Building a better future and keeping the promises of the 2030 Agenda
The ILO and the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions
In addition to claiming more than 6.3 million lives, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented loss of jobs and livelihoods. This has exacerbated income insecurity around the world, particularly for the more than half of the global population without any access to social protection, including the 2 billion workers in the informal economy. The pandemic has contributed to increasing the financing gaps for social protection by at least 30 per cent, as countries have sought to mitigate the health and economic effects of the crisis, while revenues were falling due to lower growth and trade. Constrained by higher debt burdens, countries now face a difficult trade-off between increasing much-needed public investments to overcome the crisis, achieve a human-centred recovery and facilitate the structural transformations and just transitions that are necessary to achieve the SDGs and beyond, and, on the other hand, containing debt vulnerabilities.
In September 2021, the United Nations Secretary-General launched the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions, with the ambition of bringing together member States, international financial institutions, social partners, civil society and the private sector to help countries create 400 million decent jobs, including in the green, digital and care economies, and to extend social protection coverage to the 4 billion people currently excluded. At the initial stage, the Global Accelerator will be implemented in a selected number of pathfinder countries that have considerable potential and are committed to amplifying investments in jobs and social protection. Based on a solid human rights foundation, including a strong reference to international labour standards, and the systematic promotion of social dialogue and participation, the Global Accelerator proposes a coherent framework for action bringing together relevant policy solutions and the necessary investments through enhanced multilateral cooperation.
Learn more about the Implementation Strategy of the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions by selecting the relevant link under "Key resources".
A Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection is needed to channel national and international, public and private investments into social protection for the four billion people who fall outside any existing coverage and to create at least 400 million decent jobs, above all in the green and care economies."
ILO Director-General Guy Ryder
Latest developments:
- WEBINAR | IPPN Knowledge Café: Enabling SDG Acceleration through UN Joint Programming on Social Protection and Leave No One Behind. 17 May 2023, 08:00 - 09:00 (EDT). More information and to register here.
- High Level Meeting Builds Momentum for Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions
- Video: The Global Accelerator on Just and Social Protection for Just Transitions
- UN Secretary-General's remarks to the General Assembly Consultation on our Common Agenda/Summit of the Future
- Podcast: The Global Accelerator: What it is and what it does in the future of work
- ILO Director-General warns of threat to social justice at meeting with Chancellor Scholz and other international organization leaders
- ILO Director-General meets constituents on first visit to Belgium
- L'Accélérateur Mondial sur l'Emploi et la Protection Sociale pour des Transitions Justes – Sénégal
- Integrated Policy Practitioners' Network Knowledge Café: Towards Operationalizing the Global Accelerator for Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions
- Republic of Korea and the ILO partnership
- High-level session looks at Just Energy Transitions to accelerate achieving of the SDGs
- High-level meeting on the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions concludes with pledges of support and commitments for its implementation
- In case you missed the discussions on the Global Accelerator during the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly: Partnering for Action: Implementation of the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions, watch it here
Learn more about the Implementation Strategy of the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions by selecting the relevant link under "Key resources".