Swisscontact Position paper on Green Skills and Jobs
🌱 New Swisscontact Position Paper: An Inclusive Green Transition – Aligning Skills and Jobs for Impact
Swisscontact has published a new position paper outlining its approach to advancing an inclusive green transition — with a strong focus on aligning green skills and green jobs with real labour-market demand.
The paper highlights that the green transition is less about creating entirely new sectors and more about transforming existing ones, and sets out Swisscontact’s concrete ambitions, including:
- 30% of jobs created or retained to be green or greener
- 50% of people trained to acquire green skills
- 50% of projects to actively promote green skills or green employment
It also presents a systems-based perspective, emphasizing that skills development alone is not sufficient — meaningful impact requires aligning workforce capabilities with market demand, private sector incentives, and local ecosystems. Practical project examples from Ghana, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Laos, and Mozambique illustrate how this plays out in different contexts, alongside Swisscontact’s value proposition for partners and donors committed to a just and inclusive transition
If you’re working on climate, skills, employment, MSD, or inclusive growth, this paper offers concrete insights and reflections that may be highly relevant for programme design and policy dialogue.
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