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  1. Video

    Small app, big advantage

    31 March 2015

    A small mobile App has relieved labour inspectors in Sri Lanka of heavy stacks of reports and record books and improved the efficiency, transparency and timeliness of the government service.

  2. Country leaflet

    The ILO in Maldives

    25 March 2015

    This Country Leaflet gives an overview of ILO activities in Maldives. It summarizes the ILO’s history in the country, and outlines the work undertaken by the ILO in cooperation with the government and social partners on a wide range of work and workplace issues.

  3. Event

    Launch of the ILO/EFC/CIMA Partnership for Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises

    The International Labour Organization (ILO), together with the Employers Federation of Ceylon (EFC) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) launched a comprehensive partnership agreement to roll out the Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) short programme.

  4. Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour

    Social protection and prevention of Child Labour

    Two day workshop on Social protection and prevention of Child Labour for Labour Officers, Probation Officers & Education  Project Officers in Ratnaputa District

  5. Project

    Safe Labour Migration Programme in Sri Lanka

    01 March 2015

    Supported by the Government of Switzerland, this programme aims at ensuring an effective implementation of the Sri Lanka National Labour Migration Policy while promoting decent work through good governance, protection and empowerment of migrant workers.

  6. Event

    Common agenda for public private partnership

    Workshop to develop a common agenda for Public-Private Partnership to pursue a common goal for the benefit of vulnerable children and their families

  7. Event

    Social protection and prevention of Child Labour

    Two day workshop on Social protection and prevention of Child Labour for Labour Officers, Probation Officers & Education  Project Officers in Ratnaputa District

  8. Local economic development in Sri Lanka

    Peace, prosperity and papayas

    02 February 2015

    Her papaya crop is paying off for a widowed farmer helped by the ILO-supported LEED program, which has boosted business in fisheries, construction and agriculture.

  9. Video

    Peace, prosperity and papayas

    01 February 2015

    Vadiveel Selvarathy is expecting a richer harvest of her "red lady" papayas, Sivaranjini Rameshkumar is about to finish another fishing boat, and Peter Rajan has just returned with a big catch of blue swimming crabs. Survivors of Sri Lanka’s three-decade civil war are seeing their lives improve day by day with help from the ILO's Local Empowerment through Economic Development (LEED) Project, supported by the Australian Government

  10. Project

    Promoting the Right to Freedom of Association and the Right to Collective Bargaining (FOACB)

    01 January 2015

    The Project will contribute to improving labour-relations in Sri Lanka.