Value chain development for decent work

The current global economic crisis has rendered governments, employers and workers concerned about the effects on people, enterprises and employment. Prepared in the context of the Paris Declaration for AID Effectiveness, this guide systematically addresses all relevant aspects that value chain facilitators need to take into account. It highlights the need to address underlying causes rather than symptoms in individual chains, and it focuses on organizational details, strategic human resources management and action research, whereby value chain mapping and research can contribute to finding solutions on a participatory basis. Prepared for use in promoting growth in selected sectors and based on national priorities led by governments, employers and workers, this guide can be tailored to specific situations and used by both public and private sector entrepreneurs to facilitate and promote broad based sustainable growth.