This document summarizes Sustainable Development Goal 8 on decent work and economic growth. It outlines the targets of SDG 8 which focus on issues like job creation, reducing youth unemployment, ending forced labor and child labor. For Samoa, it discusses current initiatives that align with targets of SDG 8 such as improving access to employment services and entrepreneurship programs for youth. It also identifies priorities going forward such as continuing to support youth employment and entrepreneurship through the Youth Employment Program. Challenges mentioned include measuring progress on the universal SDG agenda across different country contexts.

1. SDG 8 – Decent
Work and Economic
Growth

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 for
work of equal value

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. WHAT DOES THIS
MEAN FOR
SAMOA

8. TARGET 8.5
 Samoa Decent Work Country
Programme 2013-2016
 Priority 2 – Young women and men have
greater access to information and
employment services to support their
transitions from school to work e.g E-
platform YEP
 ILO Ratified Conventions:-
 C111 – Discrimination Convention
 C 100 – Equal Remuneration Convention

9. TARGET 8.3 & 8.6
 Samoa National Action Plan on YE
 Internship Programme
 Youth Employment Seminar Series
 Created an Youth Entrepreneurship
Award
 Green Works Youth Contractors
 Youth Employment Programme (YEP)
 Increase employability of youth.
 Village-based youth entrepreneurship
& empowerment of youth in the
informal economy.

10. TARGET 8.7
 Rapid Assessment Survey on Street
Vendors in Apia – November 2014
 Survey Recommendation
 Scoping Study Findings
 Child Labour Taskforce Group
 ILO CONVENTIONS RATIFIED
 C29 – Forced Labour
 C105 – Abolition of Force Labour
 C138 – Minimum Age Convention
 C 182 – Worst form of Child labour

11.  Samoa National Tripartite Forum
 Protect Labour rights
 Promote safe & secure working
environment
 Enforcement of LERA & OSH
 Strengthen tripartite capacity
 Samoa National Employment Policy
 Integrating productive employment
at all levels to support the creation
of more and better jobs
 Samoa Labour Migration Policy.
TARGET 8.8

12. TARGET 8.b
 SNAP on YE
 Green Works on Green Jobs
 SNEP
 Labour Market Demand & Supplies
 Labour Market Institution
 YEP
 Increasing youth employability &
empower youth in the informal economy

13. LOOKING AHEAD

14.  Target 8.2 – YEP focus on establishing of the
Incubator (Youth Centre) to provide trainings for
youth entrepreneurship to increase employability and
productivity.
 Target 8.4 increase of youth engagement in
Green Works for Green Jobs with respect to
programmes develop by ILO on climate change
impact.
 Target 8.9 encourage the more opportunities for
youth to attend Vocational community course that
should offer either by the community (handicrafts,
carving) or by vocational school after high schools.
 Target 8.10 mainstreaming of the macro-
finance for youth entrepreneurship with beginning &
establishment of their business

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

16. 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

17. FAAFETAI TELE LAVA