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SAW-A Project

Setting adequate wages - a focus on agriculture

Project details

Duration

15 December 2023 - 31 January 2028

Development partner(s)

German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Reference

GLO/23/30/DEU

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About SAW-A project

This project promotes the setting of adequate wages, including through minimum wages and collective bargaining, in agriculture in Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire, and Ethiopia, and provides technical assistance on the question of living wages. Its objective is to enable decent living standards for workers and their families, while ensuring the economic sustainability of enterprises. Since many workers in agriculture do not earn wages but cover their needs by selling goods and services on the market, the project also explores the concept of living incomes. Notably, the project explores how demand for more sustainable products and trading practices can be a lever for higher wages and labour incomes.

The project has the following stakeholders and target groups:

Ministries of Labour and Agriculture
Employers’ and workers’ organisations,
Selected enterprises, including cooperatives and other famer organisations, and
Tripartite minimum wage commissions or tripartite social dialogue institutions will be direct project beneficiaries.
Workers in the agricultural sector, many of whom are women, will be indirect beneficiaries.
Supply chains actors will be engaged and will benefit from information and tools that help promote adequate wages and incomes in the agricultural sector.

Strategic framework

Supporting evidence-based approaches to set adequate wages, particularly for agricultural workers.

Intervention results:

1.1. Minimum wage setting is based on relevant indicators of the needs of workers and their families and economic factors.

1.2. Social partners use information, including indicators of the needs of workers and their families and economic factors, for meaningful and informed collective bargaining of wages.

1.3. Improved compliance with minimum wages and bargained wages is promoted.
Supporting selected enterprises in increasing their capacity to pay higher wages, and independent workers in increasing their capacity to earn higher incomes.

Intervention results:

2.1 Economic factors, including productivity, are improved in selected enterprises and among groups of independent workers in agricultural supply chains.

2.2 Governments, employers and workers’ organizations have a better understanding of the macro factors and institutions that support and enable rising wages and labour incomes.
Supporting living wage and living income initiatives to centre around social dialogue and collective bargaining, taking into account the needs of workers and their families as well as economic factors.

Intervention results:

3.1. International and national living wage and living income initiatives are informed about the needs of workers and their families, and combine this with an understanding of economic factors in wage determination.

3.2. Governments, social partners, and other stakeholders are provided with evidence-based tools and global products on how to promote wages and incomes that enable workers in the agricultural sector to afford a decent living standard.

It is a map of the world showing in blue which countries are covered by the SAW-A project. They are: Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ethiopia

This project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the International Labour Organization (ILO).