Overview

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Overview

• Why?
• How?
• Key findings
• Job creation
• Rights at work
• Social Protection
• Social Dialogue
• The multilateral system
• Impact?

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Why?

• Decent Work is
• something were already doing
• not relevant for the poorest
• too vague
• But Decent Work is also facing
• a very large deficit under the MDGs

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How?

• Developed 14 criteria based on the ILOs Decent
  Work Agenda
• Each graded on a scale of 1 to 4
• Survey of DFID staff, desk research
• Follow-up interviews with DFID staff
• Latest research making case for each pillar

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14 Criteria
Pillar 1 Job creation 1. Decent work MDG
target 2. Country-level job creation 3. Private
sector job creation Pillar 2 Rights at work
4. A responsible private sector 5.
Implementation of labour standards 5. Tackling
discrimination, child and forced labour Pillar
3 Social protection 7. Social Protection
floors 8. Workplaces and public services 9.
Securing domestic support Pillar 4 Social
dialogue 10. Supporting processes 11. Social
partner capacity building 12. Social partners and
good governance
Decent Work in the multilateral system 13.
Support for the ILO 14. Other key actors
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How do we score?
Score Key
0 - No work done
1 - Unsatisfactory A sole project or sporadic country-level work
2 - Weak Broader range of activities but with significant gaps
3 - Good Department wide work with some room for improvement
4 - Strong Department-wide commitment and action
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DFIDs score 25/56
Fail
Pass mark
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Job creation (6/16)

• No overall Decent work MDG target (1)
• Some promising country-level work (3)
• Private sector support not linked to decent jobs
  (2)

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Rights at work (5/12)

• Patchy work on corporate responsibility (2)
• Allergic to supporting labour administrations (1)
• Little on tackling discrimination or child labour
  (2)

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Social protection

• Supporting social protection in 17 countries
  (3)
• Limited linkages with work and public services
  (2)
• Contradictory work on tax collection capacity (2)

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Social dialogue (4/12)

• We do not recognise the concept of social
  dialogue (1)
• Almost no support for trade unions (1)
• Limited union role in holding governments to
  account (2)

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Decent work in the multilateral system (3/8)

• DFID ranks 22 out of 23 in levels of development
  cooperation support to the ILO (1)
• Support for non-binding labour standards in trade
  deals etc (2)

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What impact?

• Minister surprised and disappointed
• Labour party excellent contribution (?!?)
• Some take-up from union affiliates
• Debate in the development community
• The global union movement?

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For more information

• Blog Is DFID allergic to Decent Work?
• https//bitly.com/SNoqW1
• The full report www.tuc.org.uk/tucfiles/394/A_Dec
  ent_Job.pdf
• Ben Moxham bmoxham_at_tuc.org.uk
• TUC international officer