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Guidance on how to address decent rural employment in FAO country activities
This guidance document will: Introduce the concepts of rural employment and decent work (RE&DW). Acknowledge the centrality of RE&DW for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
• Affirm FAO’s comparative advantages in dealing with RE&DW and identify the main areas of intervention
• Provide a summary of the results of FAO’s “Self-Assessment on Employment and Decent Work
• Suggest examples of concrete actions that FAO country offices could consider to promote RE&DW w ithin their existing work programmes
• Encourage the creation of links with International Labour Organization (ILO) field offices and facilitate partnerships and the identification of synergies.
Date
2010
Publisher
FAO
Region
Global
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