Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Guinea (Ratification: 1966)

1. The Committee notes the Government's report and the information supplied in reply to its previous direct request. The Government indicates in its report that the recovery programme for the public and semi-public sectors that was introduced in April 1984 gives no prospect of a substantial improvement in the employment market in the short term. According to the Government, opportunities for job creation depend upon the success of the policies of privatisation and development of the agricultural sector. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would include information in its next report on the national recovery programme for 1987-90, and particularly the employment objectives that have been set out and the extent to which they are being attained, the specific difficulties encountered and the extent to which they have been overcome (Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention).

2. With reference to its previous direct request, the Committee requests the Government to continue supplying detailed information on the staff reductions that have been made in the public and semi-public sectors, which should amount to a total of 20 per cent according to the objectives set out by the Government. Please specify the effect on the creation of productive employment of the measures taken by the Office for Assisting the Retraining of Public Officials (BARAF) and by the Office for the Promotion of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (ONPPME).

3. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would include in its next report the information requested previously on the measures taken to promote rural employment, including a copy of Decree No. 079/PRG/86, of 25 March 1986 to institute a new territorial organisation of the Republic of Guinea. It also requests the Government to supply information on the effect that it has been able to give to the ILO advisory mission concerning the promotion of handicrafts within the context of the integrated rural development programme for Fouta-Djallon.

4. In its previous reports, the Government indicated that high labour-intensive public works programmes were being re-examined. The Committee notes that a technical assistance project is under preparation in this respect and requests the Government to supply information on any developments in this connection.

5. The Committee notes the activities of the National Vocational Training and Further Training Office. It requests the Government to supply details on the measures that have been taken or are envisaged for the co-ordination of education and training policies with employment prospects. Please, in particular, supply information on the problems that may be encountered by young graduates who come onto the employment market, and the measures taken in this respect, in the context of the withdrawal of the State from the public and semi-public sectors.

6. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply information on the consultation of the representatives of the various persons affected by employment policy, including persons employed in the rural sector and in the informal, or unstructured, sector (Article 3).

7. The Committee notes with interest the information supplied by the Government concerning the technical assistance provided by the ILO through the JASPA Office in Addis-Ababa, particularly regarding the survey carried out on the unstructured sector in four large cities, and the survey on apprenticeship in Conakry. Please supply, in general, information on the steps taken to follow up the technical co-operation projects and the factors which may have prevented or delayed such action (Part V of the report form).

8. The Committee also hopes that the Government will be able to supply in future reports the available information referred to in Part VI of the report form.