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

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

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

Trade unions participate as a constituency in its own right in the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE). 2. Trade Unions influence the positions of civil society organisations (CSOs) around development priorities at global level:

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

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. 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. 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; ADVOCACY....Challenges....

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