Is SDG 8 relevant to TWE

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Overview

We need to determine if this SDG is relevant to the TWE project, so that we can align research, planing and marketing to that goal.

Action Items

• Go to Resource 1, choose the SDG indicated in the title of this issue
  • Add link to that page into Resource 2
• Review both targets and indicators to determine which SGS are applicable to the project.
• Copy all Targets and Indicators to a comment below
  • Add notes to identify appropriate Targets/Indicators and describe how you propose to use the indicator to measure the program's progress
  • Add notes to the Targets/Indicators that you think are not a good fit and why.
• Review with product team
• Update spreadsheet in resource 3 with details product team agrees on

Resources/Instructions

1. https://sdgs.un.org/goals
2. https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal8
3. SDG Target and Indicator Spreadsheet

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Relevant to TWE

TWE program provides informal employment opportunities so 8.3 applies to our program goals.

• Target

  • 8.3
    Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services

• Indicators

  • 8.3.1
    Proportion of informal employment in total employment, by sector and sex

When TWE program becomes a paid program, we can measure the impact of the interns' earnings using Average hourly earnings of female and male employees, by occupation, age and persons with disabilities (SDG 8.5.1).

• Target

  • 8.5
    By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

• Indicators

  • 8.5.1
    Average hourly earnings of female and male employees, by occupation, age and persons with disabilities

  • 8.5.2
    Unemployment rate, by sex, age and persons with disabilities

When scaling up the TWE program, we can illustrate the impact of increasing Proportion of youth (aged 15-24 years) not in education, employment or training (SDG 8.6.1).

• Target

  • 8.6
    By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

• Indicators

  • 8.6.1
    Proportion of youth (aged 15-24 years) not in education, employment or training

Banking or financial services expansion is relevant to TWE program because once it becomes a paid internship program interns will receive payments earned from the internship program in their own bank accounts (SDG 8.10.2).

• Target

  • 8.10
    Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all

• Indicators

  • 8.10.1
    (a) Number of commercial bank branches per 100,000 adults and (b) number of automated teller machines (ATMs) per 100,000 adults

  • 8.10.2
    Proportion of adults (15 years and older) with an account at a bank or other financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider

Not Applicable

GDP is not measured in our program, so 8.1 is not relevant to our program.

• Target

  • 8.1
    Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries

• Indicators

  • 8.1.1
    Annual growth rate of real GDP per capita

GDP is not measured in our program, so 8.2 is not applicable.

• Target

  • 8.2
    Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors

• Indicators

  • 8.2.1
    Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person

TWE doesn't have any sustainability goals at the moment

• Target

  • 8.4
    Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead

• Indicators

  • 8.4.1
    Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP

  • 8.4.2
    Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP

Child labour is not associated with TWE, therefore we can't measure that in our program.

• Target

  • 8.7
    Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms

• Indicators

  • 8.7.1
    Proportion and number of children aged 5‑17 years engaged in child labour, by sex and age

We don't track occupational injuries or labour rights in our program.

• Target

  • 8.8
    Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment

• Indicators

  • 8.8.1
    Fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workers, by sex and migrant status

  • 8.8.2
    Level of national compliance with labour rights (freedom of association and collective bargaining) based on International Labour Organization (ILO) textual sources and national legislation, by sex and migrant status

Tourism direct GDP is not relevant to our program.

• Target

  • 8.9
    By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products

• Indicators

  • 8.9.1
    Tourism direct GDP as a proportion of total GDP and in growth rate

We don't provide trade-related technical assistance or focus on national youth employment strategy by providing trade-related technical assistance.

• Target

  • 8.a
    Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries

• Indicators

  • 8.a.1
    Aid for Trade commitments and disbursements

• Target

  • 8.b
    By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization

• Indicators

  • 8.b.1
    Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for youth employment, as a distinct strategy or as part of a national employment strategy

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I have added the relevant SDGs to the SDG Target and Indicator Spreadsheet. Closing this issue now.