Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Management Action Plan: 89-Management Progress Report

...cash on a weekly basis, based on the amount of cotton harvested. 6. As part of the Decent Work Country Program, ILO is undertaking work to establish whether various forms of employment and labor in a given situation in Uzbekistan constitute forced adult3. This will allow it to adapt its monitoring methodology for forced labor to the specific Uzbek circumstances. The Government, through its Ministry of Labor, has invited the World Bank to participate in this work. Therefore the Bank will b...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Management Action Plan: 89-Second Management Progress Report(English)

...cash earning opportunities outside the agricultural sector are very limited, especially for women. Young male study respondents on the other hand thought that mechanization might open up new job opportunities for them. The PSIA concludes with a series of short- and medium-term recommendations to mitigate the potential negative impacts of cotton mechanization on female agricultural workers, which are currently being discussed with the GoU. IV. CONCLUSION...