Global Employment Agenda

The conviction that employment is fundamental to the fight against poverty and social exclusion was a conclusion both of the World Summit on Social Development in 1995 and the 24th Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2000, which called upon the ILO to develop a coherent and coordinated international strategy for the promotion of freely chosen productive employment. The Global Employment Agenda is Office's response to this request. The Agenda's main aim is to place employment at the heart of economic and social policies. Consistent with the Millennium Development Goals, the Agenda seeks, through the creation of productive employment, to better the lives of people who are either unemployed or whose remuneration from work is inadequate to allow them and their families to escape from poverty.