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Green Jobs: Facts and Figures Green Jobs Facts and Figures. Green Jobs Challenges: Environmental and Decent Work
Report on LED Nepal Knowledge Sharing Workshop - April 2010
RadioDEL: Cafes diferenciado, territorios y genero El Comité de Cafés Diferenciados es un grupo de productores de café guatemalteco, comprometidos con la calidad y la sostenibilidad del cultivo. Esta agrupación es parte de la Asociación guatemalteca de Exportadores (AGEXPORT), y fue creada con el fin de promover los cafés especiales a nivel internacional.
Backbone Strategy: EC reform of Technical Cooperation We know that keeping abreast of latest European Commission policy is time consuming. So, to lighten your load, capacity4dev.eu has produced a fun video version of The Guidelines on Making Technical Cooperation More Effective. Watch and learn! http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/pushed-time-watch-guidelines-online
RadioDEL: La Brujula de la Competitividad Local Una metodología participativa de gestionar y monitorear iniciativas de desarrollo territorial. Se llama la “Brújula de la Competitividad” y está basada en el Cuadro de Mando Integral (Balanced Scorecard en inglés).
The Enter-Growth Project Sri Lanka The ILO Enterprise for pro-poor growth project (Enter-Growth, 2005-2009) has had significant success in achieving local economic development in four Sri Lankan Districts. A major aspect of Enter-Growth's success is to have facilitated systemic changes in the markets that poor people interact with, which in turn has led to wider and more sustainable impact. To do this, Enter-Growth has followed a market development approach. Enter-Growth is, in fact, one of only a few pioneering projects internationally, which has attempted to deliver a more systemic approach to private sector development.
Strategies for LED: Focus on Green Jobs, 10-21 May 2010 - Turin, Italy What social and economic opportunities can arise from greener local systems? What are the key drivers of green employment? How can local communities invest to improve the quality of their environment and generate decent jobs at the local level? What participatory mechanisms can be used to foster sustainable social, economic, environmental and institutional development at the local, provincial or regional level? These are some of the questions that will be addressed during the Seminar to be held from 10 - 21 May 2010 at the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin, Italy. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ¿Qué oportunidades económicas y sociales pueden surgir de sistemas de economía local más verdes? ¿Cuáles son los sectores claves del empleo verde? ¿Cómo descubrir las oportunidades económicas y sociales de sistemas locales más verdes? ¿Cómo pueden las comunidades locales invertir para mejorar la calidad de su entorno y al mismo tiempo generar empleo decente a nivel local? ¿Qué mecanismos participativos se pueden utilizar para promover un desarrollo sostenible desde el punto de vista ambiental, social, económico e institucional a nivel local, provincial o regional? Estas son algunas de las cuestiones que se abordarán en el seminario “DEL y Empleos Verdes: Estrategias locales para una economía verde" que tendrá lugar del 10 al 21 de mayo de 2010 en el Centro Internacional de Formación (CIF) de la OIT en Turín, Italia.
Case study China: Local Economic Policies in Guangdong Province and Employment Promotion under the Crisis
Milestones in a process of innovation, change and development TheDr. Jörg-Meyer Stamer 50th Birthday Anthology
Routes out of the crisis - Strategies for local employment recovery, skills development and social protection in Asia. 1-3 December 2009, Malang, Indonesia The overall aim of the meeting is strengthen the capacity of constituents, policy makers and practitioners at local level to undertake effective employment recovery and skills strategies in response to the financial and economic crisis. Specifically, the meeting should contribute to: I. Increased understanding of the employment and skills impact in relation to the crisis; II. Improved capacity for the design of effective local employment and skills strategies to support existing national responses to the crisis
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability A non-profit association of local governments, ICLEI works worldwide with cities, towns and counties to promote sustainable development. The website provides a comprehensive overview of the 1000+ partners and their programmes, plus a multilingual (EN, FR, PR, SP) resource bank on local sustainable development case studies, initiatives, reports and useful links.