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The Vision Zero Fund has reached over 6,000 workers and employers (58 per cent women) in nearly all States and Regions with prevention and mitigation training since the start of the pandemic in 2020. The ILO in Myanmar is also continuing its efforts in preventing and mitigating COVID-19. It supports Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 that aims to achieve safe and secure working environments for all workers by 2030. “SAFEDAY” plays a crucial role globally in advocacy and awareness raising, two critical tools in raising the profile and importance of Occupational Safety and Health. Additionally, there’s some 360 million non-fatal occupational accidents each year.
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More than 1.5 million of these deaths were the result of non-communicable diseases developed from working conditions. The ILO estimates that some 2.9 million women and men around the world succumb to occupational accidents or work-related diseases every year. “OSH management is an essential component of building resilience in workplaces to withstand the multiple crises affecting economic livelihoods in Myanmar including COVID-19 as well as the impact of the military takeover” – says Donglin Li, ILO Liaison Officer and Representative in Myanmar. The campaign includes a Facebook page on accident and injury prevention at the workplace, events and discussions with workers and employers organizations, and training on COVID-19 prevention and mitigation as well as mental health awareness. This year’s campaign focuses on how OSH management can build resilience in workplaces to respond to public health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and highlights the important role of workers and employers to implement change. The campaign “ Let's make the workplace safe and healthy together ” aims to raise awareness about Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) among workers and employers on behaviours and measures that can prevent workplace accidents, injuries, illnesses and diseases. ILO Yangon - Today in marking the World Day for Safety and Health at Work (SAFEDAY), the ILO has launched an information campaign, aimed at preventing work-related injuries and deaths. It is important to understand the real-time social and economic impacts of COVID-19 and the military coup, not just for measures of income poverty but also for vulnerability more generally and for how the double crisis is impacting Myanmar’s women both at the family and individual levels. The Women living under the pandemic and military rule survey looks at the way that women are affected by macro developments and trends. This complements datasets already held by both organizations, supports analysis to highlight the gendered nature of the pandemic and coup and provides a solid foundation for designing gender-sensitive interventions. This alliance has generated much-needed data on the impact of the twin crises on women. UNDP and UN Women brought their complementary mandates and capacities together to conduct this study.
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They are scared to leave their homes and the peace, political and economic rights they enjoyed for a decade are rapidly disappearing. Women are starting to see their future disappear before their eyes. One year after the military takeover, it is difficult to foresee any rapid improvement in the divisive course of events in Myanmar.