FINANCING DECENT WORK CLINICS IN AFRICA: A SOUTH-SOUTH APPROACH

The Financing Decent Work facilitated online training course is introduced as a means to build on the results of the courses delivered since 2020 to the ILO constituents. Considering important lessons learnt in terms of content, modalities and follow-up, these Clinics aim at reaching targeted group of ILO constituents and other interested stakeholders. OBJECTIVES The Sub-regional Peer Learning Financing Decent Work Clinics strengthen constituents' competencies to effectively engage in national financing development work in South-South Cooperation and ensure that their decent work priorities are financed. The training follows a South-South learning approach with participants sharing, learning and exploring solutions together. CONTENT Module 1 Financing Decent work: Current development and need for financing Module 2 Country examples and cross country cooperation Module 3 Key mechanisms explored Module 4 Mainstreaming decent work in financing of SDGs ACHIEVEMENT - Increased knowledge and understanding of financing strategies (such as INFF) and how Decent Work priorities can be incorporated and mainstreamed and how they can benefit from a South-South and peer learning approach; - exploration of financing mechanisms related to South-South Cooperation that seek to combine domestic and international, public, and private sources of financing, focusing on countries in the Global South; - identification of Decent Work financing strategies and mechanisms that can be applied at country level; - establishment of inter-country or regional groups to support each other mutually and continue exchange and learning; - sharing of experiences on financing decent work through South-South and Triangular Cooperation methodologies; - preparation to participate in or initiate national consultations on channelling finance towards Decent Work outcomes through South-South cooperation.