2. THE 2030 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA AND DECENT WORK AGENDA
A : Regional Course on Sustainable Development Goals:
Trade Union Policies and Action Plans
Praia, Cape Verde, 6th March, 2017
Inviolata Chinyangarara Senior Specialist: Workers Activities, ILO DWT– Pretoria

3. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Defining the concept of Decent Work, Decent Work Deficits
Explain how ILO DWA drives Sustainable Development
How DGS cross cutting the 4 pillars of the DWA
Goal 8 is our anchor :DWA in SDGs Agenda 8 plus
How DWA connects to other SDGS other than Goals 5 and 8
Key features of Goal 8 and how it relates to DWA
Explain the relevance of GOAL 5: not isolated to gender but linked to other goals how SDGS can help to reduce gender inequality
Show how DWA is embedded in a number of SDG targets
Discussions and Conclusion
Group Activity

4. Strategic Objetives of the DWA

5. Strategic Objectives of the DWA
All four strategic objectives are recognized by the ILO as inseparable, interrelated and mutually supportive
Failure to promote anyone of them would harm progress towards the other
(Declaration on Social Justice 2008)

6. DECENT WORK AGENDA……Guy Ryder: ILO Director General
“Promoting jobs and enterprise, guaranteeing rights at work, extending social protection and promoting social dialogue are the four pillars of the ILO Decent Work Agenda, with gender as a cross-cutting theme”. These are crucial to advancing the entire sustainable development agenda”

7. Decent Work Agenda Sums up the contemporary mission of the ILO
Founded on values and objectives established in the ILO Constitution
Concept has captured attention globally as viable objective that can make a significant difference in people’s lives everywhere
Concept that can help bring on diverse and sometimes diverging world together
A development strategy that reflects people’s aspirations for decent jobs, better opportunities, voice and representation
Represents tripartite consensus within ILO as a way to respond to the challenges posed by the globalizing world

8. What is Decent Work?
Work that is productive, gives fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for the family, equal opportunities and treatment, better prospects for personal development and social integration, freedom to organize and participate in decision making

9. What Are Decent Work Deficits?
Employment Gap:
Global unemployment reached 197 million in 2015, of which about 75 million are young women and men.
On current trends, global unemployment will rise by 13 million people by 2018
About 74.5 million young people [aged years] were unemployed in 2013
Increased numbers of jobseekers
Discouraged jobseekers [longer look for jobs]
Economically inactive people that prefer not to participate in the labour market

10. What Are Decent Work Deficits?
Vulnerable employment accounts for almost 48% of total employment worldwide
375 million workers are in extreme poverty (below US$1.25 a day)
Nearly 2.2 billion people live below the US$2 poverty line and around 80 percent of the world’s extreme poor live in rural areas where most are dependent on agriculture.
Informal employment remains widespread in most developing countries
Large army of working poor: concept of mass + cheap production for export – the current global model

11. What Are Decent Work Deficits?
Growing gap between level of wages and profits [wage lagging behind productivity]
Exploitation of cheap labour to achieve increased profits
Neglect for human rights, the protection of workers, right to food, economic and social rights as well as the sustainable use of natural resources
The richest 8% of the world’s population earn half of the world’s total income
The richest 1% of the world’s population owns about 40% of the world’s assets

12. What Are Decent Work Deficits?
Increased vulnerability and economic insecurity with a rise in unconventional and precarious jobs such as:
Part-time employment
Self-employment
Fixed term work
Temporary work
On-call work
Home-based work
Women continue to be disproportionately represented in vulnerable employment

13. What Are Decent Work Deficits?
Rights Gap:
Unprotected and exploited workers:
Freedom of Association Collective Bargaining rights violated
Poor working conditions
Child labour: Almost 60 percent of all child labour is found in agriculture, affecting nearly 100 million children
Forced labour

14. Social Protection Gaps
Limited social protection measures have worsened economic insecurity and vulnerability:
Just about 20% of the world working age population (and their families) have access to comprehensive social protection
Limited cover/access to comprehensive social security

15. HOW DECENT WORK DRIVES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH:
Agenda 2030 places DW for all, and the ILO’s mandate and purpose of social justice at the heart of policies for sustainable growth and development
How this will be done?
Placing job creation at the heart of economic policy making and national development plans, UNDAFs and DWCPs
Resulting in increased decent work opportunities and inclusive growth
Jobs focused economic growth is a key drive for sustainable development

16. HOW DECENT WORK DRIVES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Decent job creation in small businesses Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage formalization and growth of SMEs, including access for financial services
How this will be done?
Support SMEs through policies that facilitate transition to formality within the framework of ILO R.204
Facilitation of access to finance and right conditions for SMEs to transition to formality
Improvement of working conditions in SMEs

17. HOW DECENT WORK DRIVES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Decent Work for ALL: By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and DW for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities and equal pay for work of equal value
How this will be done?
Macro-economic policies promoting job creation and support demand and investment along with sector focused policies that enhance productivity
Policies that increase access to finance for SMEs and facilitation of transition for formality
Policies that reduced inequality including social protection measures, wages policies, strengthened labour inspection, increased female participation in labour market and protection of rights to FOA and CB
Policies that promote women entry into the labour market (maternity protection and work-family policies)

18. HOW DECENT WORK DRIVES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Youth employment: (YE)
By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training
Worldwide, over 73 M young people (aged were looking for work in 2014
What need to be done?
Development of strategies to promote YE balancing integrated strategies for growth and job creation with interventions such as job assistance and measures to support youth SMEs
Addressing skills mismatch by ensuring training programs are aligned to labour market needs through introduction of vocational training
Invest in innovative social protection to improve security for workers in precarious employment

19. HOW DECENT WORK DRIVES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Forced labour and child labour
168M children in child labour
Number fallen since 2000 but remains unacceptable
20M people in forced labour worldwide
11m girls and women
Majority exploited by private companies or individuals
What needs to be done?
ILS- which provide a framework for addressing child labour and forced labour- need to be ratified and implemented at national level
Multifaceted approaches to end child labour, including legislation, access to education for all children, social protection for families and labour market policies
2014 ILO protocol on forced addressing modern day slavery requires ratification

20. HOW DECENT WORK DRIVES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Safety and health and work
Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants and those in precarious employment
Daily people die from occupational accidents or disease
2.3 M deaths per year
What needs to be done?
Urgent action to build global culture of prevention that respects the right to safe and healthy working environment
Awareness raising, capacity building on rights and responsibilities for workers and employers
Implementation of ILO fundamental rights and standards at national level
More attention to be given to vulnerable groups (migrants) to ensure rights protection and working conditions improvement

21. How Decent Work is linked to SDGs
1. Jobs, Employment, Skills
2. Social Dialogue
3. Rights at Work
4. Social Protection, Health, Safety at Work

22. How Decent Work is linked to SDGs
Goal 1: No Poverty:
Limited access to basic services, social discrimination, exclusion, lack of participation in decision making
Sustainable jobs, promotion of equality

23. ILO’S Work in the SDGs – DWA embedded in a number of Goals
Goal 13: Climate Action to combat climate change and its impact:
Disruption in economies, affecting lives
“NO JOBS ON DEAD PLANET”: linked to Goal 15 sustainable management of forests etc

24. ILO’S Work in the SDGs – Goal 8 plus
GOAL 8: IS THE ILO ANCHOR
DIRECT, IMPLICITY CONNECTION TO DWA

25. PROMOTE INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH, EMPLOYMENT AND DECENT WORK FOR ALL

26. ILO’S Work in the SDGs – Goal 8 plus
SDG 8 : Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
8.3 promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises including through access to financial services
8.4 improve progressively through 2030 global resource efficiency in consumption and production, and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production with developed countries taking the lead
8.5 by 2030 achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
8.6 by 2020 substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training
8.7 take immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, eradicate forced labour, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms including recruitment and use of child soldiers
8.8 protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments of all workers, including migrant workers, particularly women migrants, and those in precarious employment
8.b by 2020 develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the ILO Global Jobs Pact

27. GOAL 5: Achieve Gender Equality and Empower Women and Girls
Goal 5: not isolated but linked to other goals: cross-cutting
Look at Goal 5 and other goals in view of how SDGs can address and reduce gender inequality and gaps
How are we going to be accountable on gender issues within the context of SDGs?

28. 2030 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA:ILO FOCUS TARGETS
Promote inclusive industrialization & significantly raise industry’s share of employment
Increase access of SME to financial services and value chains
Double agriculture productivity and incomes of small scale food producers
Increase productivity and production
Increase in number of youth and adults with relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
Elimination of gender disparities, ensure equal access

29. 2030 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA:ILO FOCUS TARGETS
End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all form of violence against and torture of children
Ensure public access information and protect fundamental freedoms
Empower and promote social, economic and political inclusion of all irrespective of age, sex, disability , race, ethnic origin, religion or economic status
International support for effective SDGs implementation
Partnerships (PPP) CSO
Capacity building Support

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31. GROUP WORK!!!!!!!!!!