Employment goals have to be given high political priority. Decent work is a package - bringing the goals of employment and standards together and linking them to other decent work issues of security, social dialogue and gender equality is the key to moving beyond current unresolved debates. This package, combining values and economic and social goals, is the ILO's distinctive contribution to social progress in the global economy. The Governing Body Working Party on the Social Dimension of Globalization provides a valuable institutional framework to embed values in the global economy. An evolving agenda for the ILO and its constituents New orientations for ILO action 27.
Normative action is an indispensable tool to make decent work a reality.
It is helpful to group standards in families around the four strategic objectives of decent work. Positive linkages between these families of standards can encourage member States to make simultaneous progress on each dimension of decent work. We need to be able to respond to new voluntary private initiatives without compromising our autonomy and independence. We should aim to extend knowledge about such initiatives, and could promote social dialogue to breathe the goals, policy objectives and methods of decent work into them. Decent work must be part of development strategy .