Sustainable enterprises
Sustainable enterprises are key to ensuring job and wealth creation, a just transition to environmental sustainability and inclusive economies and societies. Around the world, companies and consumers are increasingly looking for products and services that have a positive impact on the community, the environment and society.
The ILO works to support and promote enterprises development because Decent Work happens, or doesn’t happen, at the workplace, in enterprises. Without productive and sustainable enterprises there is no Decent Work. Without Decent Work through enterprises there is no social justice, peace or prosperity.
The ILO collaborates with its tripartite constituency of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations to advance enterprise development in a manner that aligns enterprise growth with sustainable development objectives and the creation of productive employment and decent work.
News and articles
Recent developments in the promotion of the social and solidarity economy: Highlights for Africa
The African Union adopts a ten-year strategy on the Social and Solidarity Economy
Publications
Policy Brief: Migration and climate change in the Arab region
Enhancing the social dimension in transition finance: towards a just transition
Strengthening women’s cooperatives: The experience of SEWA Cooperative Federation
Strategic priorities
MSME policies for enabling environment and decent work
Sustainable investment
Greening enterprises
Responsible business conduct
Key areas of work
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Multinational enterprises
Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy
Social finance
Development cooperation
Projects
Social safety nets
ILO/Japan Fund for Building Social Safety Nets in Asia and the Pacific (SSN Fund)
Sustainable investments in African agriculture
Training resources
View our training courses on enterprises and sustainable development offered by the International Training Centre of the ILO
Related topics
Green jobs
Just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies
Supply chains
Formalization