Strengthening productive capacity of low-income groups

ILO advises governments on the design of labour-intensive schemes. Through the cost-effective construction of infrastructural and other assets, these schemes aim to strengthen the productive capacity of low-income groups during periods of rapid economic change and to mitigate the social consequences of structural adjustment.

1. Strengthening capacity
2. Promoting self reliance
3. Promoting community self-determination
4. Expanding productive employment
5. Empowering disenfranchised
6. Basing aid requests on long-term capacity building strategies for sustainable development

1. Training for self-employment in the urban informal sector
2. Supporting community based programmes for the poor
3. Supporting job-intensive housing development

1. Promoting use of labour-based technology
2. Facilitating development of job-intensive sectors
3. Promoting improved resource flows to the poorest countries

1. Building ecologically