Strategic Objectives
The ILO has now shifted to a strategic focus in planning its biennial budget. Four strategic objectives guide the ILO programme and budget:

• To promote and realise standards and fundamental principles and rights at work
• To create greater opportunities for women and men to secure decent employment and income
• To enhance the coverage and effectiveness of social protection for all
• To strengthen tripartism and social dialogue.

Pacific Island Member States
In 1975 the ILO opened its Pacific Office in the Fiji Islands. Since then with its traditional partners - Government, workers’ and employers’ organizations (Constituents) it has been promoting Decent Work through various means of action including technical co-operation in Pacific Island countries.
The ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries, which is headed by Director Werner K Blenk and has 25 staff, serves 22 Pacific Island countries, eight of which are ILO member states:

Fiji (joined in 1974),
Papua New Guinea (joined in 1976),
Solomon Islands (joined in 1984),
Kiribati (joined in 2000),
Vanuatu (joined in 2004),
Samoa (joined in 2005),
the Republic of Marshall Islands (joined in July 2007)
and most recently Tuvalu (joined in May 2008).