Employment and decent work are at the core of sustainable growth. Investing in people goes hand in hand with economic growth and investment.
Investment allows a country’s private sector to boost its development and competitiveness, which in turn creates jobs and deepens trade integration.
At the same time, the economy needs to take into account the green transition and the efforts to be made for countering climate change. It needs to foster responsible consumption and production and promote sustainable lifestyles.
Programmes
We implement programmes around the world wherever assistance is needed. We tailor our support to fit the region or country being helped. Programmes with a global reach allow the EU to provide similar support to countries facing similar problems.
DeSIRA: Development Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture
The DeSIRA initiative aims to contribute to climate-relevant, productive and sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems in low and middle-income countries.
The Sustainable Cocoa Initiative
Latest news
Afghanistan: EU reinforces basic needs support to the Afghan people with a new €142.8 million package
The European Commission adopted a new funding package worth €142.8 million to strengthen basic services and sustain livelihoods for Afghans, with a focus on vulnerable populations including displaced or displacement-affected people.
Global Gateway Forum: EU signs an agreement to scale up early childhood development in Rwanda
At the Global Gateway Forum in Brussels, ahead of her bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Ngirente, Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen and Minister of Education of Rwanda Gaspard Twagirayezu signed an agreement worth €50 million to support early childhood development.
Global Gateway Forum: Commission and KfW sign guarantee agreement to enhance local currency financing in Africa
Today, the European Commission and the German development bank KfW signed an agreement for the African Local Currency Bond guarantee programme that will enhance access to long-term financing in local currency for African local businesses.
Latest stories
“Girls should be able to focus only on their studies”: how activism changes girls’ lives in Mozambique
Activists in Mozambique are making an effort to ensure girls have the right to continue their studies to protect them from child marriage. This is done in the framework of Spotlight Initiative, a strategic partnership between the EU and the UN.
#FashionChecker: Calling for a living wage for garment workers and a more transparent supply chain
The European Union is committed to making value chains in the garment sector more sustainable and is supporting a broad range of initiatives to promote decent work and reduce vulnerabilities for garment workers across the world.
2021 was International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour - it’s time to step up to our commitments and end child labour for good!
Every child deserves a peaceful and secure childhood and the chance to go to school. This is still being denied to around 152 million children around the world who are engaged in child labour.