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With over 50 years of experience in development cooperation on all continents and at all stages of development, the ILO today has a bigger portfolio than ever with 630 programmes and projects in more than 100 countries – with the support of 120 development partners.
Development cooperation builds bridges between the ILO’s standard-setting role and women and men everywhere. It is essential to give people decent work opportunities and an important means of assisting our constituents – workers, employers and governments – in making the Decent Work Agenda a reality. Simply put, development cooperation supports the technical, organizational and institutional capacities of ILO constituents for them to put in place meaningful and coherent social policy and ensure sustainable development.
Programmes and projects can be funded by the ILO's regular budget or by virtue of voluntary contributions from development partners. Voluntary contributions complement the ILO’s own resources and, in the period 2008-2014, made up 42 per cent of overall ILO funds. Voluntary contributions are allocated to ILO country and global outcomes and are usually managed through extra-budgetary projects.
