Highlights and Challenges of the TUDCN work

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Highlights and Challenges of the TUDCN work
Bangkok, 3rd 4th and 5th of December
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ADVOCACY.....highlights

• Elaborate TU policy positions
• Bring them towards Development Policy Decision
  making bodies and institutions
• UN
• OECD/DAC
• Global Partnership on Development Effectiveness
• EU

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1. Governments and multilateral organizations
recognize trade unions as development actors in
their own right

• Trade Unions actively mobilized to support their
  priorities in the on-going process around the
  post 2015 framework, both at national and global
  level
• Decent Work and social protection floors are
  currently included in the UN Open Working Group
  (OWG) report on the post 2015 framework

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1. Governments and multilateral organizations
recognize trade unions as development actors in
their own right

• Decent Work as a development policy in the Global
  Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation
  (GPEDC)
• Trade Unions are members of the Steering
  Committee of the GPEDC

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1. Governments and multilateral organizations
recognize trade unions as development actors in
their own right

• The OECD/DAC invites trade unions to the table of
  the development agencies
• OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
  Senior Level Meeting and set up of the first
  Trade Union-DAC Forum meeting on development

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1. Governments and multilateral organizations
recognize trade unions as development actors in
their own right

• The European Union included the Decent Work
  Agenda, social partners role and social
  protection in its main policy documents around
  development policies.
• Permanent TUs representation to the EU Policy
  Forum on Development (PFD), including regional
  organizations in the South

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2. Trade Unions influence the positions of civil
society organisations (CSOs) around development
priorities at global level

• Trade unions participate as a constituency in its
  own right in the CSO Partnership for Development
  Effectiveness (CPDE).

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3. Creation of regional networks in the South to
ensure Southern voices are being heard in
development debates vis-à-vis global, regional
and national institutions

• Regional trade union development networks in
  Latin America and Africa set up.

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ADVOCACY....Challenges....

• Influence policy making at various levels putting
  full and productive employment and decent work,
  universal social protection, rights based
  approach, private sector accountability and
  social dialogue at the forefront for sustainable
  development
• Intergovernmental negotiations around the post
  2015 framework
• Financing for Development process (FFD),
  including the debate on Official development
  assistance (ODA) reform
• GPEDC and DAC future planning (support to social
  dialogue as a development strategy)
• TU-DAC Forum consolidation as a permanent one
• EU positioning on global development policies.

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ADVOCACY....Challenges....

• Build up alliance with likeminded and progressive
  CSOs in order to support global development
  governance based on binding commitments and
  accountability mechanisms
• CPDE
• UN Major Groups.

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ADVOCACY....Challenges....

• Consolidation of existing regional trade union
  development cooperation networks (in terms of
  advocacy and capacity building)
• Elaboration of the multi-annual work plans

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