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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.
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Most recent publications
Decent Work and the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Japan: Twelve dialogues
A Market Systems Analysis on SMEs’ business incentives to contribute to social insurance schemes in Jordan
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

Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy

Social finance
Development cooperation

Projects
Social safety nets
ILO/Japan Fund for Building Social Safety Nets in Asia and the Pacific (SSN Fund)
UNEP, ILO, UNDP, UNIDO, UNITAR
Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) in Asia
Training resources

View our training courses on enterprises and sustainable development offered by the International Training Centre of the ILO
Related topics

Green jobs
Just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies

Supply chains

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