Global MAP Meeting on measuring and monitoring decent work
The MAP meeting of experts aimed at strengthening ILO constituents’ capacities to measure and monitor decent work, with a series of outputs to be developed by end 2013. A full report on lessons learnt and main challenges will be produced from the proceedings.
Recommendations will be formulated for tools and guidelines and a manual on a global methodology for self-monitoring and self-assessment of progress towards decent work. This global methodology promotes replication beyond the pilot countries covered by the project, encouraging other countries to develop their own strategies for better monitoring decent work results. It will be further developed and discussed at MAP project’s Global Conference (Brussels, mid-2013), which will further feed into ILO Governing Body proceedings in 2013, as well as into the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (2-11 October 2013).
A manual drawing on experiences accumulated through all activities implemented by the MAP project in pilot countries will produced and released in 2013. This manual will serve as an important future EC/ILO tool in support of decent work world-wide, as it will be mainstreamed within ILO activities at the country-level. It will be distributed and made available to all ILO members beyond the pilot countries.
On the request of the European Commission, MAP project will produce a toolkit for mainstreaming decent work in social and non-social development cooperation projects to ensure wider and more practical dissemination of decent work indicators and the mainstreaming of decent work to the donor community. This will be a tool for EC management and operational staff for mainstreaming decent work in their external cooperation programmes and projects.
The final activity of the project will be a global conference in mid-2013 to present and discuss the new “global methodology for the self-monitoring and self-assessment of progress towards decent work”, seeking to raise global awareness and to determine future steps in mainstreaming the methodology in all decent work country programmes (DWCP). The global conference may be held in Brussels thus enabling maximum visibility for the project and ensuring accessibility for the EU member states.
Full information available: Global Meeting of Experts on Decent Work Indicators, 27-29 June, Geneva