The ILO, together with Enabel – the Belgian Development Agency – and the ILO, are organizing a regional Training on Financing Decent Work and Social Protection with national decision-makers from the EAC Partner States. The training will develop different thematic modules to build a common understanding of the fundamentals of decent work financing, as well as courses and exercises to establish a holistic understanding of the different stages of an employment-related budget, from its elaboration to its execution. Moreover, the curriculum will be adaptable to context-specific circumstances and needs of the Community. A sound understanding of national contexts and specificities will ultimately lead participants to develop roadmaps and identify potential reforms on their national decent work public expenditures.

The main objectives of the workshop are to:
(i) address specific challenges and opportunities of building decent work in Africa;
(ii) identify the benefits of decent work public expenditures;
(iii) fill the “implementation gap” of financing decent work by providing technical guidance to policy makers engaged in the administration and governance of social protection and employment-related programmes;
(iv) develop models that could be customized and applied to a specific country context and using examples and illustrations
(v) undertake a reflection and analysis of policy makers’s respective country situation in terms of financing decent work programmes (i.e. policy mapping and policy gaps, strategic planning, implementation, accounting and controls of public expenditures); and
(vi) develop national roadmaps that could improve decent work financing.

The main expected outcomes of the training are to appreciate the national contexts and challenges to finance decent work in EAC countries; and obtain consensus on the improvement of decent work financing.

Participants:
The training will be attended by Experts drawn from the EAC Partner States’ representatives each drawn from the Ministries responsible for EAC Affairs; Finance, Labor/Employment and Social Protection. Also, to participate will be representatives of Employers’ and Workers’ organization from Partner States.