… Given that it is a World Cup year, the Board has agreed with FIFA to launch our second public report, together with FIFA’s responses, after the tournament at the end of the summer. However, to avoid too lengthy a gap in ensuring transparency around our work, we are issuing this short update statement as an addition to our formal reporting process…

The Board and the secretariat have been closely tracking FIFA’s progress against the 33 specific recommendations from our September 2017 report. FIFA has met a number of those recommendations already, and implementation is ongoing or at advanced stages in many other cases…

Since our last report, FIFA has stepped up its efforts to work in collaboration with the Local Organising Committee (LOC) and other parties to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) supporting the decent work monitoring system…

… One outstanding area of our advice, however, is the need for greater transparency about the overall outcomes of the decent work monitoring system, including fatalities. In this regard, we understand that FIFA intends to publish a “lessons learned” review of the decent work monitoring system following the conclusion of the FIFA World Cup 2018…