Design elements

When Better Work designs a country programme it must gather support from the relevant employers’ and workers’ organizations, the national government and international buyers. IFC and ILO require this support in order to ensure the success and sustainability of the project.

Country projects typically combine:

• enterprise assessments (a) of compliance with core international labour standards and national labour law and (b) quality and productivity performance;
  
• enterprise advisory and training services to support practical improvements through workplace cooperation; and
  
• stakeholder engagement and sustainability.
  

Each country programme will be designed to build sustainable independent organizations that will continue to provide services beyond the initial funding period. This means that within five years the projects are expected to become self-financing.

Better Work programmes are industry-based schemes providing services at the enterprise level. They are designed to work closely with existing IFC and ILO initiatives, particularly those focusing on capacity building in the private sector or in public sector labour administration, as well as projects for employers’ and workers’ organizations.