Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department (EMP/ENTERPRISE)
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  1. Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department (EMP/ENTERPRISE)
    Employment Sector
    International Labour Office 4 Route des Morillons
    Geneva
    CH - 1211
    Switzerland
    Website:www.ilo.org/empent
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Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department (EMP/ENTERPRISE)

All across the world people are in search of jobs. Jobs so they can raise their families and send their children to school. Jobs that provide access to social protection for them and their families. And, jobs in which they are respected, can organize and have a voice. What they want is decent work.

Enterprises play a key role in creating productive and decent work that helps meet the economic and social aspirations of people and their communities. Whether small, medium or large, enterprises – including cooperatives – they are a major source of growth and employment in all countries. Enterprises and the entrepreneurs who run them play a crucial role in creating jobs and reducing poverty.
 

No decent work strategy can be successful without encouraging entrepreneurship, innovation and productivity.”

Juan Somavia, Director-General
International Labour Organization

What's new

  1. ILO’s commitment to Rio +20

    07 May 2012

    The ILO is participating actively in the preparations for the upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Member countries and social partners have endorsed a set of key messages for the outcome of the summit in June. They call for a stronger coherence between the three pillars of sustainable development and urge the importance of creating more and better employment opportunities while enabling the transition to a green economy.

  2. 3rd Intersessional Meeting of UNCSD, UN Secretariat

    26 March 2012

    The third open-ended informal intersessional meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development will be held on Monday, 26 March, and Tuesday, 27 March 2012, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 to 6 p.m. in the Economic and Social Council Chamber (NLB). As this meeting is an informal one, no formal list of speakers will be maintained or opened for pre-inscription. Members of permanent missions, United Nations staff, and representatives of intergovernmental organizations and major groups are invited to attend.

  3. Eastern Europe and Central Asia should transition toward sustainable development now or pay more in the future, says UN report

    23 March 2012

    Eastern Europe and Central Asia need to remove fossil fuel subsidies, invest in ‘green’ jobs, and establish social protection floors to ensure a sustainable future. These were some of the findings from a new UN report “From Transition to Transformation”, launched in Istanbul, Turkey at the first Global Human Development Forum.

  4. Green Job creation in Mauritius

    22 February 2012

    The ILO Green Jobs Programme organized a national workshop on green jobs creation on 22 and 23 February 2012. During this workshop, Government representatives, as well as employers’ and workers’ organizations discussed the results of four national assessments on green job creation conducted during the past months and developed a strategy to integrate the creation of green jobs into the national development strategy.

  5. New UNRISD Film on "Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing Back the Social"

    10 February 2012

    Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing Back the Social is the first of six films in the series "Bringing the Social to Rio+20". The film uses footage from recordings and interviews from the 2011 UNRISD conference, "Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing Back the Social Dimension". It explores green economy's potential as a path to inclusive, sustainable development and poverty eradication.

Key resources

  1. Value Chain Development for Decent Work : A guide for development practitioners, government and private sector initiatives
    16 October 2009

    1. Making the strongest links: A practical guide to mainstreaming gender analysis in value chain development
      31 July 2009

      A new publication from the ILO provides groundbreaking methods for incorporating gender concerns into the different stages of value chain analysis and strengthening the links essential for gender equality and promoting sustainable pro-poor growth and development strategies.

      1. ILO Helpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards
        01 May 2009

        The ILO Helpdesk is a free and confidential service that can help your company align its operations with international labour standards and the ILO approach to socially responsible labour practices.

        1. The labour Principles of the United Nations Global Compact – A Guide for Business
          16 December 2008

          As the first publication of the newly-established UN Global Compact Labour Working Group, this Guide aims at helping companies understand and apply the four labour principles into practice (UNGC principles 3-6). In a question and answer format, this Guide provides a brief description of each of the four Global Compact labour principles, and also provides practical guidance on what companies can do to respect, promote, and realise them. It also contains an inventory of key ILO resources that will help companies realise the labour principles.

          1. Tripartite declaration of principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy (MNE Declaration) - 4th Edition
            01 January 2006

            1. Leaflet: Tripartite Declaration on Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy - Translating labour principles into practice
            2. Follow-up surveys
            3. Short overview of the Principles of the MNE Declaration

          2. Labour and Labour-Related Laws in Micro and Small Enterprises: Innovative Regulatory Approaches
            01 December 2007

            SEED Working Paper No. 81

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