Promoting productive rural employment

ILO advises on the design of rural development policies and development projects so as to make them more cost-effective and sustainable. The intent is to promote productive employment and reduce poverty for men and women in the farm and non-farm sectors of rural areas.

1. Encouraging the efficient use of rural labour and promoting agricultural growth are the most important means of reducing rural underemployment in lower income countries.

1. Promoting employment
2. Expanding productive employment
3. Advancing integrated rural development

1. Increasing non-farm employment for small farmers
2. Improving employment of rural women
3. Facilitating development of rural workers organizations

1. Providing employment
2. Increasing food production to reduce rural poverty

1. Training skilled workers in the countryside
2. Intensifying farm product output
3. Developing profitable scope of rural industrial operations