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1. Consultation mechanisms and tripartite consultation required by the Convention. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in March 2006, which contains certain indications in response to its previous comments. The Committee also acknowledges the national plan for the implementation of the African Union Plan of Action for the Promotion of Employment and Poverty Alleviation, published by the Ministry of the Public Service, Labour and Employment of Chad in June 2005. The Committee notes with interest that one of the national plan’s objectives is to promote social dialogue and tripartism. In Chad, social dialogue, in the form of a permanent consultation process with the social partners on problems relating to labour in the broadest sense of the term, has been institutionalized, but is inadequate in certain ways, mainly due to the weakness of the institutions set up for this purpose. In order to improve social dialogue, the national plan envisages providing these institutions with operating resources and reinforcing the capacity of the social partners through the provision of training and information. The Committee also notes that the social dialogue institutions – particularly the High Committee for Labour, Employment and Social Security – had been indicated by the Government in its previous reports as being in charge of the tripartite consultations required by the Convention. The Committee hopes that the Government will provide information in its next report on any progress that is made in reinforcing social dialogue institutions with a view to ensuring that the consultations held between representatives of the Government, employers and workers, on all the issues set forth in Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Convention, are effective within the meaning of Article 2, paragraph 1.

2. Administrative support and training. The Committee notes that the Government indicates in its report that, under section 15 of Decree No. 184 of 16 April 2002, the operating costs of the permanent secretariat of the High Committee for Labour and Social Security rest with the State and are covered by the State budget. The Committee notes that, by virtue of section 2 of the Order of 3 May 2000, the main task of the national committee responsible for monitoring social dialogue in Chad is to make proposals concerning the continued training of the social partners and of the administration. The Committee invites the Government to describe all the arrangements made for the financing of any necessary training of participants in consultative procedures (Article 4, paragraph 2).

3. Issuing of annual reports on the working of the procedures. The Committee notes that, under the terms of section 13, paragraph 1, of Decree No. 184 of 16 April 2002, minutes are prepared for each session of the High Committee for Labour and Social Security. The Committee asks the Government to indicate whether an annual report on the working of the procedures provided for in the Convention is issued or envisaged and, if not, to give particulars on the consultations that have taken place with the representative organizations on this question (Article 6).