TICAD 8 side event
Scaling-up action and investments on job creation and social protection in Africa
The ILO in collaboration with the African Union held a high-level policy dialogue on the Global Accelerator for Jobs and Social Protection. Government, worker’s, and employer’s representatives discussed together with development partners opportunities for expanding domestic fiscal space and forging partnerships for African countries to boost job creation and accelerate the extension of social protection coverage.
Abidjan (ILO News)- Decent jobs and social protection, hand in hand, powerfully contribute to reducing poverty, exclusion, and inequality while enhancing political stability and social cohesion. To promote a job-rich recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN Secretary-General launched the Global Accelerator for Jobs and Social Protection in September 2021. The Global Accelerator aims to help direct development financing towards the creation of 400 million decent jobs, including in the green, digital and care economies, and extend social protection to 4 billion people currently without coverage.
On the side-lines of the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development TICAD 8, the virtual high-level policy dialogue brought together heads of Government, policymakers, workers’ and employers’ leaders from the continent, heads of international organizations and multilateral development to identify practical options for financing integrated policies that accelerate decent jobs creation, the extension of social protection and a just transition.
On the side-lines of the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development TICAD 8, the virtual high-level policy dialogue brought together heads of Government, policymakers, workers’ and employers’ leaders from the continent, heads of international organizations and multilateral development to identify practical options for financing integrated policies that accelerate decent jobs creation, the extension of social protection and a just transition.