This report recognizes the generous and strategic
contributions the ILO has received from a growing number of Member States and donors over the years. It summarizes the results achieved in 2008-09, with a special focus on the added value provided by the RBSA.
The Government of Australia and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have signed a five-year Partnership Agreement that will provide $A15 million in the first two years to promote employment and decent work in the Asia-Pacific region.
The US Department of Labor has allocated $59 million in new grants to combat child labour in 19 countries around the world. A large part of these funds are to support ILO-IPEC country projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where despite significant progress over the past few years in combating child labour, millions of children are still forced to work at the expense of their health, education and future.
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.
