The workshop on ‘Good and Decent Jobs, Skills and Entrepreneurship for a Just Energy Transition’ brought together around 80 people from governments, enterprises, workers, financial institutions and development partners to discuss how to design a future of work for the clean energy transition that is just and with decent quality job creation.




Among the messages discussed it was noted that jobs are rising in clean energy but these might not be decent by default – we must work on the design of the interventions so that they include decent jobs that contribute to inclusive and sustainable growth.

Participants indicated that to facilitate the just energy transition we must:

• Support small green entrepreneurs because they have a huge potential to accelerate the clean energy transition and create decent jobs.
• Provide more incentives for human capital development to happen at all levels of society and incentives for SMEs (start ups) for green economy.
• Include workers, employers and governments in the interventions because each have a role to play.
• Design instruments for policy coherence and social dialogue for the just transition across Ministries and different levels of government.
• Scale up training for the clean energy transition in a much more rapid way assuring that more investments target the capacity of education systems, the quality of teachers and ICT connectivity as these are as important for the transition as it is greening our laws and regulations.
• Invest at the local level so that implementation happens on the ground, reaching also the informal sector. And ensure adequate financing for green skills reaches the local level.