- 50 - SALVADOR PLAN OF ACTION 1. We, the Ministers of Labor of the Americas, gathered in the city of Salvador, State of Bahia, Federal Republic of Brazil, on September 24, 25 and 26, 2003, on the occasion of the Thirteenth Conference of Ministers of Labor of the Organization of American States (OAS), commit ourselves to implement the following Plan of Action: A. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN OF ACTION: ORGANIZATION 2. The Chair Pro Tempore of the Thirteenth Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor (Brazil) in collaboration with the former Chair (Canada) and the future Chair (Mexico), with the support of the Technical Secretariat of the OAS and in consultation with the representatives of the Trade Union Technical Advisory Council (COSATE), the Business Technical Advisory Committee on Labor Matters (CEATAL), and the Permanent Technical Committee on Labor Matters (COTPAL), will be responsible for promoting the implementation of the Plan of Action and for improving collaboration and cooperation with the social and labor forums constituted in the various trade liberalization and integration initiatives in the Americas, and with the relevant regional and international organizations, such as the Organization of American States (OAS), International Labor Organization (ILO), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), the Central American Bank of Economic Integration (CABEI), and the World Bank. B. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN OF ACTION: RESOURCES 3. Member states should devote the available economic, technical, and logistical resources to implement the Plan of Action and to encourage the participation of COSATE and CEATAL. In addition, the Chair Pro Tempore will invite the relevant regional and international organizations to make voluntary contributions to support activities and projects included in this plan, and to facilitate the participation of said worker and employer organizations. C. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN OF ACTION: WORKING GROUPS 4. Participation in the Working Groups will be open to all Member states, as well as COSATE and CEATAL. The Chair Pro Tempore will seek the means to ensure the active participation of all the member states and the social partners (i.e. the most representative employers’ and workers’ organizations) in the implementation of the Plan of Action. WORKING GROUP 1: LABOR DIMENSIONS OF THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS PROCESS 5. The Working Group will continue examining the topic of globalization in relation to employment and labor, to follow up on those issues that have been already identified as requiring major effort on behalf of the member states and intensifying collaboration and hemispheric cooperation in the search for better shared solutions, with strong emphasis on the integration of economic and social policies in the national, regional, and subregional spheres.