Stephen Pursey Multilateral Cooperation Department ILO April 2014 MYWORLD UN Global Survey Main outcomes of post2015 UN consultations People need better job opportunities MyWorld survey Proportion ID: 472866
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The global development agenda beyond 2015: employment and decent work for all
Stephen PurseyMultilateral Cooperation DepartmentILO( April 2014Slide2
MYWORLD UN Global SurveySlide3
Main outcomes of post-2015 UN consultations: People need better job opportunities
MyWorld survey: Proportion of people from each country who selected jobs as one oftheir
priorities in the post-2015 agendaSlide4
Thinking about jobs: how can we make people’s concerns central in the new agenda?
Recent trends in global economy and implications for employment and growth Designing a new comprehensive, universal and integrated sustainable development frameworkStrategies for employment and
growth
Policy
mechanisms to promote more equitable and sustainable employment trends Slide5
Scale of the Global Jobs Challenge
Crisis-related jobs gap widened to 62 million jobs lost since 2008Slide6
Mixed trends in reduction of working poverty
From 55.2 per cent in 2000, the share of $2 a day working poor declined to 32.1 per cent in 2012, but remained at nearly 60 per cent in LDCs. Progress uneven across regions, with more than 87 per cent of reduction in East Asia. More than half developing world workforce self-employed or unpaid family workers – likely to be informal.15 per cent of developing world’s total workforce still living on below $1.25 a day - nearly 400 million workers - two thirds in South Asia and Sub Saharan African - mainly in agriculture.Slide7
Two-thirds of Africans working but living in poverty
Incidence of working poverty remains high in AfricaTotal working poor rising to around 200 million workers Slide8
Employment Transformation
Movement of working women and men from less productive work that barely yields a living, to better jobs. Economic transformation helps create opportunities for decent work, and more and better jobs feeds back into growth dynamics making it more inclusive and sustainable.
Access to safe, productive and fairly remunerated work is a key vehicle for individuals and families to gain self-esteem, a sense of belonging to a community and a way to make a productive contribution. Slide9
Jobs and environmental, economic and social sustainability challenges
Transforming consumption, production and employment patterns onto trajectories that do not damage our environment.Developing countries exports to high income countries much
less buoyant
requiring
a reorientation of growth drivers towards national markets and South
South
trade.
Most higher income and some middle income countries moving into an era of population ageing.
World labour force increasing by over 40 million per year, but gradually declining. To keep pace with the growth, which mainly in developing
world, close the crisis jobs gap,
some
670
million new jobs needed by 2030
,more
to raise female participation
.Slide10
Employment and social policies to manage transformations
New policies to crowd in investment in the real economy, - not just lower interest rates, but dedicated finance for smaller enterprises, support to innovation and ITC, green industries, and labour-intensive public infrastructure programmes in the poorest countries.Skills for youth, women and for industries and workers in transitions.
Well-designed policies and institutions, including minimum wages and employment protection laws, which build fair and efficient labour markets and smooth formalization.
Investment in social protection and, for the poorest countries, social protection floors offering a basic set of income and health guarantees. Slide11
Employment and social policies to manage transformations (continued)
A focus on gender equality, through for example investment in early child hood day care facilities and stepped up anti-discrimination legislation.A sufficient tax base, progressive tax systems and restraints to tax-motivated illicit financial flows, in order to generate public revenues to support productive and social investments.Remedying the dearth of information about the numbers, tenure and quality of jobs. Improvement in the collection and availability of labour market statistics promotes employment creation because of its implications for accountability, transparency and effectiveness of policy-making. Slide12
Decent Work and Development: where is the UN today?
MDGs target 1b “Full and productive Employment and Decent Work for All” – UN and ILO Post 2015 Reflection Open Working Group Negotiations ImplementationSlide13
Messages from the post-2015 global
thematic consultation on growth and employmentAdopting a stand-alone goal on employment
in the post-2015 agenda with clear and measurable indicators.
Decent
jobs
for the poor and most vulnerable as a pre-requisite for sustained inclusive growth.
Addressing
the structural causes of unemployment and promoting
economic diversification
and recognizing that governments must be responsible for driving structural transformation through coherent policies.
Development-friendly
macroeconomic policies
.
Expanding
social protection systems
as a crucial policy tools to reducing poverty and inequality and fostering social cohesion.
Combining
expanded social protection with
employment generation
programmes
especially targeting women and low-skilled workers.
Strengthening
social dialogue and the voice of workers
so as to improve working conditions and ensure fair distribution of benefits.
Complementing
official development assistance
with reforms in the
international trade, finance and technology transfer
systems
http://
www.worldwewant2015.org/node/392756Slide14
Key reports on Post-2015
The report of the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP) recommended an illustrative global goal on "Creating jobs, sustainable livelihoods and equitable growth". The Secretary-General’s report to the 68th session of the UNGA on the MDGs in September 2013 noted that
inclusive growth, decent employment and social protection
had been essential to drive progress on the existing
MDGs
The SDSN report suggest a development goal with a target on
decent work
and a goal on learning with a target on that
all youth transition effectively into the
labour
market
, including
an indicator
on NEETsSlide15
The inter-governmental process (OWG):
Where do we stand so far? MDG format: single set of a limited
number
of action-
oriented
, concise and
easy
-to-
communicate
sustainable
development
goals (
SDGs
)
Aspirational
/Transformative
Universal
–
ie
applicable to all countries,
developed
and
developing
Measurable
–
to
ensure
monitoring and accountabilityIntegrated – ie balancing economic, social and environmental dimensions of
sustainability
National
flexibility
–
eg
in setting
targets
and
indicators
that
respect national
priorities
and
circumstances
Slide16
Towards a new set of goals: 19 focus areas identified by the OWG
Poverty eradication.Food security and nutritionHealth and population dynamics
Education
Gender equality and women’s empowerment
Water
and
sanitation
Energy
Economic growth
Industrialization
Infrastructure
E
mployment
and decent work for
all
Promoting
equality
Sustainable
cities and human
settlements
Climate
Sustainable consumption and production
Marine resources, oceans and seas
Ecosystems and biodiversity
Means of implementation
Peaceful and non-violent societies, capable institutionsSlide17
Transforming the global development trajectory by focussing on jobs
Working out of povertySustainable jobs – social, economic and environmental dimensionsRole of employers’ and workers’ organizations: who will implement the new agenda?Building institutions for inclusive labour marketsNational strategies within a global framework for cooperation and
coordination
2015 UN connecting to “We
the
Peoples” Slide18