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To what extent has the ICDD's research contributed to a better understanding of the sources of decent work deficits and to the development of appropriate counter strategies? Did its training efforts produce experts that are not only committed to achieve decent work for all but also have obtained the skills to do so?
Given the deadline of the MDG in 2015, it is also time to assess the progress the international community has achieved in realizing MDG 1. The most recent MDG report claims that the original goal of halving the proportion of people living in extreme has been met ahead of schedule. But is the poverty indicator, $1.25 a day, appropriate for measuring extreme poverty? On the job front, even the official numbers are disappointing. The employment-to-population ratio has dropped since 2007; the gender gap in employment and pay persists, and the young people have borne the brunt of the financial crisis.
In September 2013, the United Nations began to discuss the post MDG 2015 agenda. Global Sustainable Development Goals seems to be the new slogan. The emphasis in the field of employment is placed on social protection, skill training, better business climate (plus a move to large-scale sustainable agriculture) and most of all on growth. But will more skills and a better business climate really address the concerns of small-holders, land-less agricultural workers, and the great mass of urban dwellers in the informal economy? And what about care work?
The following issues will be addressed:
- Reasons for the failure to reach target 2 “decent work for all”.
- Strategies that have or that might work to narrow the decent work gap.
- A Post MDG 2015 Agenda for decent work and livelihoods with a particular emphasis on rural areas.
- Reflections on the “development promise” implicit in the Post MDG debate.
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
07/04/2014 - 07/05/2014
Event venue:
Universität Kassel
Fachbereich Agrarwissenschaft/Witzenhausen
Zeichensaal
Steinstraße 11
37213 Witzenhausen
Hessen
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Economics / business administration, Politics, Zoology / agricultural and forest sciences
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
03/04/2014
Sender/author:
Sebastian Mense
Department:
Kommunikation, Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event46535
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