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At the request of the General Assembly, the ILO Director-General presented the Global Jobs Pact to ECOSOC during the high-level policy dialogue with the international financial and
trade institutions on current developments in the world economy. The Director-General cautioned that the fallout in the labour market as a result of the financial crisis may take longer than was thought, and that unemployment figures were almost certain to continue rising over the next 12 months. The GJP cautioned against protectionism and amplified the need for transparency in addressing the crisis. It offered a productive response by the actors in the real economy to the excesses
and mismanagement of the financial economy.
ECOSOC subsequently adopted a resolution on "Recovering from the crisis: a Global Jobs Pact" [Français - Español], in which it encouraged UN Member States "to promote and make full use of the Global Jobs Pact as a general framework within which each country can formulate a policy package specific to its situation and priorities”, requests UN funds,
programmes and specialized agencies to take into account the Global Jobs Pact in their policies
and programmes, and invites international financial institutions and other international organizations to integrate the policy contents of the pact in their activities.
It invites donor countries, multilateral and other development partners to consider providing funding for the implementation of the recommendations and policy options of the Global Jobs Pact. The resolution requests the Secretary-General to report to ECOSOC at its 2010 session on progress made in its implementation.
In its Ministerial Declaration on implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to public health, the theme of the 2009 Annual Ministerial Review, ECOSOC recognized the role of social determinants in health outcomes and called on the international community to include support for the efforts
of developing countries in building up and improving basic social protection floors.
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