Workers' and Employers' Organizations and the United Nations: Promoting social justice in a changing Arab region
Workers and employers from the Arab states are participating in a workshop that aims to fostering a new development model for the Arab region and the establishment of corresponding national development frameworks, including stronger and more coherent UN policy responses to employment and decent work challenges.
The workshop aims to engage workers' and employers' organizations in fostering a new development model for the Arab region and the establishment of corresponding national development frameworks, including stronger and more coherent UN policy responses to employment and decent work challenges. Participants include worker and employer representatives from Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, the occupied Palestinian territory, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen.
Background papers
- Synthesis of an interagency peer desk review of 2010 signed UNDAFs
- United Nations reform and the International Labour Organization: Questions and Answers
- Working with the ILO - decent work and system wide coherence
- How to prepare an UNDAF (Part I)
- UN reform and workers' organizations, 2008
- UN reform and workers'organizations, 2009
- Integrating green jobs in the United Nations joint programmes: a guidance note
- UNDG (Arab States/MENA): Response strategy and framework for action
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Agenda