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<p>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.</p><p>
</p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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.</p>
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