Employment and Livelihoods

The SHD works on growth strategies, improving the quality of work through better wages, labour rights and entitlements, skilling, occupational safety and health, and discrimination-free work environments.

This work focuses on:

• Domestic and home-based work, waste work, construction, gig and platform work, and nano-and-small enterprises.
• The future of work and workers on digital platforms and the informal urban economy.
• Inclusive, employment-intensive urban development pathways.
• Improving the quality of informal work through site-based and sector-focused infrastructure upgradation, while building associational strength of workers.