1.1 Our mandate: Working Out of Poverty
1.1 Our mandate: Working Out of Poverty
of the ILO, drafted in 1919, speaks to the headlines of today: “universal
and lasting peace can be established only if it is based upon social
justice”.
What constitutes one of the biggest obstacles to peace and social justice?
The Declaration of Philadelphia, adopted by the ILO in 1944 and annexed
to its Constitution, makes it clear: poverty.
As the Declaration states, “poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to
prosperity everywhere”. In this time of heightened tension and conflict, this
profound truth is more important than ever.
In 1969, the year in which the ILO won the Nobel Peace Prize, my predecessor
David Morse put it succinctly: “Let us make it possible for future
generations to look back on this great 50th anniversary Conference as marking
the beginning of an era – an era when the instincts of solidarity among
the peoples of the world were effectively mobilized in a concerted, worldwide
attack on poverty.”These are the issues on which the daily security of people and their
families depends.
The ILO’s means of action are knowledge, service and advocacy. The
ILO is not a funding institution. We provide policy proposals and advice. We
help formulate rules of the game and international standards. We offer
technical cooperation for pilot projects and programmes. We leverage our
modest resources.
We know only too well that it is precisely the world of work that holds
the key for solid, progressive and long-lasting eradication of poverty. It is
through work that people can expand their choices to a better quality of life.
It is through work that wealth is created, distributed and accumulated. It is
through work that people find a dignified way out of poverty. As this Report
details, the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda is the crucial underpinning of a
broader development agenda for social justice in a richer and globalizing
world.
Each of the Organization’s constituents – governments, employers and
workers – has a concrete role to play in ending poverty: the State as steward
of shared values, growth and distribution and provider of public goods,
services and the enabling environment; the private sector as an engine to
create jobs, investment and enterprise, and tap new markets using sustainable
business models; and workers and their representatives as producers
and as defenders of rights, extending organization and taking full advantage
of the power of dialogue and collective bargaining. All of them working together
to bring progress and hope to our societies.
The reasoning developed in this Report leads to an inevitable conclusion:
We need a decisive tripartite commitment to the eradication of poverty.
Tripartism has national roots embedded in local realities. At the same time,
it can also operate globally through the ILO. Tripartism is thus probably the
single most important development instrument that countries can utilize to
ensure ownership of poverty reduction strategies, stability of national
policies and fairness at home and in relations with donors and international
organizations.
Together, our role in the international effort to eradicate poverty is to
promote public policies, rights, social institutions and market solutions that
permit people to earn a decent living, balance family needs and work out of
poverty. But to do so, women and men need an enabling environment for
empowerment.
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The ILO is anchored in social justice. The opening phrase of the Constitution
of the ILO, drafted in 1919, speaks to the headlines of today: “universal
and lasting peace can be established only if it is based upon social
justice”.
What constitutes one of the biggest obstacles to peace and social justice?
The Declaration of Philadelphia, adopted by the ILO in 1944 and annexed
to its Constitution, makes it clear: poverty.
As the Declaration states, “poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to
prosperity everywhere”. In this time of heightened tension and conflict, this
profound truth is more important than ever.
In 1969, the year in which the ILO won the Nobel Peace Prize, my predecessor
David Morse put it succinctly: “Let us make it possible for future
generations to look back on this great 50th anniversary Conference as marking
the beginning of an era – an era when the instincts of solidarity among
the peoples of the world were effectively mobilized in a concerted, worldwide
attack on poverty.”These are the issues on which the daily security of people and their
families depends.
The ILO’s means of action are knowledge, service and advocacy. The
ILO is not a funding institution. We provide policy proposals and advice. We
help formulate rules of the game and international standards. We offer
technical cooperation for pilot projects and programmes. We leverage our
modest resources.
We know only too well that it is precisely the world of work that holds
the key for solid, progressive and long-lasting eradication of poverty. It is
through work that people can expand their choices to a better quality of life.
It is through work that wealth is created, distributed and accumulated. It is
through work that people find a dignified way out of poverty. As this Report
details, the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda is the crucial underpinning of a
broader development agenda for social justice in a richer and globalizing
world.
Each of the Organization’s constituents – governments, employers and
workers – has a concrete role to play in ending poverty: the State as steward
of shared values, growth and distribution and provider of public goods,
services and the enabling environment; the private sector as an engine to
create jobs, investment and enterprise, and tap new markets using sustainable
business models; and workers and their representatives as producers
and as defenders of rights, extending organization and taking full advantage
of the power of dialogue and collective bargaining. All of them working together
to bring progress and hope to our societies.
The reasoning developed in this Report leads to an inevitable conclusion:
We need a decisive tripartite commitment to the eradication of poverty.
Tripartism has national roots embedded in local realities. At the same time,
it can also operate globally through the ILO. Tripartism is thus probably the
single most important development instrument that countries can utilize to
ensure ownership of poverty reduction strategies, stability of national
policies and fairness at home and in relations with donors and international
organizations.
Together, our role in the international effort to eradicate poverty is to
promote public policies, rights, social institutions and market solutions that
permit people to earn a decent living, balance family needs and work out of
poverty. But to do so, women and men need an enabling environment for
empowerment.
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