ILO green jobs project

Ramani KANGARAARACHCHI

The International Labour organisation (ILO) will consider all jobs that are found in the municipal solid waste management sector as Green Jobs under the Green Jobs Project.

This will include compliance to minimum labour and environmental standards in principle. ILO Country Director Donglin Lee said at a seminar on Value Chain Development programme on Compost and Plastic sector in Western Province stakeholders at Taj Samudra Hotel Colombo on Friday.

Green Jobs in Asia project aims to address the issue , in turning less decent unsafe, environmentally unfriendly jobs into productive green jobs and ensuing that both the decent work aspects that respect the rights of the workers and address environmental issues are properly focused upon in a mutually supportive manner with close collaboration of the Sri Lankan government and relevant parties including the ILO.

This will mark a technical milestone in the ILO/AUSTRALIA PARTNERSHIP GREEN JOBS IN ASIA PROJECT, SRI LANKA CHAPTER he said .

The Western Province of Sri Lanka alone generates around 60 percent (4200 MT) of the 7,000 MTs of the total quantity of solid waste generated per day in the country. There are various strategies and initiatives underway to improve solid waste management and support local authorities through improved regulatory frame work. The ILO will add value to these initiatives by providing technical and value chain analysis and follow up interventions to solid waste management sector.