Presentations

day 1

- Global Goals and National Challenges: MDGs, PRSPs and Decent Work Where are we? What next?, Azita Berar

- Decent Work and PRSPs in Arab States - the case of Yemen, Taleb Rifai

- From Jobs for Africa to Jobs in Africa, Mpenga Kabundi

- Decent work and PRSP - The Indonesian experience: handout and presentation , Peter Rademaker

- Decent Work in Viet Nam

- Mainstreaming & Operationalisation of the Decent Work Agenda through the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), Yukiko Arai

- Work, Rights and Decent Work, Graeme Buckley

day 2

- Poverty Reduction Strategies: Progress in Implementation, Linda van Gelder

- Chronic poverty, with reflections on labour and social protection, Andrew Shepherd

- PRSP assessment

- Improving ILO’s capacity to achieve results in poverty reduction

- The new PRS Manual and Negotiation Training Package

- The Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS), Reference Manual: Information for mainstreaming Decent Work into national poverty strategies

- An Open Economy Framework for Poverty Reduction through Decent Work, Moazam Mahmood

- Social budgeting for poverty reduction, Krzysztof Hagemejer

- Capacity-building Programmeon Gender, Poverty & Employment, Amelita King Dejardin

- The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2000-2005 - a review of ILO approaches

- MDG Fact Sheets: MDG 2, MDG 3, MDG 4, MDG 6, MDG 7, MDG 8

- DWCP & ILO Capacity Building for Poverty Reduction

- Working group: planning for capacity building: Group 1, Group 2, Group 3

Day 3

- Coherence and Coordination Highlights: Decent Work in National Frameworks UNDAF, CCA, PRSP, MDGs

- Decent Work through Local Development

- Poverty reduction through local development: Developing an integrated, decent work approach - Philippine DWPP, Amelita King Dejardin

- Working group: Next steps: Topics, Group 1, Group 2, Group 3

Links and background documents

- ILO Governing Body (Geneva, November 2002): Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs): An assessment of the ILO experience(GB.285/ESP/2)

- ILO Governing Body (Geneva, March 2004) : Report of the Committee on Employment and Social Policy (GB. 289/13)

- Poverty initiatives in the ILO: A review of past and present approaches, February 2004, Pat Holden and Dagmar Walter

- Decent work in a least developed country: A critical assessment of the Ethiopia PRSP, July 2004, Graeme J. Buckley.

- GPE Regional Briefs: Southern Africa:

• No 1: Gender, poverty and employment: Issues, trends and approaches
• No 2: Organisational and negotiating power
• No 3: Access to assets
• No 4: Financial resources for the poor: Focus on credit
• No 5: Access to education and training
• No 6: Women in wage employment
• No 7: Extending social protection to the poor

- Sommet Extraordinaire de l'Union Africaine sur l'Emploi et la Lutte contre la Pauvreté - 3-9 Septembre 2004, Ouagadougou:

• résumé analytique
• déclaration sur l'emploi et la lutte contre la pauvreté en Afrique
• plan d'action
• mécanismes de suivi

- International Monetary Fund: "Report on the Evaluation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and The Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF)"

- World Bank: World Bank Operations Evaluation Department:

• "The Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative - An Independent Evaluation of the World Bank's Support Through 2003"
• "The Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative - An Independent Evaluation of the World Bank's Support Through 2003 - scope and methodology"
• "Summaries of Ten Country Case Studies Undertaken As Part of the IEO Evaluation of the PRSP/PRGF and OED Overview of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) Process"
• "The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers—Progress in Implementation, 2004

- UNHCR, Human Rights in Development: "Draft Guidelines: A Human Rights Approach to Porverty Reduction Strategies"

- The Chronic Poverty Report

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