Partnerships

The ILO works with a range of partners to deliver its mandate: to promote decent work for all women and men all over the world. For decent work to happen, partnering with a wide range of world of work actors is essential. By joining forces, partners bring different and complementary skills and resources to the table – at different levels.

Social partners

The ILO is the only tripartite UN agency: it includes governments and employers' and workers' representatives in its policy and decision-making structures. This tripartite structure makes the ILO a unique forum in which the governments and the social partners in the real economy of its 186 Member States can freely and openly debate and elaborate labour standards and policies.

Public-private partnerships

Public- private partnerships support all areas of the ILO’s work. Over the past 10 years, the ILO has entered into also 250 partnerships with 108 different partners show that decent work has become a shared development objective, also for the private sector.

South-South and triangular cooperation

The ILO has been a key international player in presenting good practices and solutions from the Global South. South-South and triangular cooperation offers real, concrete solutions to development challenges.

United Nations

As a specialized UN agency, the ILO participates in UN coordinating mechanisms and works with the rest of the UN family at all levels to promote decent work and sustainable development.

Non-state actors and civil society

The ILO engages with non-state actors to promote decent work for all. Their support for policy setting, adopting legislation and development cooperation is essential to promote fundamental principles and rights at work, employment and sustainable enterprises, and social protection and to ensure better working conditions.