The 2020 High-Level Meeting (HLM) of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) comes at a crucial time in which development cooperation is more necessary than ever. Trade unions welcome the focus on Financing for Sustainable Development, Building Back Better and Greener and Delivering Development Better, and look forward to engaging with the DAC on such important topics to build recovery and resilience from the Covid-19 crisis.

In light of the extraordinary situation the world is going through, trade unions ask DAC members to have a reaction that matches the scope of the crisis and address it through SDG-driven development cooperation with SDG 8 at its core.

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