projects and partnerships
The TASC Platform’s projects fall into two categories:
Collaborative research & innovation
Where we work with partners to conduct applied research with a view towards inspiring and informing innovations in policy and practice.
identify & incubate new solutions
where we cooperate with and / or host individuals and organizations to explore, develop and grow new initiatives in a safe and neutral environment with the aim of shifting mindsets and strengthening purpose-driven collaboration.
The Trade and Labour Programme
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Partners: World Economic Forum & Laudes Foundation
This joint project focuses on creating synergies between trade and labour policymaking, aiming to ensure that economic growth and sustainable development also translate into tangible improvements in worker well-being.
The multistakeholder work programme aims at identifying and sharing best practices from across the labour and trade policy spaces; building partnerships to align social commitments with inclusive supply chain practices; informing trade policy discussions; and providing a coordination platform.
Unlocking Telework for Refugees: 8 Multi-sector Policy Recommendations
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Partners: Centre for Trade and Economic Integration & Geneva Trade Platform
This research initiative engaged 25 organizations and 15 Swiss-based Ukrainian refugees to investigate how digital employment can offer new pathways to security and prosperity for refugees. Addressing barriers such as digital upskilling, legal frameworks, and recognition of qualifications, the research proposes eight targeted policy recommendations across key sectors—governmental, NGO, private, and international organizations to enhance the accessibility and sustainability of digital employment opportunities for refugees.
Women Returning to Work: Busting the Myths of Flexibility and Choice
collaborative research & innovation
Partners: The Innovation Foundation powered by Adecco
This joint research series explores the challenges faced by women returning to work after the pandemic and asks whether flexibility at work is a universal solution for both employers and workers. Following on a first paper published in January 2022, “Women Returning to Work in a Post-Pandemic World: Busting the Myths of Flexibility and Choice”, this second paper digs deeper into the benefits and challenges of flexibility for medium-skilled women in a diverse set of labour markets: India, Japan, South Africa, Sweden, and the UK, focus on three industries that have been at the front-line during the pandemic: healthcare, hospitality and logistics.
Telemigration: Digitally Enabled Globalisation of Services
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Partners: Colombia más Competitiva for the Colombian
The project focused on a newly important form of globalisation – the hiring of foreign freelancers via digital platforms. These platforms have created new ways of offshoring service tasks by making it easy for firms to find, hire, manage, and pay foreign-based freelancers.
From the hiring-firms’ perspective, these platforms have dramatically lowered the fixed cost of hiring foreign service- workers while at the same time dramatically raising the flexibility of such contracts. This project produced an understanding of occupations where Colombian service-sector workers and micro firms might most easily expand their export activity through telemigration, with the aim of informing better public policies and instruments.
Future Generations Balance Sheet
NEW SOLUTIONS INCUBATION
Partner: The Beyond Lab at UN Geneva
The "Futures Balance" initiative is exploring the co-development of a forward-looking accountability and planning tool aimed at ensuring long-term sustainability and prosperity, grounded in the principle of intergenerational equity. It aims to guide policy and decision-makers towards making informed choices that do not just serve immediate needs but also consider the well-being of future generations, thereby minimizing our 'debt to the future' and fostering a shift towards sustainable, regenerative development.
Our Future Life
new solutions incubation
Partners: Our Future Life, International Telecommunications Union
The Our Future Life collective seeks to generate the world's most inclusive brainstorm, inviting participants from all walks of life to share their visions through short videos and films. These contributions aim to inspire policymakers, decision-makers, creators, and future shapers, driving a direct line of communication between the imagination of the global community and those crafting our future, and addressing critical topics like AI, technological transformation, and human-centered work lives. The TASC Platform hosted a workshop exploring the potential to engage under-represented populations in global decision-making, and launched the “Visions of the Future of Work” short film competition, culminating in a workshop at the AI for Good Summit.
