5. Fostering Human & Social Development
Placing people at the center of climate action by strengthening health, education, culture, and equity. This axis reduces the impacts of poverty and hunger, promotes resilient communities and ensures fair transitions through jobs, knowledge and social protection.
Be part of the implementation
Take action where your operations and value chain have the greatest climate-related risks. Drive change by seizing new opportunities across energy, nature, agriculture, cities, human development, finance.
Through Axis 5: Human and Social Development, businesses can foster human potential and social resilience by safeguarding workforces through climate-resilient healthcare, reducing community vulnerability, and funding the green skills training necessary for a just economic transition. Key actions businesses can take include:
Strengthen climate-resilient health systems to protect workforce well-being through Care Without Harm.
Increase people resilience, reducing vulnerability through ARISE - Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies
Scale green skills & workforce reskilling to enable a just & competitive transition through ILO’s Green Jobs and Global Skills Programmes and work with youth-led organisations such as Student Energy.
Case Studies
Global Historic Water Systems for Increased Water Security
Reviving traditional water systems in India and Nepal to combat water scarcity worsened by urbanization, climate change, and infrastructure loss.
ILO’s Skills for Energy in Southern Africa (SESA) Project
SESA Project strengthened skills in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and regional integration in Southern Africa through industry-aligned training, public-private partnerships, and capacity building.
Greening technical and vocational education: a practical guidance tool
Supports TVET stakeholders to mainstream skills for the green transition in TVET and skills development in a systemic and holistic manner.
Pre-arranged drought insurance launched to protect food security in Syria
A US$9.25M macroinsurance policy in Syria enables rapid drought response in key food-producing areas, boosting climate resilience and protecting food security.
The unlikely link between goat milk, elephants, and women’s leadership in Africa
The Milk to Market Program in Kenya empowers 1,245 Samburu women through goat milk sales, earning $33/month each, aiding orphaned elephants, boosting income, confidence, and resilience.
Enel Foundation and SEforALL launch Open Africa Power initiative to provide technical, business, and regulatory skills to young energy professionals.
Initiated by the Enel Foundation, Open Africa Power builds the capacity of African youth and women in clean energy. Since 2018, it has trained 343 people and 49% of them women.
Empowering Assam’s Villages: Youth Fellows Driving Climate Resilience
Assam’s Youth to Build Climate Resilience engages post-graduate fellows through the Chief Minister’s Climate Resilient Village Fellowship Programme, blending science and local knowledge to empower communities.
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)’s STEM Traineeship Programme to provide activity-based technical training and soft skills development to young women in the energy sector.
SEforALL empowers young women from Sierra Leone, Ghana, Kenya, and Panama through education and training that prepare them for careers in the renewable energy sector.
Plans to Accelerate Solutions
Concise, collective action-oriented plans developed by multiple initiatives that outline key steps to scale a specific high-impact solution based on practical levers for implementation.
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