Systems Change Initiative for productive employment

This ILO Programme under the Sida-ILO Partnership for 2022–25 is developed with the aim of contributing to Sweden’s global development cooperation in sustainable economic development, - under its overarching objective “to create preconditions for better living conditions for people living in poverty and under oppression”. It also contributes to the ILO’s 2019 Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work and the 2021 Global Call to Action for a human-centred recovery from the COVID-19 crisis that is inclusive, sustainable and resilient. The Sida-ILO partnership works in four key strategic cross-cutting areas: Gender Equality and Non-discrimination; Just Transition and Environmental Sustainability; Conflict perspective and Humanitarian, Peace and Development Nexus (HPD); and Market Systems Development Approach (MSD). This project - the Systems Change Initiative for productive and decent employment – falls under the MSD cross-cutting area and applies the MSD approach to create decent work opportunities for the working poor in specific sectors and value chains. It drives results toward at least three technical areas: – creation of productive and decent employment, decent working conditions and rights at work, skills and lifelong learning – and creates inclusive economic growth and development, and sustainable results for enterprises, informal workers and the working poor at scale. It does so through building partnerships within the ILO to maximize the employment outcomes. The development objective is to create sustainable, more productive and decent employment, better working conditions and improved skills for informal workers and the working poor at scale. To support that objective, the project works to deliver the two key outcomes and outputs. The first outcome is centred on strengthening the global knowledge base on how to use a market systems approach to create opportunities for decent and productive employment. It will do this through developing institutional capacity within the ILO and beyond as well as conducting research and analysis that shed light on why systems do not provide more productive and decent work. The second outcome is centred on creating more productive employment through running of systemic field-level pilot interventions which will be implemented with partners, and the lessons and results documented and shared.

Project symbol

GLO/21/58/SWE

Admin unit

MSME

Start date

01/02/2022

End date

31/12/2025

Total allocation

4208297

Total expenditure

Status

Active

3080422

Development Partners

Sweden, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Country/Countries

Ghana
Republic of Moldova
Global

Outcomes

Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises for inclusive growth and decent work