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The agenda started with a diagnosis of major decent work deficits in the state, based on the four constituent pillars of this proposal: respect for fundamental principles and rights at work, generating more and better jobs, the extension of social protection and promotion social dialogue. The construction of this proposal involved several steps: a policy decision by the Government , the inclusion of this issue in participatory construction of multiannual plan ; 1st State Conference on Decent Work and the creation of an Executive Working Group to coordinate the process , promoting workshops , seminars , debates and technical meetings to socialize the proposal and the concept , the realization , the workers representations , debates on the subject , the articulation of important partnerships involving government agencies , workers , employers , government agencies , non-governmental and organized civil society , bringing together actors who contributed to the debate on the guidelines of a Decent Work Agenda . Thus, it was possible to define the concept of agenda, priorities, entitled “priorities” and the way it operates. At the conference, were signed two important normative for driving this process instruments. The first was a Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Bahia, and the International Labour Organization, whose object was the establishment of technical cooperation for preparing Agenda. The second was the State Decree 10,314 / 2007que created an Executive Working Group ( GTE ) , in order to draw up the agenda and organize the process of its construction , replaced by the Steering Committee for the Bahia Decent Work Programme , tripartite composition established by Decree No. 11.229/2008 , which came to include other actors in the world of labor and civil society , technical cooperation with the International Labour Organization . Among the actions taken by the Committee include: the systematization of actions performed by different entities for the promotion of decent work ; preparing panoramas on various areas related to the working world , the setting of priorities for the Decent Work Agenda ; and consolidation of the final text . Continuously, this group has the task tracking, monitoring and evaluation of the shares present at the Bahia Decent Work agenda. Based on management model presented, the implementation of the interventions was consolidated in the Action Plans drawn up for each thematic axis. Prioritizing social dialogue, which is one of the pillars of decent work, several activities, seminars, workshops and meetings were held under the Theme Chambers, to ensure that the program contemplated the various demands involving social actors related to each of priorities. The results of state and national conferences related to the topic as well as other sectoral plans, were observed, with the primary purpose of influencing the conduct of public policies and private actions in several areas goal, in order to contribute effectively to the promotion of decent work, plans were consolidated in Bahia Decent Work program, formalized by the Government as part of
their official responsibilities, through Decree No. 13,149 / 2011. From the beginning there was an ongoing concern with the institutionalization of the process, with a view to sustainability, which was reflected in the creation and formalization of several legal instruments or the incorporation of the proposed rule on existing legal and regulatory instruments. Another important initiative was the incorporation of the concept of decent work to the debates surrounding the governmental planning, enabling other state actions with the direct or indirect purpose of promoting decent work could be related to that program as a cross-cutting actions, allowing better monitoring general governmental activities for this purpose.
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| 5. Who implemented the initiative and what is the size of the population affected by this initiative?
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The Steering Committee for the Bahia Decent Work , and central deliberative body of the Agenda Program is formed by the Department of Labor, Employment , Income and Sports of the Government of Bahia and 10 other state authorities : the Health , Education , Planning , the administration , Agriculture , Livestock , Irrigation , Agrarian Reform , Fisheries and Aquaculture ; Science , Technology and Innovation , Justice , Citizenship and Human rights , Social Development and Fight Against Poverty ; Promotion of Racial Equality ; Industry , Trade and mining , by the Federal Government : Regional Labour and Employment of Bahia and Jorge Duprat Figueiredo Foundation for Safety and Occupational Medicine, both linked to the Ministry of Labour and Employment , for workers representations ( four central unions : Union Force ; Union general Workers ; Central of Workers , and the Workers Central ) and employers ( four associations : Federation of Industry , Agriculture and Livestock Federation , Federation of Micro and Small Enterprises , and the Trade Federation ) , by other actors such as Ministry of Labour , Regional Labor Court , Court of Justice , Legislative Assembly of Bahia state and civil society through the Association of Judges of Labor. It also includes the ILO technical cooperation. In addition , there are themed Cameras that are instances for which professionals and representations of an area related to each priority , formed to discuss , formulate proposals , coordinate and follow up actions for each of the priorities of Agenda Bahia Labour should be invited decent. Each thematic Board maintains contact with other instances of social dialogue to deal with their issues in the state. There are other strategic partners related to each of the priorities, as the State Youth Councils and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the National Federation of Domestic Workers.
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To develop the agenda, the Government of Bahia has the Department of Labor , Employment, Income and Sports - SETRE which offers a team currently with a coordinator , 04 technicians, 03 administrative staff and an intern . The SETRE acts as coordinator and executive secretary of the Agenda and Programme. The Executive Secretary is responsible for: Coordinate , secretary and advise the Steering Committee ; mobilize , coordinate , monitor and support the actions of instances of social dialogue ; prepare drafts of bills , decrees, orders , notices, terms of cooperation , agreements , regulations , work plans , letter of intent , technical notes and other documents that may be necessary to enable the activities related to agenda and the Program ; plan, organize and conduct seminars , workshops , lectures , debates , propose and develop strategies to strengthen decent work as a strategy for development with social inclusion , identify and propose actions to guide the intervention of the State Government in this area . The technical support of the International Labour Organization was instrumental in the development of the initiative , which includes : promoting dialogue among the tripartite constituents ; secure some funding from different sources to help strengthen the work of the Agenda as a whole, the implementation of some important projects of decent work , and give international credibility to the initiative . Furthermore , studies by research institutions or contracted consultants helped to subsidize , especially Labour Centre in the State of Bahia , which has the general objective of developing and deploying instruments for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the situation of occupation and income and economic activity in the State of Bahia and among the specific objectives support the structuring of a system of Decent Work Indicators of the state of Bahia , support the monitoring of the Labour Market in Bahia due to several social groups especially youth , women , Afro descendants , indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities . For the implementation, development and management of the Bahia Decent Work agenda is no specific prediction capabilities of state government in the Multi-Year Plan - PPA , which establishes the guidelines , objectives and goals of the State Public Administration for expenses. The guidelines are integrated by software and these are composed of actions and is formalized by a state law , and is available online for consultation by any citizen . This prediction is from the beginning of the implementation of Agenda, being in the 2007-2011 PPA and PPA maintained and expanded in 2012-2015, where the resources of the Decent Work Programme is R $ 25,998,000.00. In addition to the program itself, there are other values , also reported in the PPA, transversal programs that result in specific areas of the Agenda. There is a program entitled “Decent Work”, under the theme “Work and Income”, focused on Social Inclusion and Rights Guarantee. Besides the government actions, there are
actions with adherence to program each partner institution performs with own resources and advises to integrate the monitoring report, which add to the collective effort to promote decent work in Bahia.
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| 7. Who were the stakeholders involved in the design of the initiative and in its implementation?
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Monitoring: Assembling the actions of government and non-governmental institutions targeted to achieve a common goal: the promotion of decent work. Monitoring and evaluation of implementation of the Program activities through dialogue and social participation. Currently there are about 300 cataloged actions. 2) Institutionalization and formalization: Founded in July 2009, Law 11,479, to encourage the practice of decent work for companies that receive state funding and tax incentives. The rule seeks to ensure decent, safe and healthy working conditions. The Fund for Promoting Decent Work - FUNTRAD, instituted by Law 12,356 of Sep/2011 Fund is an accounting and financial for fundraising that is presented as an additional source of funding. Has received allocation of resources resulting from terms of adjustment of conduct signed by the Ministry of Labor and convictions in labor courts. To enable wide access to resources, notice of a public selection of projects enabling governmental organizations and civil society institutions enable their projects to receive future funding was released. 3 ) Health and Safety Guidance Worker : Formed 64 600 multipliers in safety and health at work in urban and rural areas ( Jan/2007 to Nov/2013 ) , 36 thousand workers were benefited by the actions of the Health Surveillance worker developed under the State Network of Occupational Health. And 2.1 million civil and labor Documentation issued, with 1.8 million portfolios of work and 267,300 identity cards in the capital and countryside. 4 ) Protection of Children and Adolescents : 86,408 children and adolescents followed by System and Monitoring Shares offered by the Socio- Educational Services Program for the Eradication of Child Labor by March 2013 and 65.615 children and adolescents in situations of child labor are being treated and monitored in Living Services and Strengthening Linkages in the municipalities in 2013 . 30.839 youth programs certified by the professional qualification Trail SETRE ( Employment, Arts and Sports ) , Citizenship and Youth Worker Projovem . 5 ) Public Service : Developed recovery actions of public servants , the server You program , which includes initiatives for recovery and improved quality of life and occupational health of the state civil service , professional development , increase education and access to goods cultural and quality of life.
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| 8. What were the most successful outputs and why was the initiative effective?
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A computerized system for monitoring the actions of the program was developed. The system are reported the following items : Action - Responsible - Situation ( normal development within the deadlines - Development Delayed - Next of maturity - Development completed ) - Progress - Audience - Local Expertise - Start date - date end - Date updated. This information is accompanied by the Managing Committee of the Bahia Decent Work Programme , consisting of 28 institutions in the world of work that has come their core competencies to promote monitoring and evaluation of the program , in addition to producing regular reports on the collaboration of the executing agencies their actions . Moreover , with regard to the actions of the Government , there is the responsibility of the Executive Secretariat inform semester at the Civil House , about the implementation of actions under the responsibility of the State Departments . There are still spaces monitoring by social dialogue where experts and institutions and representative entities dealing with the priority agenda Bahia Decent Work themes. And any citizen consults the annual reports generated by the computerized monitoring system. Overcoming fragmentation and segmentation is fundamental to achieve the ideal of the joint, integrated and intersectoral action agenda requirement. This understanding enables institutions, especially the state Secretariat, place shares its specific programs also shares how attending the program. This initiative ensures the convergence of efforts to achieve a common result and enhances the results as well as avoids overlapping activities and facilitates identify where the gaps are. Furthermore, it is essential to observe the dynamics, autonomy, responsibility, role and area of each institution involved. Actions that meet both the goals that are understood in Agenda converge as related and supportive, without it withdraws its identity, particularity or autonomy and the role of the protagonist executing institution. Agenda, so no seizes the actions, but provides aggregate information such shares, enabling monitor which shares common result that many programs can provide. Thus , to monitor the results achieved , we consider not only those actions strictly Program , but is included vastness of initiatives institutions involved to deliberately recognize and assume their responsibility also shares how his actions with adherence to PBTD . This represents progress towards a truly democratic and participatory management, where the transverse and intersectoral cease to be a speech to carry on the reality.
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It is a challenge the fact that the dynamics of Agenda result in a program where deadlines had to be loosened before the period necessary to articulate and define the strategy of involvement of various institutions to implement the various plans of action, given its own dynamics and to their own schedules. Another obstacle is put in practice the proposed actions in the way set out in the Programme, with the result that such actions are transformed into guidelines to follow. Another obstacle is to consider the expected outcomes that result in a mess ingrained prejudices and historical inequalities and taking reflexes including the proposed economic development model. Considering that these are structural changes, which also involve a change in entrenched prejudices in society, only the medium and long term it will be possible to have a balance on the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposals, however, a space for social dialogue is constant need to give answers to partners, especially those who somehow represent or within one of the target groups of the actions of the Agenda. Another challenge is to monitor the implementation of the Program activities, considering the large number of institutions involved. This challenge is magnified by the complexity of raising and organizing so much information from so many autonomous bodies among themselves. In this regard, several strategies of articulation, mobilization and sensitization of partners, institutional commitment, and all the accompaniments of progress and results need to be in development. Another aspect is to advance the progress reports for implementation of the actions of the Programme of Action Plans now developed through a computerized monitoring system, not aggregate all shares that the institutions involved. Collect and organize so much information, so many sectors of many organs and institutions is an effort that involves continuous awareness and interagency coordination.
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