After this course, participants will be able to:

• Mainstream employment and decent work considerations throughout the project cycle, from identification and design to implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
  Define jobs and decent jobs in operational and measurable terms for development projects.
• Conduct an employment-focused problem analysis using a systemic lens to identify key constraints, actors and enabling conditions affecting decent job creation.
• Design context-specific employment strategies that combine and sequence interventions across labour demand, labour supply, institutions and labour-market intermediation.
• Use evidence, research and lessons from previous interventions to assess promising approaches and adapt them to the project context.
• Plan credible monitoring and evaluation of employment and job-quality results, including jobs created and sustained, full-time equivalents, net additionality, indirect effects, contribution and attribution.
• Apply employment-focused project design and measurement tools to a live or pipeline project from their own professional context.

The course uses a blended, participatory and practice-oriented learning approach structured around three complementary phases.

The online phase runs from 23 November to 4 December 2026 on ITCILO eCampus platform and introduces the core concepts and tools for employment-focused project diagnosis and strategy design. Participants then attend an intensive five-day face-to-face workshop at the ITCILO Campus in Turin from 7 to 11 December 2026, where expert input is combined with facilitated discussion, peer exchange, group work, practical exercises and collaborative problem-solving. In January 2027, participants complete a short post-workshop application note to consolidate and transfer their learning to their own professional context.

A live or pipeline development project serves as the common thread across the course. Participants progressively apply the concepts and tools to this project, deepen the diagnosis, refine the employment strategy, and explore implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The programme represents a total learning effort of at least 60 hours.

• It addresses employment creation as a system-level project challenge rather than treating jobs as a simple output or target.
• It connects employment analysis directly to practical project-management decisions across identification, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Participants work on their own live or pipeline projects and leave with a refined employment strategy and a concrete application plan.
• The course combines employment-policy expertise with practical tools for measuring both the quantity and quality of employment results without overstating attribution.
• The blended format combines flexible online preparation with intensive face-to-face work, expert feedback and peer learning in an international professional environment.

Participants who successfully complete all three phases of the programme and meet the required assessment criteria will receive an ITCILO Certificate of Achievement. 

Successful completion includes the required assignments, knowledge checks and other assessment activities across the online, face-to-face and post-workshop phases. The programme represents a total learning effort of at least 60 hours. The certificate is issued electronically, secured through blockchain technology, and can be shared on professional and social media platforms.