Partnerships and Field Support
At the same time, development cooperation has come to be understood as more than a mere portfolio of projects funded by voluntary contributions. It is now part of a broader international effort aligned with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, in which the ILO will promote the Decent Work Agenda as a basis for political governance and sustainable social and economic growth.
The ILO Governing Body has endorsed a new Development Cooperation Strategy 2015-17 that embodies a commitment to the promotion of decent work in its entirety, within the framework of the 2030 SDGs, and addresses the challenge to increase and diversify the ILO’s resources and partnerships at the global, national and local level to better serve its constituents.
This involves promotion of the crucial role of tripartism and the design and implementation of development cooperation programmes and projects with the active participation of governments, employers and workers.
Priority is attached to –
- partnering and forging relations with the donor community, the multilateral system, social partners, civil society, the private sector, South-South and triangular cooperation programmes, and other development actors
- furthering and leading where appropriate the multilateral system's development efforts, at all levels
- mobilizing extra-budgetary funding for development cooperation and funds for the Regular Budget Supplementary Account (RBSA), to complement and enhance actions undertaken through the regular budget
- developing public-private partnerships to advance the Decent Work Agenda in support of the SDGs
- coordinating, supporting and overseeing the management of extra-budgetary activities in line with the Development Cooperation Strategy
- ensuring the transparency of information on the ILO’s development cooperation programme and its financing.
In their own words: How the ILO has helped
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Social dialogue
Bargaining In Jordan's Ready Made Garment Sector
In Jordan, migrant workers who were previously not eligible to be members of a trade union are now all represented through an industry-wide collective agreement. The ILO-IFC Better Work programme helped make this change.
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Emergency employment
Lloyd Polinar: Welder in the Philippines
The ILO has supported the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) of the Philippines in creating temporary jobs through “emergency employment programmes” aimed at helping improve living and working conditions for the victims of typhoon Haiyan.
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Skills development
Kickstart: Bangladesh's female motorcycle service mechanics
Skills in Bangladesh are changing. Bangladesh needs skilled workers, so the ILO is making technical and vocational education easier to access for all, improving its quality and directly linking it to jobs. After the trainees graduated, this programme was integrated into the mainstream training offers that now turn young men and women across Bangladesh into motorcycle service mechanics.
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Youth employment
Supporting entrepreneurship through the Youth to Youth Fund in Kenya
The Youth to Youth Fund (Y2YF) component of the Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) gives young women and men a chance to design and implement innovative solutions to employment challenges. The Y2YF is implemented by the ILO and a partner organization in Kenya, the Ustadi Foundation. It has so far given support to 39 organizations and has had 2,058 beneficiaries.
