Trade Union eLearning Course on the UNSDCF and the Decent Work Agenda

The world needs more responsive trade union organisations with solid influence and knowledge to embrace the 2030 development Agenda and shape its implementation at all levels, ensuring decent work priorities and outcomes. It hopes to raise the interest of trade unions on matters related to UN processes, SDGs, DWCPs, etc. It offers trade unions an alternative way of learning about this complex topic while reinforcing the capacities of unions. By completing this self-guided learning journey, learners will come out with clarity and a better understanding of the UN Reforms and Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) and the impact of Covid-19 on Agenda 2030. Unions as learners will be able to take on a more assertive role in shaping national, sub-regional, and regional policies for a sustainable, inclusive, resilient recovery and decent work for all. The course is a self-paced, highly interactive, self-guided learning. It fits the busy schedule of learners who are otherwise engaged with regular full-time work and trade union activities. With the eCampus app downloaded on the learners’ mobile device, participants are set for learning anywhere, anytime, with an internet connection. A downloadable, verifiable, and social-media-shareable ITCILO Certificate of Participation is automatically generated upon completion of the course The activity is delivered via the eCampus, the education and training platform of the International Training Centre of the ILO. OBJECTIVE This self-paced eLearning course aims to enable trade union leaders, members, activists, and like-minded individuals to engage and act better with a clear understanding of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), the processes and mechanisms to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the development and implementation of Decent Work Country Programmes. CONTENT The open course covers three interactive, interconnected modules: 1. Key elements of the UN reforms and the ILO decent work agenda, 2. Trade unions’ integration on Decent Work priorities into the UN Cooperation Framework, and 3. Frameworks for effective trade union responses to the COVID-19 crisis.