Social Aspects of Work
Experience shows that growth can only contribute to broad-based poverty reduction and to achieving other Millennium Development Goals if it results in more people, particularly the poor, gaining access to reasonably-paid, socially acceptable employment ("decent work") and enables them to unleash their entrepreneurial potential. This is the criterion for the equal distribution of income and the participation of broad segments of the population in the market economy. Decent work sums up the aspirations of people in their working lives. It involves opportunities for work that is productive and delivers a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for families, better prospects for personal development and social integration, freedom for people to express their concerns, organize and participate in the decisions that affect their lives and equality of opportunity and treatment for all women and men. |
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Making economic Growth more Pro-Poor: Role of Employment & Social Protection May 2009 Author: DCD DAC (OECD) POVNET Policy Statement endorsed by DAC High level meeting of 27/28 May 09.
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Value Chain Development for Decent Work 2009 Author: Matthias L. Herr, Tapera J. Muzira, ILO This guide for development practitioners, government and private sector initiatives gives guidance on how to address the underlying causes of failures in the performance of market systems, rather than looking at symptoms in individual chains. This guide addresses Value Chain development from a market development perspective with a unique focus on how to achieve Decent Work.
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Brick by Brick - The Herculean Task of Cleaning up the Asian Brick Industry February 2008 Author: Urs Heierli, Sameer Maithel This case study tells the story of cleaning up the Asian brick industry by introducing the Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln (VSBK). The brick and construction industry holds an enormous energy-saving potential that is of tremendous relevance to climate change. In addition, this new technology can also change the lot of the millions of poor workers in this sector. Introducing better technologies and social standards is a win-win situation for the workers, for the environment and for the society as a whole.
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Decent Work: a Target to Achieve the MDGs January 2008 Author: Swiss Agency of Development and Cooperation, Employment and Income Division This focus note provides an excellent summary about the decent work agenda and its contributions to the Millenium Development Goals. It provides information about SDC's position and links to further reading.
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Social Standards in the Context of Employment and Income - Briefing Paper 2006 Author: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Employment and Income Division This briefing paper summarises the relevance of social standards in development cooperation. It describes what social standards exist and analyses the effects of Corporate Social Responsibility and Code of Conducts.
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Social standards in the context E+I - Freedom of Association and the Right to Collective Bargaining 2005 Author: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Employment and Income Division This fact sheet explains what freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining means, how the law and ILO regulations deal with this topic and what is being done to achieve implementation of freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining.
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Social standards in the context E+I - Elimination of discrimination in employment and occupation 2005 Author: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Employment and Income Division This fact sheet explains what discrimination with respect to employment and occupation means, how the law and ILO regulations deal with discrimination with respect to employment and occupation and what is being done against it.
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Social Standards in the Context of E+I - Effective Abolition of Child Labour 2005 Author: Swiss Agency of Development and Cooperation, Employment and Income Division This fact sheet explains what child labour is, how ILO regulations deal with forced labour and what is being done against it.
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Social standards in the context E+I - Elimination of all Forms of Forced or Compulsory Labour 2005 Author: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Employment and Income Division This fact sheet explains what forced and compulsory labour is, how ILO regulations deal with forced labour and what is being done against it.
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