This course equips participants with the knowledge how to design and implement development cooperation projects that create jobs and improve job quality. It will answer common questions about what we mean by "a job", let alone a decent one, and how to operationalise these definitions in the context of development projects in measurable terms. Participants will learn how to analyse binding labour market constraints in lower¿income and middle¿income countries, including a lack of structural transformation, low productivity levels, skills gaps, weak job matching, informality, and barriers facing women and young people, to name just a few. Through hands-on exercises they will explore and understand the differences between demand¿side and supply¿side strategies and interventions, and learn when each is more likely to yield impact, including how to sequence and combine them depending on context. Furthermore, the course also shows how to plan for credible M&E of jobs and job quality. Using ITCILO's trademark participatory approach to learning, participants will explore possible indicators for jobs created and sustained, full¿time equivalent estimates, net additionality, and indirect effects, as well as complicated questions around attribution of impact. Thus, participants will leave the course with a well-rounded understanding of what employment creation means, how it is achieved, and how decent jobs can be measured. This will allow them to shape their current and prospective projects towards real job creation on the ground.