TUDEP is a learning tool meant to support trade unions worldwide in the application of the effectiveness principles in their everyday development cooperation practice.

The pamphlet aims to introduce trade unionists to the 2030 Agenda and its overlap with the work of the labour movement. It gives an overview of how the Sustainable Development Goals and the work of trade unions can be mutually reinforcing and outlines some steps for trade union engagement at national, regional and international level.

This guidance note presents the COS framework; it reviews the concrete steps that can be used for its application and makes recommendations in this area.

Forced labour is defined in the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 29, one of the most ratified ILO Conventions, as work that is performed involuntarily and under coercion. It can take place in any industry, including in the informal economy. Many victims, in particular women and girls, are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation, but forced labour is also prevalent in sectors such as agriculture, fishing, domestic work, construction, manufacturing and mining. It includes men, women and children in situations of debt bondage, suffering slavery-like conditions or who have been trafficked.