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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.

Partnerships

  1. Netherlands agrees new funding

    Second phase of the Netherlands-ILO Partnership Programme

    Agreement will cover next two years

  2. Technical Cooperation

    Norway and Sweden sign new Partnership Agreements with the ILO

    1. Norway
    2. Sweden

  3. Public-Private Partnership

    ILO and British Petroleum agree new partnership

    The new agreement will help promote employability and entrepreneurship in Indonesia

  4. South-South

    China and ILO sign South-South cooperation agreement

    China and the ILO have signed a US$1 million partnership agreement to promote technical cooperation with a focus on South-South Initiatives.

  5. Public-Private Partnership

    ILO and chocolate and cocoa industry agree 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.

  6. South-South

    New India-Brazil-South Africa Declaration on South-South cooperation for decent work

    IBSA Ministers reaffirm commitment to the promotion of decent work through South-South cooperation in Joint Ministerial Declaration.

  7. Public-Private Partnership

    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

News

  1. Post-2015 development goals

    Setting the development agenda: It’s all about jobs and livelihoods

    As the debate on the post-Millennium Development Goals agenda gathers pace, the ILO says the most pressing priorities are job creation and social protection.

    1. ILO Concept Note on the post-2015 development agenda
    2. Follow the ongoing consultation on growth and employment in the post-2015 Development Agenda and its related e-consultations at the World We Want 2015 website. Leading experts, workers, private sector and labour practitioners and policy makers, civil society, academia and think tanks from around the world met in Tokyo to launch the consultations on the technical and political work needed to shape the post-2015 development agenda on growth and emplopyment.
    3. ILO PARDEV Newsletter No 34: The Post-2015 Development Agenda

  1. Child labour

    Netherlands and ILO cooperate to eliminate child labour in agriculture

    Netherlands to finance project to eliminate child labour in agriculture in Turkey

  2. Global Entrepreneurship Week

    Women’s Empowerment through Entrepreneurship

    The UN community (involving UNITAR, UNCTAD, WIPO, ITC, UNDP and ILO) with the missions of Ireland, Mexico and the United States to the UN, organized a special event on 14 November on women's entrepreneurship.

  3. New agreement

    UCGL and ILO sign cooperation agreement

    The World Organization of United Cities and Local Government (UCGL) and the lLO sign new cooperation agreement.

  4. Faith-based organizations

    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.

Key recent policy events and documents

  1. ILO Note to the G20 Task Force on Employment reviews latest available data on youth employment in G20 countries and makes suggestions for issues the G20 Task Force might address. (October 2012)
  2. Boosting jobs and living standards in G20 countries: A joint report by the ILO, OECD, IMF and the World Bank (June 2012)
  3. Short-term labour market outlook and key challenges in G20 countries: Statistical update prepared by the ILO and the OECD for the Meeting of G20 Labour and Employment Ministers Guadalajara, 17–18 May 2012.
  4. Sustainable development, green growth and quality employment: 'Realizing the potential for mutually reinforcing policies': Background paper prepared by the ILO and the OECD for the Meeting of G20 Labour and Employment Ministers Guadalajara, 17–18 May 2012.
  5. ILO interventions at UNCTAD XIII Ministerial Conference (Doha, April 2012)
  6. Global Employment Trends: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis, ILO, Jan 2012
  7. Fourth High-level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Busan, Nov-Dec 2011
  8. Global Employment Trends for Youth: 2011 Update
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Joint Statement for G20 Labour Ministerial by ILO Director-General Juan Somavia and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría
  12. DG Somavia’s statement at LDC-IV (Istanbul, 2011) session on “Development of Productive Capacities and Trade: the Key to Inclusive and Sustainable Growth”
  13. World of Work Report 2011- ILO says world heading for a new and deeper jobs recession, warns of more social unrest
  14. Global Wage Report 2010/11: Wage policies in times of crisis
  15. Review of progress on the MDGs by the UN General Assembly, September 2010

  1. Post 2015 Development Agenda

    ILO statement to the briefing on growth and employment, New York, 13 December 2012

    An assessment of the current outlook, policy requirements, and priorities for action.

  2. ILO, Russian Federation sign key agreements

    The ILO and the Russian Federation have launched a new and strategic era of cooperation with the signing of three key agreements.

    The agreements, signed at the International High-Level Conference on Decent Work, aim at further promoting decent work, helping developing countries improve delivery of skills for employment, and promote youth employment through a partnership agreement with Russian oil giant Lukoil.

    1. See the press release on the outcome of the Conference.

  3. US$2.5 million to improve labour migration governance in the Middle East

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation funds ILO initiative to improve working conditions for migrants in the Middle East.

    The project, the first of its kind in the region, targets policy reform on labour migration, strengthened service delivery to migrant workers, and improved capacity to respond to cases of forced labour and trafficking.

  4. Financing for youth employment in Togo

    Germany contributes €650,000 to the Youth Employment Network.

    Contribution will fund a round of the Youth to Youth Fund (Y2Y Fund) in Togo for the period 2013-2014.

  5. New contribution to migrant project

    Czech Republic donates US$75,000 to ILO project on return migrants in Moldova

    The Government of the Czech Republic will contribute CZK 1.5 million (approximately US$ 75,000) to an ILO project on the return of migrants and home country socio-economic development over the next year.

  6. Skills and entrepreneurship for youth in Yemen

    Norway to give US$800,000 to ILO project in coming year

    Project will provide support to skills training providers to improve their services, to trade unions and employers on how to better engage in policy dialogue, and to young women and men on entrepreneurship, as well as assist them in starting their own business.

  7. New donation to core resources

    Denmark makes DKK40 million contribution to the ILO

    The Government of Denmark will contribute DKK 40 million (approximately US$ 7.1 million) in flexible and predictable resources to the ILO Regular Budget Supplementary Account (RBSA).
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