Netherlands - ILO Cooperation
The Netherlands is a founding member of the ILO and a generous donor to the ILO’s development cooperation programme. The Netherlands has ratified 109 conventions and two Protocols, which includes all eight Fundamental and four Governance Conventions.
The Netherlands' policy on foreign trade and development cooperation
At the international level, the Netherlands pursues four closely connected objectives:- Preventing conflict and instability;
- Reducing poverty and social inequality;
- Promoting sustainable and inclusive growth and climate action worldwide; and
- Enhancing the Netherlands’ international earning capacity.
With special attention given to its focus regions in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, the Government of the Netherlands is working to address income inequality and investing in new programs supporting young women and men through general and vocational education as well as employment. In these regions, spending will increase by at least one third in the following areas:
- water;
- agriculture;
- sexual and reproductive health and rights;
- climate change;
- rule of law; and
- private sector development