Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Suriname (Ratification: 1976)

The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s very brief report for the period September 1998 to September 2000.

Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. The Committee notes that the economy is slowly recovering from a very difficult period, due to hyperinflation, an exchange rate crisis, decreasing real wages, increasing poverty, and a more general deterioration of social dialogue. The Government states that its general goals concerning employment promotion include: creating investment incentives; investing in human resources; fiscal reforms; stabilizing the exchange rate and prices; prioritizing needs of youth, women, people in rural and interior areas; developing a system for announcing job vacancies; and conducting job surveys to ensure training meets market demand. Please provide further information on the principal policies pursued and measures taken to promote employment, as well as disaggregated data on employment trends.

The Committee also notes that the Government has recently undertaken to develop a national poverty eradication strategy, with assistance from the ILO and UNDP, and has held a seminar on poverty issues. Please provide more detailed information on the strategy adopted, progress made in its implementation, and evaluations of the outcome, as requested under Part V of the report form adopted by the Governing Body.

Article 3. The Government states that all institutions at the national level employment promotion advisory bodies are tripartite, including the Labour Advisory Board. Please provide more detailed information on the functioning of these bodies, including how their input is used in shaping employment policy.