Strengthening the Employment and Related Socio-Economic Dimensions in Response to Conflict and Natural Disaster Situations
Annual Call for Projects 2003
Summary
Employment and job creation is becoming an essential ingredient of any crisis response program, a fact that experience has highlighted in many crisis contexts and diverse urgent situations on a world scale. This critical area manifestly requires further research. This project will analyse the employment and related social and economic aspects of armed conflict, socio-economic crises, and natural disasters. It aims to provide a better understanding of the challenges for sustainable development and more equitable social relations, in light of the social disintegration, deterioration of employment and impoverishment that accompany various types of crises. It seeks to create a stronger knowledge base in a field that has been largely neglected, thus allowing for employment issues to be granted greater salience in crisis-related research within the Geneva research community and elsewhere. Furthermore, such research outcomes will go a long way towards sharpening the ILO in its crisis response function and ensuring that all concerned actors - national and international - are able to incorporate the employment and related socio-economic dimensions in their responses to crises.
The grant provided by the GIAN for this project totals SFr 190,000
Project Team
Prof. Daniel Warner , Coordinator, Programme for the Study of International Organization(s) (PSIO) , Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) .
Dr. Jeffery Crisp , Principal Member, Policy Development and Evaluation Service (PDES) , Research/Evaluation , Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) .
Ms Eugenia Date-Bah , Principal Member, International Labour Organisation (ILO) .
Prof. Mohammad-Reza Djalili , Principal Member, Department of International History and Politics , Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) .
Mr Luca Fedi , Principal Member, Programme for the Study of International Organization(s) (PSIO) , Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) .
Ms Alessandra Fioravanti-Levy , Principal Member, School of Translation and Interpreting (ETI) , University of Geneva (Unige) .
Prof. Victor-Yves Ghebali , Principal Member, Department of International History and Politics , Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) .
Mr Paul Hulshoff , Principal Member, Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) , United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) .
Mr Donato Kiniger-Passigli , Principal Member, Crisis Response and Reconstruction (CRISIS) , Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department (EMP/ENTERPRISE) , Employment Sector (EMPLOYMENT) , International Labour Organisation (ILO) .
Dr. Pape Ndiaye Diouf , Principal Member, Programme for the Study of International Organization(s) (PSIO) , Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) .
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Research Output
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Strengthening Employment in Response to Crises, Synthesis Report and Case Studies
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Employment in Response to Crises: An Analytical Report of the Research Project “Strengthening Employment in Response to Crises”
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Guidelines for Employment in Crises
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