Thursday 23 July 08:15
- 09:45
Hall: 02 - Teatrino
Chair and Presenter:
Carr Stuart
Discussant:
Kraak Johannes
Division: Division 1: Work and Organizational Psychology
The ILO and UN's Decent Work Agenda was conceptualized and introduced in the 1990s, before present crises in
costs of living (reconceptualized as non-living wages), climate change, and growing inequality (of opportunity).
Research on indecent work has tended to remain separate from research on climate change, and runaway inequality,
even though the three are systemically connected. Just Transition from unsustainable to sustainable livelihoods is an
idea that encapsulated these dynamic connections. For a livelihood to be truly sustainable, it must address all three
bottom lines, people, planet and shared prosperity. This session applies the New Diplomacy of Standard-Setting, from
Humanitarian Work Psychology, in the form of Indexing. Indexes tell us how organizations, countries, cities, and
Universities, for example, are performing. They can also motivate these groups to change their behavior. Indexing of
Livelihoods, against the thee dimensions of sustainability, which underlie the SDGs as a set, has the potential to
motivate change, and advance the SDGs themselves - and especially the primary goal, eradication of poverty, in all its
forms, everywhere. This session articulates that process, under SDG 17 - Partnerships for development, in this case
towards a Sustainable Livelihoods Index.
