ILO and the Global Goals (The 2030 development agenda)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

#1- End poverty in all its forms everywhere

1. The ILO supports efforts to cut poverty in half by 2030 by promoting decent jobs and expanding social protection.
2. Currently, more than 4 billion people lack any social protection.
3. The ILO helps countries improve their social programmes and aims for universal coverage by 2030.
4. The ILO promotes job-focused recovery in conflict zones, aiming for social cohesion and preventing further strife.
5. Overall, the ILO strives to ensure decent work opportunities, social protection, and just transitions for everyone.

#2- End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

1. The ILO works to tackle informality in the agricultural economy, while helping farmers to double their productivity by 2030 through skills-building activities and support for cooperatives.
2. It also promotes rural job growth through infrastructure projects like road building, irrigation, and market access for small-scale farmers.

#3- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

1. The ILO supports countries to strengthen HIV prevention among workers and equal access to care, treatment, social protection, and support.
2. It also advises on occupational safety and health measures and on expanding healthcare coverage for the Universal Healthcare Coverage goal by 2030.
3. The ILO has set and adopted 14 International Labour Standards for the safe use of industrial chemicals to protect workers and consumers.

#4- Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning

1. The ILO prioritizes education, skills training and life-long learning across a number of programmes.
2. This includes the elimination of child labour and a special emphasis on skills for youth, women and vulnerable groups.
3. In 2023 the ILO adopted a new International Labour Standard on quality apprenticeships with a view to improving school to work transitions.
4. The ILO promotes decent work for teachers, and labour rights across the sector.

#5- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

1. The ILO promotes equality of opportunity and pay and works to enhance equal employment opportunities through measures that also aim to improve women’s access to education, skills training and healthcare.
2. It takes account of women’s role in the care economy through work–family balance measures and incentives for the provision of childcare and parental leave.
3. A number of International Labour Standards are designed specifically to improve gender equality and Convention 190 seeks to tackle violence and harassment in all its forms.

#6- Ensure access to water and sanitation for all

1. An estimated three out of four jobs are heavily or moderately dependent on water.
2. Access to improved drinking water and sanitation facilitates job creation and a healthy, educated and productive workforce which is the foundation for growth.

#7- Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

1. The ILO promotes improvements in energy efficiency and enhanced access to energy for businesses as a way of stimulating the creation of decent new jobs.
2. The ILO’s Green Jobs programme helps businesses transition to lower-carbon energy sources as a means of stimulating the creation of new, environmentally friendly jobs.
3. The ILO supports the creation of green enterprises, particularly in developing countries, through training programmes that teach young entrepreneurs how to start and run green businesses.

#9- Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

1. The ILO has a long history of providing sustainable approaches to local and community infrastructure development in ways that spur the creation of decent jobs.
2. The ILO promotes inclusive and sustainable industrialization throughout the world through expert policy advice geared towards the creation of decent jobs.
3. The ILO’s value-chain development methodologies are state of the art tools for job creation, particularly in the case of small-scale enterprises.

#10- Reduce inequality within and among countries

1. The ILO aims help boost income growth for the poorest 40% of the world’s population by promoting decent work for all and eliminating workplace discrimination.
2. Its Decent Work Agenda and country programs focus on non-discrimination and gender equality, involving governments, employers, and workers in policymaking.
3. The ILO also studies the impact of financial market fluctuations on workers and advocates for fair globalization.
4. It guides countries in crafting beneficial migration policies and works to lower remittance costs for migrants.

#11- Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

1. ILO projects in several developing countries help to stimulate the creation of decent jobs by providing affordable housing to low-income communities.
2. The ILO promotes social dialogue in the public transportation sector as well as the safety and health of public transport workers.
3. The ILO Green Jobs initiatives help businesses in least-developed countries use local materials to build safe and sustainable homes and workplaces.

#12- Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

1. The ILO is part of a UN group focused on sustainable consumption and production.
2. It sets standards for safe chemical and waste management in workplaces, aiming to limit environmental impact.
3. Through social dialogue, the ILO encourages businesses to adopt and report on sustainable practices.
4. It focuses on enhancing skills in developing countries to promote sustainable development and collaborates with the hospitality sector to monitor sustainability while fostering decent jobs.

#13- Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

1. The ILO’s Green Jobs Programme promotes a just transition to resource efficient and low-carbon societies.
2. This means promoting policies for decent green job creation and access to skills training for youth and those who need to change jobs as action on climate change moves forward and social protection measures to buffer transitions.
3. The ILO also leads on the global Climate Action for Jobs Initiative that aims to deliver decent jobs and advance social justice.

4. SDGs, Targets, and Indicators

   SDGs	Targets	Indicators
   #1 – End poverty in all its forms everywhere	Cut poverty in half by 2030	Number of people living in poverty
   #2 – End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture	Double farmers’ productivity by 2030	Productivity of small-scale farmers
   #3 – Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages	Strengthen HIV prevention among workers	HIV infection rates among workers
   #4 – Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning	Eliminate child labor	Number of children engaged in child labor
   #5 – Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls	Promote equal employment opportunities for women	Gender wage gap
   #6 – Ensure access to water and sanitation for all	Improve access to drinking water and sanitation	Percentage of population with access to drinking water and sanitation
   #7 – Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all	Promote energy efficiency and access to energy	Energy consumption per capita
   #9 – Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation	Promote sustainable industrialization	Number of sustainable industries
   #10 – Reduce inequality within and among countries	Boost income growth for the poorest 40% of the population	Income growth for the poorest 40%
   #11 – Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable	Provide affordable housing to low-income communities	Percentage of population with access to affordable housing
   #12 – Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns	Promote sustainable practices in businesses	Number of businesses adopting sustainable practices
   #13 – Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts	Promote policies for decent green job creation	Number of green jobs created
   #14 – Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources	Formalize fishing jobs and ensure good working conditions	Percentage of fishing jobs formalized
   #15 – Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss	Transition from informal to formal economy in the forestry sector	Percentage of forestry jobs in the formal economy
   #16 – Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies	Protect human and labor rights	Number of labor rights violations reported
   #17 – Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development	Support development cooperation programs	Number of active development cooperation programs

   1. Which SDGs are addressed or connected to the issues highlighted in the article?

   • #1 – End poverty in all its forms everywhere
   • #2 – End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
   • #3 – Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
   • #4 – Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
   • #5 – Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
   • #6 – Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
   • #7 – Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
   • #9 – Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
   • #10 – Reduce inequality within and among countries
   • #11 – Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
   • #12 – Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
   • #13 – Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
   • #14 – Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
   • #15 – Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
   • #16 – Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
   • #17 – Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

   2. What specific targets under those SDGs can be identified based on the article’s content?

   • Cut poverty in half by 2030
   • Double farmers’ productivity by 2030
   • Strengthen HIV prevention among workers
   • Eliminate child labor
   • Promote equal employment opportunities for women
   • Improve access to drinking water and sanitation
   • Promote energy efficiency and access to energy
   • Promote sustainable industrialization
   • Boost income growth for the poorest 40% of the population
   • Provide affordable housing to low-income communities
   • Promote sustainable practices in businesses
   • Promote policies for decent green job creation
   • Formalize fishing jobs and ensure good working conditions
   • Transition from informal to formal economy in the forestry sector

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     Source: ilo.org

      

     

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