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Job Creation and Enterprise Development department - Programme Objectives
With a view to creating decent work for women and men, the aim of this programme is to assist governments, employers, workers and other groups concerned with job creation and enterprise development to:
- Identify and implement policies and legal frameworks that foster competitive and economically viable small enterprises and cooperatives
- Encourage management practices which:
- establish and maintain job quality, particularly within small enterprises
- social standards along supply chains
- promote socially sensitive enterprise restructuring;
- Foster economic opportunities for women as entrepreneurs, employees and members of cooperatives
- Design, develop and implement strategies to enhance the competitiveness and productivity of micro, small and cooperative enterprises
- Improve the access to business development and training services for micro- and small enterprises and cooperative enterprises
- Strengthen association building, workers' cooperatives, Indigenous peoples, and self-help organisations to generate quality employment particularly within the informal economy; and
- Promote decent employment through local economic development programmes
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