ECOSOC has asked all UN agencies and other CEB members to help countries honour their commitment to employment and decent work for all. The ILO has developed the Toolkit to help them do so.
The Partnerships and Development Cooperation Department 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.
24 March 2009 - The Government of Brazil and the International
Labour Office have signed a new Partnership Complementary Agreement on
South-South cooperation, inspired by President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva’s commitment to the support of Latin America and the Caribbean,
African and Asian developing countries’ in their promotion of Decent
Work and Social Justice through peer horizontal cooperation and a
spirit of solidarity between nations.
04 December 2008 - The Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, represented by its ministry in charge of development cooperation, and the ILO have signed a long-term general framework agreement to promote the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda and finance ILO projects and programmes in various countries.
01 December 2008 - The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the ILO have signed two supplementary agreements to promote the ILO’s Decent Work Country Programmes and the Global Labour University in South Africa.