Tripartite Meeting on the Presentation of the Mid-term Review of the Implementation Plan of the Abidjan Declaration

Register now for the 10 May Tripartite Meeting on the Presentation of the Mid-term Review of the Implementation Plan of the Abidjan Declaration.

The 14th ILO African Regional Meeting (ARM) held in Abidjan in December 2019 adopted the Abidjan Declaration - Advancing Social Justice: Shaping the future of work in Africa, known as the Abidjan Declaration. In its paragraph 2, the Abidjan Declaration requests the Office to provide constituents with enhanced support to achieve the priorities identified therein by developing an implementation plan, to be presented to the 338th Session (March 2020) of the Governing Body. Subsequently, the Office in consultation with constituents developed an Implementation Plan (IP) supplementing the Abidjan Declaration, which was adopted during the 340th session of the Governing Body in October-November 2020.

In its paragraph 5, the Abidjan Declaration requested the office to prepare a mid-term review to be presented in the margins of the 4th Session of the Specialized Technical Committee on Social Development, Labour and Employment to be held in Eswatini in September 2021. In compliance with this request, the Regional Office for Africa prepared the Mid-term Review of the Implementation Plan of the Abidjan Declaration, through information gathered from the ILO Offices, the ILO tripartite constituents, AUC and RECs, highlighting progress made during the reporting period.

The Mid-Term Review provides an overview of the efforts made by governments, workers’ and employers’ organisations in Africa to implement the Abidjan Declaration through its Implementation Plan (IPAD2019). The report covers a wide spectrum of interventions in support of the Decent Work Agenda and addresses the most essential aspects of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Africa. The report, while revealing the diversity, complexity and relevance of ILO’s mandate in Africa and globally, also showcases the interrelatedness and complementarity of ILO’s interventions on the continent.

The 4th Session of the AU-STC-SDLE could not take place in Eswatini in September 2021 and the ILO side event scheduled on 6th April 2022 during the 4th Session of STC-SDLE, 4th to 8th April 2022, was cancelled due to some unexcepted challenges. Against this backdrop, and in consultation with the tripartite constituents, the meeting to present the Mid-term Review of the Implementation Plan of the Abidjan Declaration, is scheduled on 10th May 2022.

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