The framework encourages collaboration amongst governments, employers, and workers’ organizations to implement solutions that support livelihoods and strengthen social cohesion. Embedding decent work principles, such as fair wages, safe working conditions, and social protections, into crisis responses helps stabilize communities and reduces the risk of conflict resurgence.  

Recognizing the pivotal role of nexus approaches in advancing decent work in fragile contexts, UNDP, through the Nexus Campus of its Crisis Academy, partnered with the International Labour Organization (ILO) to bring together regional policymakers for a workshop focused on integrating nexus approaches with decent work principles. Through this collaboration, UNDP encouraged the ILO to adhere to the OECD DAC-UN recommendation on the HDP Nexus. This partnership underscored the critical importance of combining UNDP's expertise in nexus approaches with ILO’s commitment to decent work.  

The collaboration enabled key actors in the region to develop plans based on practical insights and lessons. In Jordan, this meant developing cash-for-work initiatives, such as business incubators, vocational training, entrepreneurship loans, and the Employment Intensive Investment Program for public works. In Yemen, a Multi-Partner Trust Fund provided innovative ways to promote decent work initiatives in a highly volatile context.  

The Nexus Campus is part of UNDP’s Crisis Academy and is supported by the governments of Germany, Republic of Korea and Spain. Its initiatives emphasize a hands-on approach to capacity building and learning for UN personnel and its partners. By connecting humanitarian assistance, development goals, and peacebuilding efforts, these trainings equip professionals from across sectors to foster more effective collaboration in crisis contexts.