Developing consensual policies

Description

Developing consensual policies involves facilitating inclusive dialogue among stakeholders to collaboratively identify shared goals and negotiate mutually acceptable solutions. This strategy aims to resolve conflicts, build trust, and ensure broad support for policy implementation. By prioritizing transparency and participation, it remedies issues of exclusion, resistance, and inefficiency, resulting in policies that are more sustainable, equitable, and responsive to diverse needs within communities or organizations.

Context

The need to link structural adjustment packages more closely to medium-term development strategies is now widely recognized. The success of these strategies depends on the ability of policy-makers to obtain the agreement of competing interest groups in order to obtain support for a sustainable economic strategy.

Implementation

ILO investigates the substantive and procedural issues that need to be taken into account in order to achieve sustainable adjustment through the development of tripartite understanding.

Claim

Political sustainability of adjustment policies can be enhanced through greater participation and dialogue involving governments, employers and trade unions.