A Regional Tripartite CARICOM/ILO Meeting on LMI

1. A Regional Tripartite CARICOM/ILO Meeting on LMI

2. Background • Persistent issues that need to be resolved • Data sources • Analysis and use • Dissemination • Assistance programmes Lessons learned • New Challenges and demands for Labour Statistics • CSME …evolving regional labour market • EPA • Integrating Labour Stat programme with the overall development of statistics

3. Outcomes • LM is properly planned and sufficiently integrated into the government budget • Reliable and affordable data sources for LMI are firmly established to produce LMI with a specified periodicity • A LMI dissemination is established that enables policy makers and the public to use LMI for policy and action

4. Output • LMI strategy and three year Action Plan for the English and Dutch Caribbean • Integrated into: • National Government Budgets • Regional Statistical Work Programme • Tripartite support • Backing from the International Donor community • Context: Decent Work country strategies and the Regional Integration process

5. Focus • Agencies: NSO; DoL; NIS; Min Agriculture • Stakeholders Employers, Trade Unions, Government Policy makers • Basic data sources: • LFS • Wage survey (where necessary combined with the NA survey) • Administrative records (NIS, DoL) • Min Agriculture ongoing surveillance • Statistical infra-structure; classifications, sample frames, interagency collaboration • Funding

6. Participants • Users and producers of LMI • Regional, International organisations and funding agencies. • National delegates: NSOs, MoLs, Min responsible for (macro-economic) Planning, NTA’s (TVET), NIS, PEA, PES, Trade Unions, Employers’ Organisations and private and public research institutions

7. Time line • Initial target October 2008 • Limited time for preparation • High level support for the meeting

8. Preparatory work group • Background paper • A programme • Draft outline for the strategy • Links with the overall Statistical Strategy