Main Objectives:

Strengthen capacities of CTCF and its member tea cooperatives to promote safety and health of women and men workers

Immediate objectives

Immediate Objective 1: Actors in tea cooperatives have improved understanding and address the issues related to OSH and core labour standards, and prevention of gender based violence to initiate sectoral and workplace actions.

Immediate Objective 2: Workplace level improvement are made by tea cooperatives to improve health and safety and prevent violence and harassment at the workplace

Immediate Objective 3: A self-regulatory framework/OSH guideline on promoting OSH and prevention of violence and harassment is adopted and implemented by CTCF and its members

Major Activities

Activity 1.1:

Orientation on OSH, need and function of OSH committee to Executive committee (newly elected or not covered by previous intervention) of selected 25 cooperative and sharing the OSH guideline prepared by CTCF Nepal - 2 orientation workshop (Ilam, Fikkal) to 50 participants for 1 day

Activity 1.2: 

Develop additional signage with local farming info graphics and code of conduct and disseminate at the community and workplace level so garden workers can learn from that through the help of signage (5 types of stickers  500 Copies)

Activity 1.3

 Develop the voluntary OSH inspection team (50 voluntary) from the member cooperatives and organize orientation training on role and responsibility to mobilize at the community level under the supervision of member cooperatives & CTCF (2 Orientation trainings, Ilam bazar-1 Fikkal bazar-1)

Activity 2.1

Follow up visit & coaching to OSH committee for the effective implementation of action plan, improved work place as per the results of checklist walkthrough in 25 selected cooperatives in Ilam, Jhapa, Panchthar, Taplejung and Dhankuta Districts

Activity 2.2

Documentation of the implementation status of the OSH policy, risk assessment, action plan, walkthrough exercise with plan in the 25 selected cooperatives and provide technical support.

Activity 2.3

Developing the standard (in Nepali) format about record keeping, minutes of OSH committee, risk assessment and print and distribute to the cooperative.

Activity 2.4

Conduct refresher training to representative of OSH committee on Occupational Safety and Health and committee functions in Ilam (25 participants for 1 day)

Activity 3.1

Stakeholder meeting with Local governments (Deumai, Suryodaya and Haldibari RM) to share project intervention and way forward. (3 meeting 21 participants for one day)

Activity 3.2

Prepare the simple version of guidelines (main parts) in Nepali language that will help to cooperative to implement guidelines easily (step wise step process) (500 copies in form of leaflets

Activity 3.3

OSH best practices learning and exchange visit in Ilam (Orthodox Tea Factory) and Jhapa (CTC Tea Factory) districts for 25 cooperative representatives (2 days visits)