Macroeconomic and Sectoral Policies for a Sustained Job Recovery

To address the socio-economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries announced and implemented unprecedented measures to boost the economy and employment. The current fallout from the COVID 19 and other crises and incomplete and lagging labour market recoveries from other previous crises have created a keen interest among policymakers and social partners on how to mainstream jobs and decent work into recovery and development agendas, including through macroeconomic and sectoral policies. In this context, the International Training Centre of the ILO and the ILO Employment Policy Department have joined forces to organize this e-learning course, as a response to repeated request made by ILO’s constituents to strengthen the role of economic and sectoral policies as part of its mandate to promote employment and decent work. OBJECTIVES • Strengthening the capacities of policymakers and social partners in the design and implementation of economic, employment and sectoral policies and strategies to foster a robust and inclusive recovery • Providing a comprehensive hands-on overview of the policy instruments and analytical tools on how sectoral strategies and structural transformation occur and how they affects productive employment creation • Offering a better understanding on how macroeconomic frameworks and skills development systems support structural change and economic diversification • Providing a systematic overview of relevant economic and sectoral policies for decent work and inclusive growth CONTENT • Module 1: Labour market issues, trends and the policy challenge of recovery • Module 2: Macroeconomic support • Module 3: Gender-responsive macroeconomic policies • Module 4: Identifying promising sectors for decent jobs • Module 5: Skills development for structural transformation • Module 6: Implementing inclusive and sustainable sectoral strategies for building resilience