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SDC's web-platform for employment and income practitioners
This web-platform is SDC's instrument for the exchange between development practitioners working towards the creation of employment and income. It provides access to discussions, news, information, documentation, project examples and working aids on various thematic areas.
 http://www.sdc-employment-income.ch/

Employment and income

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Unemployment and underemployment remain the most serious development problems facing partner countries of the SDC. Only if people have access to productive, reasonably paid employment that enables them to earn an income, can global poverty be sustainably reduced and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) be achieved.

SDC is committed to approaches and methods for economic development that promote socially and ecologically sustainable economic growth and involve in particular the poor disadvantaged segments of the population – whether as employees, producers or consumers.

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As the driving economic force, the private sector is accorded a key role in developing and transition countries.
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Promoting measures that provide poor households, farmers and small enterprises with access to financial services improves their involvement in economic life and reduces their vulnerability.
E_I_website_SD.jpg Vocational Skills Development
Vocational skills development aims to create opportunities for productive employment and access to reasonably paid work for all

Additional Information and Documents

Documents
  • Employment and Income - Medium-Term Orientation 2009-2012
    Download (PDF, 529 KB) :  [en]  
  • A Synthesis of the Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) Approach
    First of three documents
    Download (PDF, 1604 KB) :  [en]   [fr]   [es]  
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  • The Operational Guide for the Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) Approach
    Third of three documents
    Download (PDF, 7243 KB) :  [en]   [fr]   [es]  
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  • Perspectives on the Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) Approach
    Second of three documents
    Download (PDF, 2220 KB) :  [en]   [fr]   [es]  
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External Links

  • SDC's web-platform for employment and income practitioners

    SDC employees, partners and interested parties will find key documents and additional information regarding employment and income on this platform.
    http://www.sdc-employment-income.ch/en/Home