CSME evolving regional labour market
• EPA
• Integrating Labour Stat programme with the
  overall development of statistics

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Outcomes

• LM is properly planned and sufficiently
  integrated into the government budget
• Reliable and affordable data sources for LMI are
  firmly established to produce LMI with a
  specified periodicity
• A LMI dissemination is established that enables
  policy makers and the public to use LMI for
  policy and action

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Output

• LMI strategy and three year Action Plan for the
  English and Dutch Caribbean
• Integrated into
• National Government Budgets
• Regional Statistical Work Programme
• Tripartite support
• Backing from the International Donor community
• Context Decent Work country strategies and the
  Regional Integration process

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Focus

• Agencies NSO DoL NIS Min Agriculture
• Stakeholders Employers, Trade Unions, Government
  Policy makers
• Basic data sources
• LFS
• Wage survey (where necessary combined with the NA
  survey)
• Administrative records (NIS, DoL)
• Min Agriculture ongoing surveillance
• Statistical infra-structure classifications,
  sample frames, interagency collaboration
• Funding

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Participants

• Users and producers of LMI
• Regional, International organisations and funding
  agencies.
• National delegates NSOs, MoLs, Min responsible
  for (macro-economic) Planning, NTAs (TVET),
  NIS, PEA, PES, Trade Unions, Employers
  Organisations and private and public research
  institutions

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Time line

• Initial target October 2008
• Limited time for preparation
• High level support for the meeting

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Preparatory work group

• Background paper
• A programme
• Draft outline for the strategy
• Links with the overall Statistical Strategy