Tomas Stenstrom

Mr. Tomas Stenstrom is the Senior Specialist on Employment Intensive Investments (EIIP) for South Asia, based in the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team (DWT) in New Delhi. EIIP supports ILO member States in the design, formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies and programmes aiming to address unemployment and underemployment through public investment, typically in infrastructure development. EIIP reinforces and builds institutional and operational capacity to provide productive and decent work that has an economic, environmental and social impact. Stenstrom joined the ILO in 1997 providing advisory support, information services and training on employment intensive investment strategies to projects and governments in Southern and Eastern Africa. Following more than 10 years in Africa Stenstrom moved to Timor-Leste where he held several senior positions with the ILO, including Chief Technical Advisor for a large EIIP project. Before joining the DWT, he was the Chief Technical Advisor for EIIP Lebanon, ILO’s flagship programme in Lebanon in response to the Syrian refugee crisis. Stenstrom has a Master of Science (MSc) in Civil Engineering from the University of Lund in Sweden.

Tomas will present the Environmental and Social Safeguard framework (ESSF) that has been adopted by the ILO EIIP projects in different countries as an important contractual tool in contracting SMEs for labour based public works.