Developing Countries: Job Creation

(asked on 9th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to measure and monitor (a) the number and (b) standard and quality of the jobs created by UK development assistance.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 14th January 2019

Creating more and better jobs is fundamental to reducing poverty, enhancing global prosperity and helping countries overcome the need for aid. As developing countries generate better quality jobs, opportunities for UK trade and investment increase.

DFID’s Economic Development Strategy commits the UK to supporting more and better jobs as a means of delivering the Sustainable Development Goals. As published in DFID’s annual report, DFID is developing its monitoring of numbers of people supported to have raised incomes or obtain or maintain better jobs or livelihoods.

DFID encourages suppliers and their supply chains to comply with ILO standards on Decent Work and it supports a number of initiatives that raise job quality and standards by firms that invest in low income countries. The UK has made expertise from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) available to partner Governments to support better quality labour market monitoring.

DFID is continually looking at how best to measure and monitor both the number and quality of jobs that our initiatives support. DFID is working closely on this with partners including CDC, the World Bank, the ILO and the UK Office of National Statistics.

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