Training for Taawon Members on Consensus Building Skills

Decent work sums up the aspirations of people in their working lives. It involves opportunities for work that is productive and delivers a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for families, better prospects for personal development and social integration, freedom for people to express their concerns, organize and participate in the decisions that affect their lives and equality of opportunity and treatment for all women and men Productive employment and decent work are key elements to achieving a fair globalization and poverty reduction. The ILO has developed an agenda for the community of work looking at job creation, rights at work, social protection and social dialogue, with gender equality as a crosscutting objective. There has been an increased urgency among international policy-makers, particularly in the wake of the global financial and economic crisis of 2008, to deliver quality jobs along with social protection and respect for rights at work to achieve sustainable, inclusive economic growth, and eliminate poverty. During the UN General Assembly in September 2015, decent work and the four pillars of the Decent Work Agenda – employment creation, social protection, rights at work, and social dialogue – became integral elements of the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Goal 8 of the 2030 Agenda calls for the promotion of sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work, and will be a key area of engagement for the ILO and its constituents. Furthermore, key aspects of decent work are widely embedded in the targets of many of the other 16 goals of the UN’s new development vision. Leaders’ statements and action plans of the G20 , G7, EU, African Union and other multilateral and regional bodies also confirm the significance of decent work to crisis recovery and sustainable development. At national level it is key to strengthen national actors capacity to promote decent work and the SDG and therefore to build their consensus building skills OBJECTIVES This course aimed to provide the participants with the capacity to: • To strengthen the capacity of Taawon member to promote decent work and the achievement of sustainable development goals • To identify jointly how to better use consensus as a tool for promoting decent work and the achievement of sustainable development goals • To acquire knowledge and skills that are necessary in the working life to promote consensus and enhances relationship. CONTENT The training sessions covered the following topics: • Decent Work Country Programme and the Sustainable Development Goals • Consensus Building Skills: Understanding positions and needs • Bargaining • Developing mutual gains ACHIEVEMENT At the end of the course, participants were able to: • Use consensus- building skills for promoting decent work • Promote Sustainable Development Goals.