Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Sudan (Ratification: 1970)

The Committee takes note of the Government's brief report. In its previous comments, the Committee said that it appreciated the difficulties that the country was experiencing in promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment, within the framework of a co-ordinated economic and social policy (Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention). It hopes that the Government's next report will include detailed information on the measures taken or under consideration to declare and pursue an active employment policy and that it will also contain information on the following matters:

1.Please describe the steps taken to establish a labour market information mechanism.

2.Please describe the employment policy objectives and measures defined in the 1988/89-1991/92 Four-Year Development Programme. Please provide available information or estimates indicating to what extent these objectives are being attained.

3.The Committee has been informed that an ILO mission visited Sudan in January 1988 to examine the possibilities of creating employment for university graduates, whose unemployment rate is estimated to be approximately 25 per cent. Please indicate the effect given to the recommendations of the mission, which concerned an action plan for self-employment generation for young graduates in the context of small enterprise development. Please describe, more generally, the measures taken or contemplated to ensure the co-ordination of education and training policies with employment prospects.

4.Part V of the report form. The Committee has also been informed of other technical co-operation projects concerning various areas covered by the Convention (special public works programmes, activities to promote employment for refugees, vocational training for the disabled). It asks the Government to indicate the action undertaken as a result of ILO technical co-operation and to indicate any factors that may have hindered or delayed such action.