Localizing the Decent Work Agenda Through South-South and City-To-City Cooperation
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Localizing the Decent Work Agenda through South-South and City-to-City Cooperation Department of Partnerships and Field Support International Labour Office Localizing the Decent Work Agenda through South-South and City-to-City Cooperation Department of Partnerships and Field Support International Labour Office Copyright © International Labour Organization 2015 First published 2015 Publications of the International Labour Office enjoy copyright under Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. Nevertheless, short excerpts from them may be reproduced without authorization, on condition that the source is indicated. For rights of reproduction or translation, application should be made to ILO Publications (Rights and Permissions), International Labour Office, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland, or by email: [email protected]. The International Labour Office welcomes such applications. 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Catalogues or lists of new publications are available free of charge from the above address, or by email: [email protected] Visit our website: www.ilo.org/publns Design and printing by the International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin - Italy Printed in Italy Contents Foreword .....................................................................................................2 Acknowledgements ......................................................................................4 1. Localizing the Decent Work Agenda: SSTC an enabling platform for cities to promote decent work ....................6 The importance of decent work ...............................................................8 Progression of SSTC in recent years ........................................................8 Fostering City-to-City Cooperation through a South-South and Triangular Cooperation approach to promote the Decent Work Agenda ......10 Bottom-up approaches are needed to promote international development ......14 2. Localizing the global Decent Work Agenda: Opportunities provided by the current context ........................................16 Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals............................................17 Habitat III ..........................................................................................19 The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 .............22 Climate change and disaster risk reduction ............................................23 3. ILO’s engagement with local authorities.................................................26 ILO’s work with cities and local authorities ...........................................26 ILO technical cooperation projects involving local authorities ..................27 4. City-to-City Cooperation: Fostering local capacity and innovation through peer-to-peer learning exchanges within SSTC .............46 The ILO and UCLG Memorandum of Understanding ................................46 Maputo, Mozambique, November 2012 .................................................48 Lleida, Spain, June 2013 ....................................................................49 Chefchaouen, Morocco, September 2014 ..............................................49 Pasto, Colombia, January 2015 ............................................................50 Borgou, Benin, February 2015 .............................................................51 5. Developing and promoting local Decent Work Agendas through City-to-City and South-South and Triangular Cooperation .............52 Practical steps in localizing the Decent Work Agenda ..............................53 Creating a successful peer partnership ..................................................58 In conclusion ......................................................................................60 Useful resources ........................................................................................62 1 Foreword Cities, local and regional governments City-to-City Cooperation (C2C), today are at the forefront of within the framework of South-South development efforts. They provide and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC), fertile ground for the promotion provides an innovative means for cities of local economic development to develop local solutions to often (LED) and drive change. With in- global issues, with local authorities depth understanding and awareness acting as change-makers in their of the challenges, concerns communities. and opportunities facing their Local authorities also play a communities, local authorities play a hands-on role in the international central role in constructing inclusive development agenda as they carry out and participative decision-making international advocacy strategies to processes that ensure the well-being influence policy and are key actors of their citizens. in implementing decisions that are The ILO builds on the vision that local made internationally – and which actors are important contributors to impact their communities directly. employment creation, social protection The current juncture – including and the protection of fundamental the implementation of the recently principles and rights at work. In this adopted Sustainable Development view and in order to localize the Goals (SDGs), the Sendai Framework Decent Work Agenda (DWA), the ILO for Disaster Risk Reduction, and signed a cooperation agreement with the preparatory process towards the the World Organisation of United Habitat III Summit in October 2016 Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) – provides unique opportunities for in 2012. Working together, the two local authority engagement. Not organisations improve local actors’ only will they be vital stakeholders capacities through South-South and in efforts to achieve internationally City-to-City Cooperation and projects agreed development goals and focusing on employment creation, sustained progress on the ground, they local economic development and are also essential actors in helping formalization of the informal sector. to mainstream the Decent Work Peer-to-peer exchange activities Agenda at the local level. Much of the help build the capacity of local ILO’s work with local authorities on authorities for effective policy making, technical cooperation projects seeks development planning and strategy to boost local economic development implementation. and promote decent work objectives, 2 including fundamental principles and a productive platform for the rights at work, employment creation, identification of common challenges social protection, and social dialogue. and practical policy transfer, and contributes to building the capacity The ILO and UCLG have undertaken of municipalities to reach these a number of joint activities that seek objectives and to enhance local to improve local actors’ capacities economic development. through South-South and City-to-City Cooperation. These include peer- In order to seize the historic learning activities that bring together opportunities at hand, including counterparts from different cities who the recently adopted Sustainable bring a range of perspectives and Development Goals, local governments experiences that enrich one another must be enabled to play their and which can promote partnerships essential role in efforts to achieve for current and future common the Sustainable Development Goals. challenges. We therefore hope that this publication will help raise the profile of cities, local Localizing the Decent Work Agenda and regional governments as drivers calls for the involvement of many of change, and encourage effective actors, including international city collaboration amongst cities to share networks, workers’ and employers’ and promote the diversity of effective, associations, international inclusive and sustainable solutions and organisations, academic institutions, strategies that cities can provide. local social actors, and development partners. Further action is needed to foster decent work objectives at the Josep Roig, Secretary General (UCLG) local level. City-to-City Cooperation, Virgilio Levaggi,