How in engineering addressing SDG 8?
Hermina Johnny is a humanitarian specialising in gender, human rights, sustainable development and inter-agency coordination. She is the founder of Aspire Artemis Foundation, an organisation that promotes cultural exchange, language learning and holistic educational training opportunities to youth in vulnerable and marginalized communities around the world to better prepare them for their future careers.
The Royal Academy of Engineering recognises the strong link between engineering and economic growth. Our programmes provide entrepreneurs around the world with business skills training to turn their innovations into scalable enterprises, creating rewarding employment and inclusive economies.
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What is SDG 8?
As the global economy continues to recover from the 2008 recession, there is slower growth, widening inequalities, and not enough jobs to keep up with a growing labour face.
This goal aims to achieve full and productive employment, and decent work, for all women and men by 2030. This can be achieved through encouraging entrepreneurship and job creation, as well as implementing measures to eradicate forced labour, slavery and human trafficking.
The Royal Academy of Engineering supports the Sustainable Development Goals.
SDG information taken from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) website.
