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Partnerships and Development Cooperation

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The ILO promotes decent work for all as a global goal by –

  • developing and strengthening partnerships and relations with agencies of the multilateral system, the donor community and other external development actors
  • contributing to active ILO involvement in multilateral system coordination and United Nations reform processes at all levels
  • mobilizing extra-budgetary funding for technical cooperation and funds for the Regular Budget Supplementary Account (RBSA), to complement and enhance action undertaken through the regular budget to fulfil the DWA
  • developing ILO technical cooperation policy and coordinating, supporting and overseeing the management of extra-budgetary technical cooperation activities
  • providing full and appropriate information services on the ILO’s technical cooperation programme and its financing, and on external relations.
The Development Cooperation Branch (CODEV) is responsible for resource mobilization and the management and administration of technical cooperation activities.
The External Relations and Partnerships Branch (EXREL) is responsible for partnerships and relations with other international and regional organizations, UN system-wide coherence issues, and relations with civil society and other external partners such as parliamentarians, NGOs, faith-based organizations and academic institutions.
PARDEV works closely with the ILO Office for the United Nations in New York (ILONY), which is responsible for liaison with the multilateral system in New York.

News

  1. Crisis response

    After the storm: rebuilding livelihoods in the Philippines

    ILO crisis response to tropical storm Washi

  2. Partnerships

    Norway and Sweden sign new Partnership Cooperation Agreements with the ILO

    1. Norway and ILO sign new Partnership Cooperation Agreement for 2012-15
    2. Sweden commits to further support for ILO technical cooperation

  3. Civil society

    Convergences: Decent work and social justice in religious traditions – A handbook

    This handbook demonstrates that in different religions and spiritual traditions there is great convergence of values on the subject of work.

Partnerships

  1. MasterCard Foundation pledges US$14.6 million to Partnership with the ILO Youth Employment Programme

    New partnership will increase the global awareness of the challenges facing youth as they move from education to the world of work.

    1. ILO Youth Employment Network

  2. ILO and chocolate and cocoa industry: new partnership to combat child labour in West Africa

    Eight companies in the chocolate and cocoa industry – ADM, Barry Callebaut, Cargill, Ferrero, The Hershey Company, Kraft Foods, Mars, Incorporated, and Nestlé – have pledged US $2 million to a new Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with the International Labour Office (ILO) to combat child labour in cocoa growing communities in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

  3. ILO and British Petroleum (BP) sign new Public-private Partnership in Indonesia to promote employability and entrepreneurship

Key recent policy events and documents

  1. Global Employment Trends: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis, ILO, Jan 2012
  2. Fourth High-level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Busan, Nov-Dec 2011
  3. Global Employment Trends for Youth: 2011 Update
  4. Short-term employment and labour market outlook and key challenges in G20 countries: A statistical update for the G20 Meeting of Labour and Employment Ministers (ILO and OECD) Paris, 26–27 September 2011
  5. Promoting policy coherence for decent work and full, productive employment: A policy note for the G20 Meeting of Labour and Employment Ministers Paris, 26–27 September 2011
  6. Joint Statement for G20 Labour Ministerial by ILO Director-General Juan Somavia and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría
  7. World of Work Report 2011- ILO says world heading for a new and deeper jobs recession, warns of more social unrest
  8. Global Wage Report 2010/11: Wage policies in times of crisis
  9. Review of progress on the MDGs by the UN General Assembly, September 2010

  1. New publication

    The ILO at Work: Development Results 2010-2011

    This review of the ILO's work in 2010-11 describes the scope and purpose of the ILO's development cooperation to promote the Decent Work Agenda under its four pillars of employment, social protection, social dialogue and fundamental principles and rights at work.

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  1. ILO involvement in multilateral development events and activities

    Covers IMF Spring meetings, Rio+20, ECOSOC, CEB, Delivering as One and joint Un programmes, and the QCPR.

    Read the note

  2. The Arab World: Towards a new era of social justice

    Update: April 2012

  3. European Union supports new ILO project to promote job creation and local economic development in five marginalized provinces of Tunisia

    Read more

  4. ILO Governing Body, March 2012

    1. Regional perspectives on technical cooperation: The African region
    2. South-South and triangular cooperation: The way forward sets out ILO strategy on South–South and triangular cooperation.

  5. Publications

    1. The ILO – Value for Money: The value added by the ILO's approach to development results

  6. Partnerships

    1. IGAD and ILO sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Employment for Peace in the Horn of Africa
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