The ILO and the international community

International Policy Group (IPG)

The International Policy Group (IPG) provides backstopping for the ILO’s dialogue with the international economic and financial community and the international system as a whole.  It articulates and promotes the ILO’s mandate for a social dimension to development, including the responsibility to promote full employment and decent work while respecting fundamental principles and rights at work. The specific functions of the IPG are –

• to develop an integrated framework for economic and social policy at the international level, in conjunction with other organizations of the UN system and the international system as a whole, on the basis of contributions from all sectors of the ILO;
• to monitor major economic and social developments of relevance to the ILO’s work, with a view to identifying situations where ILO expertise and values need to be deployed;
• to prepare ILO policy statements on international economic policy issues, in support of ILO participation in relevant international meetings.

The IPG conducts ongoing research and analysis, develops ILO policy approaches and works with the guidance of a cross-sectoral Advisory Committee on International Policy (ACIP).  The goal is to influence policy positions in the international debate that are crucial in making decent work viable and operational at the national level.