FAO has developed a corporate conceptual framework on decent rural employment (DRE). Within this framework, FAO has invested in the development of an Integrated Country Approach for promoting DRE, through which it provides holistic and strategic assistance to its Member Countries in this technical area. The Integrated Country Approach for promoting DRE is built around a set of FAO’s core functions, namely knowledge generation, policy dialogue, capacity development and partnerships. Depending on the country context, the approach prioritizes themes such as youth employment promotion, child labour prevention, migration and/or rural women’s economic empowerment. Furthermore, gender equality and environmental sustainability are mainstreamed as cross-cutting issues. From 2011 to 2014, FAO implemented the Integrated Country Approach in Malawi and Tanzania. 1 The implementation of the approach in these two countries contributed substantially to defining and field-testing the different methodologies and tools. This implementation also fostered longterm global and country-level partnerships, especially with the International Labour Organization (ILO).