Deadline: 10-Jun-22
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is offering grants to:
- conduct a desk-based regulatory, policy and legal analysis across the eight PROSPECTS countries on the digital economy with a focus on the gig or digital platform economy, digital risks and labour market inclusion.
- conceptualize and coordinate a background paper to be discussed in a multi-stakeholder Global Forum in Africa.
The Opportunity Fund objective is to improve the working conditions of forcibly displaced people and their hosting communities on digital labour platforms, and mitigating associated digital risks, while working towards conducive and inclusive national and local employment strategies in an increasingly digitalized labour market.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) together with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) are responding to this challenge through a joint project on the “Promotion, Inclusion and Protection of Refugees in the Gig Economy: Realizing rights at work and mitigating digital risk”, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs through its ‘PROSPECTS Opportunity Fund’. The project has an 18-month time horizon (2022-2023).
This Opportunity Fund project will complement and provide added value to both the current and upcoming PROSPECTS country and global level programming and will link to broader global efforts to promote fair digital livelihoods and safely engage refugees and host communities in the gig economy.
Objectives
- Regulatory, policy and legal analysis across PROSPECTS countries on digital risks.
- A global forum in Africa in partnership with relevant platform companies, gig workers and their associations and governments, to advocate for and enable access to better quality employment, and inclusion of forcibly displaced on digital labour platforms.
- Development of employment strategies for more and better jobs that promote inclusion and protection in the gig economy will be supported.
Outcomes
This objective will be achieved through three main outcome areas:
- Policy solutions developed to promote employment opportunities, improve rights at work and mitigate risks for digital workers;
- Enhancing capacity through tool development and technical guidance;
- New models for safe, secure refugee inclusive digital platform work or digital-enabled livelihoods are tested, documented, and put on a pathway to scale.
Duration: All assignment’s deliverables are expected to be delivered to the satisfaction of the ILO not later than 30 November 2023.
PROSPECTS Countries: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Sudan and Uganda.
Eligibility Criteria
- At least 5 years of experience and expertise in a relevant field, i.e., local governance, employment inclusion of refugees and host communities, digital platform work and the gig economy, legislative and policy review.
- Have good knowledge of the PROSPECTS countries and the existing challenges and opportunities for the inclusion of refugees and host communities in the gig economy. As well as good understanding of community development fieldwork and local cultures and traditions.
- Proven skills and knowledge for the development of the objectives of the consultancy, including in field studies such as law, political sciences, sociology or another relevant field.
- The implementing partner’s designated expert is expected to participate in the 2023 Global Forum online or in person at the venue, if travelling conditions due to COVID-19 allows for it.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Proficiency in Arabic is desirable given the nature of this research.
For more information, visit https://www.ilo.org/global/programmes-and-projects/prospects/media-centre/WCMS_846269/lang–en/index.htm