Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) Convention, 1962 (No. 117) - Madagascar (Ratification: 1964)

Parts I and II of the Convention. Improvement of standards of living. The Committee notes the detailed information contained in the Government’s report for the period ending September 2003. In its comments on the application of Convention No. 122, it noted the adoption of a poverty reduction strategy with the objective of promoting rapid and sustainable development with a view to halving the poverty rate within ten years. The strategy, which is largely based on the public/private partnership principle, aims to create and promote economic growth across the social spectrum and proposes sectoral measures for rural development. In this regard, the Committee requests the Government to continue to supply, in its next report, information on the manner in which the provisions of Convention No. 117 aimed at ensuring that "all policies shall be primarily directed to the well-being and development of the population …" are taken into account when developing and implementing the measures taken in the context of its economic programmes and its poverty reduction strategy.