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1.  SDG 8 – Decent
Work and Economic
Growths

2.  SDG 8 – Promote sustained,
inclusive and sustainable economic
growth, full and productive
employment and decent work for
all.
Endorsed 25-27 Sept 2015 in NY;
came into effect on January 1,
2016

3. DECENT WORK
Advancing opportunities for women and
men to obtain decent and productive
work in conditions of:
- freedom,
- equity,
- security, and
- human dignity

4. GOAL 8 Targets:
Targets correlate with ILO’s daily operational work
 Target 8.3 – Promote development support activities, decent job
creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation and
encourage the formalization economic growth of micro through
access to financial services
 Target 8.4 – Improve resources efficiency in accordance with
sustainable consumption and production with developed countries
taking the lead.
 Target 8.5 – Achieve full employment for all women and men,
including young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay

5.  Target 8.6 – by 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not
in employment, education or training (NEET)
 Target 8.7 – take measure to eradicate forced labour, end modern
slavery and human trafficking eliminate worst forms or all forms of
child labour.
 Target 8.8 – protect labour rights and promote safe and secure
working environments for all workers e.g migrant workers, in particular
women migrants, and those in precarious employment.
 Target 8.9 – By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote
sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and
products

6.  Target 8.10 – Expanding the access to
financial services
 Target 8.b – By 2020, develop and
operationalize a global strategy for youth
employment and implement the Global Jobs
Pact of the International Labour
Organization

7. CHALLENGES
 Implications of an universal agenda for developed
and developing countries: from LDCs to HICs
 Measuring Progress
 How can we collaborate
 Leverage

8. The challenges of
globalization
 Many countries and sectors face major income inequality
 Continuing high levels of unemployment and poverty
 Even before the present financial crisis, 2 in 5 workers still trapped in
informal, low-productivity activities yielding poverty incomes
 Vulnerability of economies to external shocks
 The growth of both unprotected
work and the informal economy,
which impacts on the
employment relationship
and the protections it
can offer

9. WAY FORWARD
 Potential for collaboration
 Conduct Research for evidence
base-policy decisions and SDG
prioritization
 Support constituents through
projects & programmes
 Capacity Building (awareness)
 Decent Work Agenda in SDGs

10. Thank You For
Listening!!!