EU Member States Experts Meeting on Employment, Technical Vocational Education and Training TVET and

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EU Member States Experts Meeting onEmployment,
Technical Vocational Education and Training
(TVET)and Social ProtectionBrussels, 25-26
October 2007

• Decent Work
• Country Programmes
• Azita Berar Awad
• Director
• Employment Policy Department
• ILO, Geneva

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Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs)

• Introduced in 2005 as the framework for delivery
  of ILO support at the country level
• Objective support to the realization of decent
  work agenda at the national level

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The decent work agenda

• A confirmed global goal (international, regional,
  EU, UN/CEB) and a principled framework that
  needs to be defined and realized at the country
  level
• Taking into account specific political, economic,
  social and institutional realities
• Connecting with national policy reform agendas in
  the context of globalization
• Promoting coherence between economic and social
  goals and policies
• Encouraging synergies and integration across the
  four pillars of the decent work agenda
• Promoting social dialogue
• Promoting and inviting broad partnerships

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DWCPs

• Introduced in 2005 as the operational framework
  for ILO activities in a given country, DWCP is
• a programming tool in a result based framework to
  deliver on a limited number of priorities, over a
  defined period of time, with a visible and
  transparent strategy to maximise the impact
• an advocacy framework that draws on and promotes
  tripartism and social dialogue
• government departments and agencies, employers
  and workers organizations actively participate
  in the formulation, implementation and
  evaluation.
• a consolidated platform to engage in national
  policy frameworks (PRSs, MDGs) and to contribute
  to UN-wide programming (UNDAF,  ONE-UN )
• invites dialogue and broad partnerships with
  national and international partners and
  institutions

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DWCPs

• The process
• starts with problem analysis and lessons learned
• identifies a limited number of priority areas of
  cooperation (1-3) in line with national
  development frameworks (e.g. MDGs, PRS, UNDAF),
  the views of the constituents and the ILO mandate
• sets intended medium-term (4-6 years) outcomes
  following the national programming cycle
• defines an implementation plan with outputs and
  resources
• monitors and evaluates performance in order to
  adjust activities and outcomes accordingly

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DWCPs

• Priority areas of cooperation are articulated
  around the four interdependent pillars of the
  Decent Work Agenda, namely employment, standards,
  social protection and social dialogue, where the
  ILO has a distinct comparative advantage
• Institutionally it is a tool for
  decentralization. Field office directors are
  responsible for formulation and implementation.
  Headquarters is consulted and provide technical
  and financial support during implementation

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Status of DWCPs

• To date, around 30 DWCP are finalised and close
  to 50 are under preparation

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Decent Work Agenda and DWCP

• Drawing on all four pillars with context specific
  articulation and sequencing

Generate quality jobs
Broad social protection
Sustained social dialogue
Basic rights at work
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A snapshot of thematic DWCPs priorities

• Employment is a priority issue in all regions,
  promotion of youth employment a common objective,
  increasing focus on informal economy
• Standards related activities put priority on the
  elimination of child labour, especially its worst
  forms priority in almost all regions
• Improved and extended social protection is a
  common theme in all regions
• All regions have indicated strengthening
  institutions and the promotion of social dialogue
  as priorities

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An exampleTanzania DWCP priorities (2006-10)

• Priority area 1 Poverty reduction through
  creation of decent work opportunities with a
  focus on young women and men
• Priority area 2 Incidence of child labour and
  its worst forms reduced
• Priority area 3 Socio-economic impact of
  HIV/AIDS at the workplace mitigated
• Cross cutting priorities
• Strengthening the social dimensions of regional
  integration in East Africa for a fair
  globalization
• Expanding the influence of Ministries of Labour,
  social partners, social dialogue and tripartism

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Tanzania Articulation of DWCP with development
policy frameworks
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Some lessons and challenges

• DWCP must be clearly integrated with national
  policy framework and captured in UN country
  programmes/UNDAF requires extended advocacy and
  capacity building
• With firm political commitment a DWCP can be
  effectively used as a promotional tool supporting
  the national partners to mainstream the Decent
  Work Agenda in economic reform initiatives
• Participation of constituents in development,
  implementation and evaluation of DWCPs essential
  for relevance, efficiency and ownership for
  sustained results engaging traditional partners
  key for coherence and coordination
• Strong and broad partnerships are key to advocate
  and project decent work needs including through
  strong partnerships with national and
  international organizations in policy and
  technical cooperation frameworks

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A closer look at the components of employment in
DWCPs
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Many thanks for your attention !