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Introducing the CEB Toolkit for Mainstreaming Employment and Decent Work

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.

The Development Cooperation Branch (CODEV) is responsible for resource mobilization and technical cooperation activities.
The External Relations and Partnerships Branch (EXREL) is responsible for partnerships and relations with other organizations, UN reform and the implementation of the Decent Work Toolkit project.
PARDEV works closely with the ILO Office for the United Nations in New York (ILO-NY), which is responsible for liaison with the multilateral system in New York.

Recent events

Key policy events and documents

Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus
(Doha, Qatar, 29 November-2 December 2008)
Triennial Comprehensive Policy Review (TCPR) (UN General Assembly, 12/2007)
High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals (25 September, 2008)
Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (Accra, 2-4 September 2008)
1. Accra Agenda for Action
2. Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005)

Recent key publications

Forthcoming events

Commission for Social Development, (New York, 4-13 February 2009)
Priority theme: Social integration

In this section

Newsletter

The third issue of Partnering for Decent Work focuses on the work of this year's International Labour Conference, and in particular the Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis. [PDF, 140kB]

ILO/Brazil Multi-annual Partnership Agreement 2009-2011 signed

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.

ILO and Luxembourg sign long-term cooperation agreement

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.

ILO and Germany sign two supplementary agreements

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.