Apia, Samoa – Representatives from the Samoa National Tripartite Forum (SNTF), Child Labour Taskforce, and other stakeholders participated in a half-day validation workshop of the Samoa Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) 2024-2028 at the Tanoa Hotel Conference Room.
The validation workshop was facilitated by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (MCIL), Mr. Benjamin Harding of Innovative Business Consultants (IBC), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The workshop aimed at validating the DWCP priorities, outcomes, outputs, theory of change, implementation arrangements, monitoring and evaluation, and receiving final feedback from the partners and constituents.
The DWCP 2024-2028 is a time-bound cooperation framework to achieve Decent Work For All and can also be used to align and mobilize technical and financial resources to achieve decent work results. Supported by the ILO, Samoa’s DWCP 2024-2028 highlights the four Pillars of Decent Work: (i) Promoting jobs and enterprise, (ii) guaranteeing rights at work, (iii) promoting social dialogue, and (iv) extending social protection, with gender equality and leaving no one behind as cross-cutting commitments.
The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to offer comments and recommendations to improve the DWCP priorities, outcomes, outputs, and indicators as part of the validation process. In his keynote address, Honourable Leota Laki Lamositele Sio recognized the “tremendous contributions by stakeholders, implementing partners, Samoa National Tripartite Forum (SNTF), and importantly the ILO for their continued technical and financial support to deliver initiatives that are pertinent to the development of our labour systems and promoting decent work for all in law and practice.”
The implementation of the activities set out in the DWCP 2024-2028, when completed and launched, will no doubt contribute to the achievement of key priorities: alleviating poverty and hardship (1), empowering people (4), and skilled workforce (5) of the Pathway for the Development of Samoa, as well as the ILO Strategic Plan 2022-2025 and the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) for the Pacific 2023-2027.
