Value chain development for green jobs in Asia - Volume I: Methodological guide

This guide outlines a framework for integrating the conventional market-focused approach to value chain development with an assessment of the environmental and social outcomes generated by a given sector. The aim is to promote employment that is environmentally, socially and economically sustainable, and is particularly focused on the challenges and opportunities for green jobs promotion in the Asia-Pacific region.
Central to the green jobs intervention design process is the identification and promotion of co-benefits; interventions that promote positive outcomes in more than one of the green jobs focus areas (e.g. global environmental impacts, local environmental impacts, decent work and sustainable livelihoods). The methodology emphasises the importance of engaging with the underlying structural factors and advocates the use of a systems-based approach which involves engagement not only with enterprises but also with government bodies and worker’s organizations. Reducing the environmental and social externalities generated by the value chain therefore requires not just a firm-level cost or competitiveness analysis, but also an engagement with the wider business enabling environment.