ILO trains Govt, stakeholders on labour data production
THE Government is working with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to provide training to labour market data collectors through a data production workshop.
The workshop will focus on the Labour Market Information System (LMIS) and will help to create a platform for the Zimbabwe Statistics Agency, business, investors, Government and the private sector to use information on the country’s labour system.
This will allow those invested in Zimbabwe’s economy to have a clearer understanding of the growth and employment situation in the country, allowing them to make better informed decisions.
The ILO is building capacity within Zimbabwe in line with international standards, including developing a labour market information system that will provide stakeholders with a better understanding of the market and underpin policy development and delivery.
The Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare’s chief researcher and economic officer, Timothy Mudakureva, said the data workshop would help investors, Government and the private sector to track growth in Zimbabwe’s labour system. LMIS helps labour to communicate with one voice from one platform to be used by the Zimbabwe Statistics Agency, business, investors, Government and the private sector.
“Data from this workshop will be distributed to the Ministry of Labour and other sectors can access it and use it to inform of their policies,” he said.
“For example, there are different rates on the child labour rate in Zimbabwe. Some sectors say it’s 10 percent and others say it’s 20 percent, so we want to create a labour market information system to come up with the same figures,” he said.
IOL expert, Maya Payet, who is facilitating the workshop, said it will bring labour market indications in one plate to give policy makers tools to comprehend and evaluate the situation and make informed decisions about the labour market based on data.
“The LMIS is a key system that is necessary in a labour market so that stakeholders can monitor policies, United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and decent work-related policies through which we will be able to inform policy development and implementation on behalf of labour stakeholders,” she said.