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As of 1st July 2005, ILO, under the leadership of the Director General, is the new Chair of the Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (CCO)1, a commitment lasting until the end of June 2006.
As Chair, the ILO assumes a key responsibility for the functioning of the CCO, in addition to its ongoing contribution as a cosponsor. The ILO will take the lead role in preparing the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) meetings and provide support and direction on other issues. This will involve in particular coordinating the follow-up to the outcomes of the review of the CCO role, functions and modus operandi, with a view to creating a stronger and more effective body, and making it a flagship of the UN Reform Agenda.
The position will provide the ILO with a major and timely opportunity to generate a new level of understanding and consensus - among a wide group of development stakeholders - of the role inter-connections between HIV/AIDS and Decent Work Agenda, changing patterns and trends in the world of work, and the social dimensions of globalization.
As the UN agency with special responsibility for the world of work, the ILO can play an important role in helping key partners, especially fellow Cosponsors, to develop and implement strategies which protect, mobilize, and develop national capacities to respond to HIV/AIDS - at global, country and community levels.
An important contribution to capacity building is the development and the implementation of treatment access workplace programmes. The ILO provides access to the world of work, particularly through occupational health and safety mechanisms and labour inspectorate, as appropriate structures to implement prevention, care and support strategies.
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| 1 The functions of the Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (CCO) are: |
| • | To review work plans and the proposed programme budget for each coming financial period, prepared by the Executive Director and reviewed by such advisory committees as may be established by the Executive Director, in time for presentation to the annual meeting of the PCB; |
| • | To review technical and financial proposals to the PCB for the financing of the Joint Programme for the coming financial period; |
| • | To review technical and audited financial reports submitted by the Executive Director (including reports by advisory committees established by the Executive Director), and to transmit these with comments as appropriate to the PCB; |
| • | To make recommendations for approval on particular aspects of the Joint Programme specifically referred to it by the PCB; |
| • | To review the activities of each Cosponsoring organization for appropriate support and consistency and coordination with the activities and strategies of the Joint Programme; |
| • | To report to the PCB on the efforts of the Cosponsoring organizations to bring the Joint Programme's policy, strategic and technical guidance into the policy and strategy mainstream of their respective organizations and to reflect them in activities specific to their mandates; and take decisions, on behalf of the PCB, on issues referred to it for this purpose by the PCB; and |
| • | To prepare an annual report on its activities for the PCB. |
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