Work Programme

The Work Programme (WP) was a UK government welfare-to-work programme introduced in Great Britain in June 2011. It was the flagship welfare-to-work scheme of the 2010–2015 UK coalition government. Under the Work Programme the task of getting the long-term unemployed into work was outsourced to a range of public sector, private sector and third sector organisations. The scheme replaced a range of schemes which existed under previous New Labour governments including Employment Zones, New Deal, Flexible New Deal and the now abolished Future Jobs Fund scheme which aimed to tackle youth unemployment. Despite being the flagship welfare-to-work scheme of the …

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AIC: Agricultural Institute of Canada · 28 November 2024 English

International Year of the Woman Farmer in 2026 2026/en The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomes the resolution adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly …

have an opportunity to push for a renewed Lima work programme and an updated Gender Action Plan that does women. Not renewing or advancing this critical work programme may have important implications for work on


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 12 November 2024 English

1 The Role of Governance in Unleashing the Value of Data The Current State of Global Data Governance Establishing country-level data governance frameworks is an ongoing and complex undertaking. [...] …

ca/en/security-intelligence-service/ 12 WTO, Work Programme on Electronic Commerce, corporate/publicat


AIC: Agricultural Institute of Canada · 30 October 2024 English

The team’s aim is to plant 4,000 totora a year and completely clean up the lake, to bring back the birds and allow the community to grow vegetables again. [...] …

of the implementation of the Enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender and its Gender Action Plan. This


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 29 October 2024 English

Least developed countries (LDCs) need more investment in agriculture to increase their agricultural productivity and promote their food security. Existing World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and flexibilities on agricultural domestic …

org/en World Trade Organization. (2024c). Work programme on food security for LDCs and NFIDCs. https://www


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 30 September 2024 English

It is the only organization in the world that Acronyms and maps the governance of public, proprietary and personal data at the domestic and international Abbreviations levels. [...] It was …

makers there have developed Horizon Europe Work Programme includes three several strategies, such as


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 31 July 2024 English

This report explores how nine countries are advancing climate adaptation through innovative monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems. This report compares the unique approaches of Canada, France, Kenya, Namibia, Peru, …

Agreement in 2015, the Glasgow– Sharm el-Sheikh Work Programme on the GGA, and the 2023 United Arab Emirates established at COP 28 the 2-year UAE–Belém Work Programme, through which countries will explore how


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 July 2024 English

A group of 90 World Trade Organization (WTO) members are negotiating a new global agreement on e-commerce rules at the WTO. After close to 7 years of discussions, they are …

multilateral track, through the WTO work programme on e-commerce. The work programme was established in 1998 to on discussion and information sharing. The work programme is also the platform through which members examine issues discussed in the multilateral work programme. The paper reviews how the draft legal text For more information on the WTO’s e-commerce work programme, see https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/ with at the multilateral level through the work programme and its discussion of the multilateral WTO


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 17 May 2024 English

Despite most policy-makers' belief that GDP growth is the primary measure of success, the true core factors of economic progress are capital assets—human, natural, produced, financial, and social capital. These …

forestry in Ethiopia. A paper prepared for the FAO work-programme component on financing sustainable forest


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 15 May 2024 English

International investment treaties and their investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system are facing growing scrutiny of how they threaten climate action, environmental protection, and social justice. But what would an alternative …

high-emission industries (COP 28 UAE Just Transition Work Programme). There may be role for treaties to secure


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 14 May 2024 English

After the historic adoption of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies in 2022, Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are now negotiating new global disciplines to address more broadly the …

Ministerial declaration (WT/MIN(05)/DEC). Doha Work Programme. https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/mini


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