Decent Work and Economic Growth

Targets:

8.1 Sustainable Economic Growth

8.2 Diversify, Innovate and Upgrade for Economic Productivity

8.3 Promote Policies To Support Job Creation and Growing Enterprises

8.4 Improve Resource Efficiency in Consumption and Production

8.5 Full Employment and Decent Work with Equal Pay

8.6 Promote Youth Employment, Education and Training

8.7 End Modern Slavery, Trafficking and Child Labour

8.8 Protect Labour Rights and Promote Safe Working Environment

8.9 Promote Beneficial and Sustainable Tourism

8.A Universal Access to Banking, Insurance and Financial Services

8.B Increase Aid for Trade Support

8.C Develop a Global Youth Employment Strategy

Decent work is a concept developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) that refers to
employment that is productive, fair, secure, and empowering workers and their families. Women,
migrant, young, temporary and racialized workers are most affected by precarious employment.

How to build a decent work for all:

- Create new and better jobs and stimulate self-employment (demand side)
- Improve the skills and work-readiness of youths and women (supply side)
- Matching supply and demand, by providing employment services.
- Invest in social protection especially for youths and women, skills, innovation, and infrastructure
- Know your rights at work
- Organize a mentoring program

How to make an economic growth:

- Support local producers and facilitate them

- Innovations and transformations
- Donations
What is:

Modern Slavery or Human Trafficking: Modern slavery is the severe exploitation of other people for
personal or commercial gain, such as forced labour, forced and early marriage, sex exploitation, debt
bondage/bonded labour, human trafficking, slavery, etc.

- Roughly a quarter of all victims of modern slavery are children.

How to end modern slavery:

- Raise awareness
- Support anti-slavery organizations
- Write to your government representative
- Sign petition