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Systems Change Initiative (SCI) for productive employment

Project details

1 February 2022 - 31 December 2025

USD 3,200,000

Sweden, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

GLO/21/58/SWE

Project team: sci@ilo.org

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At the Systems Change Initiative (SCI), our mission is to drive systems change for job growth and improved job quality. To achieve this, the SCI supports field projects and teams to:

  • Understand which sectors have the highest potential to create more and better jobs;
  • Map out the key constraints to more and better jobs within these sectors along with their root causes; and
  • Identify, design and run interventions which stakeholders can run in the long run.

Rooted in analysis, adaptability and local partnerships, our MSD for employment approach promotes decent work that is sustainable, scalable, and inclusive.

The project works both in specific projects as well as with a global mandate to enhance knowledge and capacity in the market systems approach for employment for various organizations. It also puts in focus how a systemic approach to employment can be applied in the context of achieving environment and trade outcomes, and understanding how to better measure job quality. 

Find out more here: What is a systems approach?

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A Systemic Approach to Creating More and Better Jobs
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Essentials for market systems development and decent work training

Essentials for market systems development and decent work training

This training provides foundational knowledge to using the market systems development (MSD) approach for promoting job growth and improving job quality.

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See also

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