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4. Enable GCSPF constituents at the country level to undertake context-
specific research to support improved coordination and more effective
engagement in policy making processes around social protection, share findings
and materials with the GCSPF’s global network, and participate in research
undertaken by the implementing partners (ILO, UNICEF and GCSPF) to learn and
share lessons relevant to the GCSPF’s evidence-based advocacy at the global,
regional and national level.
Engagement with ILO, UNICEF and the EC Delegations
The GCSPF will collaborate closely with all implementing partners, in particular
the ILO, UNICEF and the EU Delegations. We firmly believe that much can be
gained from this unique set up as it combines the institutional, normative and
technical capacities of ILO, UNICEF and the EU with the specific expertise of the
GCSPF constituents in reaching out, mobilising and empowering people and
communities who often remain excluded from policy processes. Therefore, the
GCSPF sees a lot of potential in this joint cooperation, in particular for the
development of opportunities for structural engagement of GCSPF constituents
(civil society and trade unions) in policy making processes and in research.
At the global level, the GCSPF will be represented in the Action’s Steering
Committee. At the national level, the GCSPF will plead for a representation of the
national constituents in a national steering committee as well, alongside ILO,
UNICEF and EC Delegation staff. While the country-specific work plans are being
developed, it might be good to put in place such national steering committees
where the implementing partners meet periodically to discuss the
implementation of the work plans.
Joint inception workshops
Where the ILO and UNICEF organize national inception workshops in the different
countries to develop the country-specific work plans, representatives of the
GCSPF and the national constituents will take part in these national workshops to
be able to contribute towards the overall workplans and develop relationships
between the various implementers and stakeholders.
Engagement among members of the GCSPF and with other national
stakeholders
An important added value of the GCSPF in this Action Programme is to foster
closer cooperation between the different civil society and trade union
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organizations working on social protection in a selected partner country. It will be
key for the GCSPF to bring these different organisations, each holding specific
and relevant expertise, together and build the required level of trust and
confidence to work together at the national level. We will start this exercise with
those organisations with which the individual members of the GCSPF already
have longstanding partnerships. During the inception phase, the GCSPF will
identify other local organisations (by means of a mapping exercise and