The ILO, in partnership with Irish Aid, promotes women's entrepreneurship development and enhances employment opportunities for women, including women with disabilities or living with HIV/AIDS, through business knowledge and training; promoting and facilitating access to micro-finance institutions; facilitating access to markets through trade fairs and exhibitions; and, voice and representation through the strengthening of women entrepreneurs' networks and groups. In 2007 alone, over 3,000 women in Eastern Africa benefited from the ILO-Irish Aid Partnership Programme. Their personal stories are highlighted in the narratives accompanying the following photographs.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to reducing poverty , achieving fair globalization and advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. As a tripartite organization the ILO works with governments, employers and workers' organizations to promote the following interlinked aims:
- Social protection
Enhance the coverage and effectiveness of social protection for all. - Social dialogue
Bringing together representatives of governments, employers and workers to foster cooperation and to deliver "real world" knowledge about employment and work.
- Employment creation
Create greater opportunities for women and men to secure decent employment and income. - Rights at work
Working extensively throughout the world to promote a solid legal framework for respecting basic economic and social rights.
World of Work 62, April 2008 - Better business: Multinationals and Decent Work; Contracts in the cleaning industry; Child labour... - [pdf 2338 KB]
- Rising food prices and their implications for employment, decent work and poverty reduction - 02 June 2008 - [pdf 218 KB]
- Freedom of association in practice: Lessons learned (Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work) - 01 May 2008 - [pdf 1171 KB]
- Global Employment Trends reports
- Towards a regular budget supplementary account (RBSA) for voluntary contributions