• What we do
• Making work better
• Improving public services
• Promoting sustainable development
  • Sierra Leone
  • Freshwater Action Network
  • Department for International Development
  • World Development Report

Promoting sustainable development

Sustainable development requires equitable sharing of the costs and benefits of economic and social development, today and into the future. We support this by:

• Helping employers achieve decent work and labour standards.
• Supporting civil society and workforce voice and participation.
• Fostering employment and livelihoods in fragile states.

Here are some example projects:

• In Sierra Leone, for a DFID project rated 'exemplary', we supported artisanal miners to improve their situation through collective organisation. More
• The Freshwater Action Network commissioned us to organise and facilitate dialogue between community organisations and the World Bank. More
• For the UK Department for International Development, we studied how European governments use public procurement to promote labour standards. More
• On behalf of the World Bank, Public World organised and moderated a multi-lingual electronic consultation about the World Development Report. More