
Decent Work


- Improving individuals’ employability
- Developing policies for the labor market
- Supporting individuals towards entrepreneurship
- Improving job quality
- Facilitating women's’ access to employment and entrepreneurship
- Supporting the employability of vulnerable populations
Improving individuals’ employability
Developing policies for the labor market
Supporting individuals towards entrepreneurship
Improving job quality
Facilitating women's’ access to employment and entrepreneurship
Supporting the employability of vulnerable populations
Each year, 40 million people, the majority of them young Africans, enter the labor market, while work is being transformed by globalization and technological developments. Besides, 2 billion workers are in informal employment, and one worker dies every 15 seconds due to a work-related accident or illness.
AFD is investing to support economic activity and increase both the number and quality of jobs. Our aims: improve people’s standard of living, business productivity, private sector dynamism, social cohesion, trust in institutions and citizen participation. Developing decent work means defending the human value of work, strengthening the economy and the attractiveness of the territories and helping to build a fairer society by reducing inequalities.
This is why we are supporting:
- individuals’ career paths, from improving their employability through to their integration into the labor market
- changes in work through improved employment quality and professional equality, in particular between women and men.