Impact stories
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Transgender entrepreneurs survive the pandemic with business coaching
04 April 2022
These series of videos feature the business journeys of three transgender entrepreneurs who have improved their business skills and knowledge after participating at the ILO’s business coaching programmes involving eight transgender community organizations in five cities in Indonesia held from 2018-2021.
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ILO’s compensation fund programme offers laid-off workers reliefs
08 February 2022
The ILO through its programmes distributes a total of USD1,7 million compensation funds to 20,000 garment workers who have lost their jobs.
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Sowing seeds of change
02 February 2022
It takes thick skin and hard work to succeed as a woman farmer in Sri Lanka. From cultivating her backyard to breaking norms, Raasarathinam Arulrahini shares her journey.
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Renewed attention to health and safety risks and quality assurance procedures during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis leads to profitable business processes and enhanced workplace cooperation.
28 January 2022
ILO SCORE Training’s focus on continuous improvement sets a Tunisian manufacturing company on a path to improved safety and sanitation protocols, upgraded production systems and practices, and most importantly well-established worker-manager communication in its factory.
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Focusing on workplace cooperation and continuous improvement leads to enhanced productivity gains, worker-manager communication and safety and health measures.
28 January 2022
Thanks to ILO SCORE Training’s emphasis on workplace cooperation and continuous improvement, a leading manufacturing company in China adopted new strategies to actively engage workers and managers to improve workplace communication, upgrade production areas and implement safety standards across factory floors.
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Vaccines for garment workers to end the transmission of COVID-19 at workplace
27 January 2022
The ILO’s Better Work programme and the Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) join forces to provide more than 21 thousand doses of COVID-19 vaccines for Indonesia’s garment industry in Semarang, Central Java.
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Reviving Indonesia’s local tourism industry with community ecotourism
11 January 2022
The ILO’s ecotourism training, as part of the UN joint programme, helps local tourism in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) and East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) to rise in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Two young entrepreneurs embark to a new, digital business venture for SMEs
16 December 2021
After participating in the ILO digital marketing training, as part of UN joint programme, two young entrepreneurs join forces to start their own business. They hope to open new jobs for youth and provide various services for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
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Improved farming skills help local farmers of West Papua strengthening local economy and food security
06 December 2021
Local farmers in Teluk Mubri Village, North Manokwari, West Papua are now able to increase their productivity and income during the pandemic. The Introduction to proper and sustainable farming methods by the ILO’s skills training programme, as part of the UN joint programme, has helped them improving their farming skills.
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Jubel's story of persistence and success
03 December 2021
The Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), under the Technical and Madrasa Education Division (TMED), Ministry of Education, has carried out several steps in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) to make its 118 TVET institutes disability-inclusive.