Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Peru (Ratification: 1967)

The Committee refers to its observation and would be grateful if the Government would provide additional information on the following points in its next report:

1. In its previous comments, the Committee noted the information provided by the Government concerning the employment programmes implemented by the National Planning Institute (People's Cooperation) and the regional development corporations. The Committee notes that new special employment programmes are to be developed in the framework of the Employment Promotion Act. It hopes that the Government will be able to provide information on the generation of productive and lasting employment achieved by the above employment programmes.

2. Please indicate the procedures whereby the experience and views of the beneficiaries of the special employment programmes are taken into account in formulating and implementing employment policy. Please also indicate whether formal consultative procedures have been established for this purpose (Article 3).

3. The Committee refers to the Government's efforts to support the generation of productive employment in the urban informal sector (incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises, micro-enterprises, workers' cooperatives) through measures to promote and provide basic and specialised training. The Committee is aware of the particular problems of the informal sector and that it can make a substantial contribution to employment. It recalls that in its General Survey of 1991, Human resources development, it dealt in detail with the question of the importance of linking technical and occupational education and training with employment prospects. The Committee asks the Government, as it did in point 2 of its direct request of 1991, to provide information on the results of the measures adopted to coordinate education and training policies with prospective employment opportunities (see the report form under Article 1).

4. The Committee takes note of a communication dated 9 September 1991 from the fishermen's unions of Chimbote and Anexos on the situation of unemployed fishermen. It would be grateful if the Government would provide information or make any comments it deems appropriate on the questions raised.

5. Part V of the report form. Please indicate the action undertaken as a result of the advice provided, or the technical cooperation projects on employment executed, by the ILO.