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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
Think piece
What is not green about market systems development?
Insights from the ACCEL Africa Project
Pushing the frontier of financial innovation to combat child labour
International Labour Conference, 2007
Resolutions and conclusions concerning the promotion of sustainable enterprises
Most recent publications
Adapt-Mitigate-Thrive (AMT) Diagnostic for Serbia’s e-waste sector
Formalization of micro and small enterprises and their employees: Experiences from Nepal
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
Cooperative, Social and Solidarity Economy
Social finance
Development cooperation
Projects
Programme
Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transition in Indonesia
EU4Employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Harnessing the green and digital transitions
Training resources
View our training courses on enterprises and sustainable development offered by the International Training Centre of the ILO
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