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Reflections Webinar: Shaping the future of work through digital livelihoods

This webinar brought together colleagues from UNDP, ILO, and beyond to unpack lessons from digital livelihoods evaluations. Here’s what stood out: Ecosystem matters: Bangladesh’s digital centers and e-commerce platforms thrive when skills, market access, finance, and services are interconnected. Platform work & AI: Digital platforms and AI-driven job matching offer new opportunities, but barriers like documentation, competition, and labor protections remain. Regulation is evolving: The ILO is developing new standards for platform work to extend protections to freelancers, micro-workers, and digital entrepreneurs. Scale of the challenge: Over the next decade, 1.2 billion people will enter the labor market, but only 400 million jobs are expected to be created. Digitalization must help bridge this gap. UNDP’s role: UNDP is uniquely positioned to build digital ecosystems by linking governments, private sector, civil society, and communities—especially where systems are still developing. Crisis as a catalyst: Political transitions and crises can accelerate digital skills uptake and job creation, especially when unified service circuits support both refugees and host communities. Reflections paper on shaping the future of work in English, Spanish and French: https://www.undp.org/evaluation/publi... All Reflections papers: https://go.undp.org/reflections-en