Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2025, publiée 114ème session CIT (2026)

Convention (n° 117) sur la politique sociale (objectifs et normes de base), 1962 - Bolivie (État plurinational de) (Ratification: 1977)

Article 4. Increase in productive capacity and improvement of standards of living of agricultural producers. The Government indicates that different measures have been implemented in the agricultural sector, including: (1) under Act No. 3545 of 28 November 2006 on the continuation of the agrarian reform, amending Act No. 1715 of 18 October 1996, the process of the review and titularization of ownership of rural land has been consolidated with a view to giving greater legal security to those who work the land and ensure food security; (2) under Act No. 144 of 26 June 2011 on the productive community agricultural revolution, the “Pachamama” universal agricultural insurance scheme was established and, by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 942 of 2 August 2011, as amended by Presidential Decrees Nos 4049 of 25 September 2019 and 4591 of 26 September 2021, the “MINKA” agricultural insurance scheme was created to cover the means of subsistence of family agricultural producers affected by frozen conditions, flooding, drought and hailstorms; (3) production programmes to ensure food security and import substitution, such as the support programmes for the production and sale of market garden produce, root vegetables, pineapples, bananas, Andean grain, honey, cattle, fish and aquaculture produce and the development of urban agriculture. Other productive projects have also been undertaken to strengthen productive capacities in the agricultural sector, such as the Indigenous Development Fund, the Pro-Camélidos programme and the Our well and Drought Plan (Nuestro Pozo y Plan de Sequía) project. The Committee requests the Government to continue providing detailed and updated information on the measures adopted with a view to improving the system of land titles, increasing productive capacity and improving the standards of living of agricultural producers, and their results.

Part IV. Remuneration of workers. The Government refers to the various types of credits that are available for the productive sector in the country. It indicates that Presidential Decree No. 2055 of 9 July 2014 establishes in section 5 the maximum interest rates that financial intermediaries can apply to loans to the productive sector. The Committee notes that the Government has not replied to the comments relating to the measures adopted to encourage voluntary forms of thrift and protect against usury. The Committee also notes the public notice issuing information on the Bill on loan providers submitted to the Chamber of Deputies on 29 January 2021 (CITE:ALP/CD/AGCM/No.91/2019–2020), which seeks to amend the Penal Code with a view to penalizing abuse in the granting of loans by non-banking entities. The Committee therefore once again requests the Government to indicate the measures adopted to encourage wage earners and independent producers to engage in one of the voluntary forms of thrift envisaged by the Convention. It also reiterates its request to the Government to provide specific and detailed information on the measures adopted to protect wage earners and independent producers against usury, and particularly to specify the measures adopted to reduce loan interest rates by supervising the operations of lenders and increasing facilities for obtaining loans for appropriate purposes through cooperative credit unions and institutions subject to the supervision of the competent authority.

Part VI. Vocational education and training. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government on the results of: (1) the “Bolivia C-reActiva” competition 2021, the objective of which was the incorporation of micro and small enterprise (MSE) production units and craftworkers into the digital market; and (2) the “Bolivia C-reActiva” productive technical support programme 2022–23, with the objective of contributing to increasing the productivity and income of MSEs and craftworkers through the implementation of production and sales management tools. The Committee requests the Government to continue providing detailed and updated information on the measures adopted for the progressive development of broad systems of education, vocational training and apprenticeship, and the manner in which training in new production techniques has been organized as part of the policy that gives effect to the Convention (Articles 15 and 16).