Introduction of the EIIP Afghanistan Project

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The Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) Afghanistan is one of the four pillars of the ILO’s crisis response. EIIP Afghanistan project is funded by the Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan (STFA) and being implemented by the ILO as an intervention for Promoting Employment and Decent Work through the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus project. The programme seeks at providing much needed employment to vulnerable groups including host communities, internally displaced people, women, and people with disabilities through rehabilitation and maintenance of critical community infrastructure. The project utilizes Local Resource Based (LRB) approach with focus on capacity development interventions for stakeholders at all stages. The ILO is the United Nations

specialised agency for the world of work, bringing together its tripartite constituents (governments, employers, and workers) for social dialogue and consensus building, to drive a human-centred approach to the future of work through employment creation, rights at work and social protection. The ILO’s Decent Work Agenda promotes social justice and human rights at work through adhering to and advocating for international labour standards, advancing equality including gender equality, strengthening freedom of association, and supporting social dialogue.

EIIP project has the following three main outputs:

Output 1

Immediate decent jobs with poverty reducing income for workers by providing large number of short-term employment opportunities that increases household incomes and decent work for workers and their families.

Output 2

Public assets rehabilitated and maintained providing long term and visible improvements in access to basic social services, cultural and economic activities

Output 3

Improved capacity of contractors and Implementing Partners and Officials to implement and manage rural infrastructure work

Core Activities of EIIP Project:

1. Engagement with local authorities, communities, partners.
2. development of operational procedures, guidelines, and training materials..
3. Selection and shortlisting of prioritized infrastructure projects.
4. Pre-qualification of Contractors.
5. Project Design, Estimates, Documents, Procurement.
6. Implementation of Capacity development plan including training needs assessment, training of local contractors, field officers, and conducting awareness and capacity development activities.
7. Conducting baseline studies and traffic counts.
8. Engagement at local level with communities (include potential workers), contractors and authorities.
9. Recruitment including selection of beneficiaries as per criteria targeting vulnerable families, women and PWD.
10. Conducting trainings of selected contractors, and workers.
11. Supervision to ensure compliance regarding technical specs, ESSF, and OSH.
12. Monitoring activities of employment targets, evaluations, surveys and impact studies and dissemination of lessons learned.
13. Project communication and visibility activities.

What makes EIIP different from other projects

EIIP distinguishes itself from Cash for Work and other Infrastructure projects through strategic identification and implementation of the works, focus on assets creation, collaboration with partners, innovation, capacity-building, decent and productive employment with linkages to livelihoods, documentation, communication, and dissemination of the outputs.