The Job Creation and Enterprise Development Programme is dedicated to unlocking the enormous potential of enterprises to create decent, long-lasting jobs. Decent work can only exist in competitive, productive, and economically viable firms. The programme seeks to enhance the positive interaction that exists between the improved competencies of managers, basic workers' rights and productivity.

Small and medium sized enterprises and cooperatives are major contributors to job creation An increase in their number can provide decent employment to the many people around the world now toiling under poor working conditions and trapped in poverty.

The Cooperative Facility for Africa is an ILO technical cooperation programme for the promotion and development of cooperatives in Africa. It has set up a website which provides a description of the programme, its partners, and areas of work as well as information on the countries covered. It also provides references to modalities of financing, publication and tools, news and events from the cooperative movement in Africa, press releases and useful links. The website is dedicated both to co-operators in Africa and elsewhere as well as the public at large.