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

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Ecuador (Ratification: 1988)

The Committee has noted with interest the information supplied by the Governent in its first report on the application of the Convention. It would be grateful if the Government would provide, in its next report, additional information on the following points:

Article 5 of the Convention. The Committee has noted the information on the activities of the organisations of disabled persons and on their cooperation with the governmental bodies. Please refer to the first part of this Article and describe the manner in which representative employers' and workers' organisations are consulted on the implementation of the policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons.

Article 7. Please continue to supply information, in the next reports, on the arrangements made to give fuller effect, in practice, to the provisions of this Article.

Point V of the report form. Please provide a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in your country, including for example statistics (if available), extracts from reports, studies and inquiries, concerning the matters covered by the Convention (for example, with respect to particular areas or branches of activity or particular categories of disabled workers).