The war in Ukraine comes at a time when African countries are still struggling to recover from the destabilizing effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic. It is threatening to derail development progress in African countries, pushing the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the aspirations of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 further out of reach.
In Malawi, investment in renewable energy has helped grow a dried fruit business that’s giving women financial freedom and new opportunities.
Results from an EU-commissioned survey reveal how the pandemic is impacting the wildlife tourism sector.
Webinar: EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities: Multidimensional inequality in Western Africa
As part of the ILO’s Women at Work Centenary Initiative, the ILO has produced this report that highlights key gender gaps and obstacles to decent work for women. Read it here.
There are 1.8 billion young people aged 15-29 in the world today. Most have to contend with a precarious labour market, with the prevalence of unemployment, underemployment and informal jobs. If these young people are to successfully transition into adulthood, with secure livelihoods, youth and especially youth employment must be a key priority of the development agenda.
370 million people in over 90 countries identify themselves as being indigenous. They represent humanity in all its diversity but they all have in common the fact that they are the most excluded, discriminated, threatened and often the poorest communities worldwide. The EU is supporting tools and initiatives to understand better indigenous peoples needs in order for them to claim their rights and not be left behind.
A regional project in five African countries, co funded by the EU and jointly implemented by 14 government and civil society organisations, interviewed 22 000 domestic workers and their employers. Through advocacy campaigns, governments agreed to legalize and integrate millions of domestic workers in accordance with ILO Conventions.
A new four-year project supported by the EU kicked-off in Brussels, bringing together key stakeholders, vowing to make cotton production sustainable, free from child and forced labour.
Deadline to apply is 15 February 2019.
The VET Toolbox promotes demand driven and inclusive vocational education and training by working with partner countries to strengthen their capacity to implement VET and labour market reforms, enhancing labour market relevance and employability for all.
The EU Emergency Trust Fund for stability and addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in Africa, aims to increase economic and employment opportunities and inclusion for youth and vulnerable groups.
In West Africa, more than two million children work in cocoa plantations. The European Commission gathered stakeholders at a workshop and produced a report with presentations, discussions and recommendations that is now available online.
Interview with Marjeta Jager, Deputy Director-General for International Cooperation and Development.
An initiative of the European Commission seeks to enhance knowledge and understanding of economic and social inequalities in order to better respond to this complex development challenge.
Cocoa, an unsavoury sweet? Final Report
Launch of the Child Labour and Forced Labour in Cotton and Garment Value chains, 20 November 2018.
Protecting African Domestic Workers - Using surveys to integrate vulnerable populations
This year’s Green Growth and Sustainable Development (GGSD) Forum will focus on investment, innovation and employment aspects of the fast-growing ocean-based industries, together with policies to protect and sustainably use marine and ocean resources and ecosystems. It will explore how economic development and conservation needs can be balanced successfully through innovations in established and emerging ocean industries, as well as marine spatial planning instruments.
The 13th Asia Pacific Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (13th APRSCP) is themed 'Enabling Sustainable Consumption and Production Towards Achieving Green Growth'. It is co-hosted by the Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production and ENSEARCH, and will be held on 24-26 October 2017 in Melaka. The 13th APRSCP is endorsed and supported by the Melaka State Government. For registration and more information, please visit the Ensearch website (http://www.ensearch.org/aprscp/) or contact Jenny/Nabiha at po@ensearch.org.
The DEVCO Environment Week took place from 6-10 February 2017. Two back-to-back seminars were organised: from 6-8 February, ‘DEVCO Thematic Seminar on Environment - Implementing the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’; and from 9-10 February, ‘Conservation, development and security’ (co-organised with DG ENV and EEAS).
