Employment promotion

Employment promotion and decent jobs creation are central to enabling countries to address the multiple transitions their societies, economies and labour markets are undergoing due to climate change, demographic shifts and technological developments. Achieving the goal of full, productive, and freely chosen employment, tackling poverty and inequalities and ensuring an inclusive structural transformation is essential for making progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 8, and requires comprehensive employment policy frameworks that address both short- and longer-term impacts of such change.

This includes promoting pro-employment macroeconomic, sectoral and labour market policies that are critical to ensuring social, economic and environmental transitions. It also includes the creation of quality jobs in the green, circular, digital and care economies; multi-stakeholder engagement; social dialogue; and the strengthening of partnerships for coordinated, coherent and integrated policy responses, including through the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions. These are key solutions to strengthening productive capacities, creating more and better jobs and promoting formalization.