Projects

2009 

• Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Reform Project in Bangladesh
  In cooperation with the Government of Bangladesh, the ILO is implementing an EC funded project to reduce poverty through reforms to the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system. These reforms will enable more people to acquire employable skills and thus generate income through wage-earning jobs or self-employment. ...
• Joint Programme to Address Violence Against Women
  July 2008 - June 2011 This is a well coordinated and designed programme by the United Nations Country Team (UNCT), led by UNFPA, and its partners to effectively address the unfavorable policy and legal frameworks for violence against women, and the social and individual attitudes and behaviours. ...
• Green jobs
  January 2008 - December 2009 In Bangladesh, the green jobs initiative is a joint programme of the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the ILO. It aims to empower women and men at the local level by creating green jobs that will help reduce poverty and environmental damage, and ensure decent work.
• Urban Informal Economy (UIE) Project of Support to the National Time Bound Programme towards the Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour in Bangladesh
  January 2007 - December 2011 The UIE project is one of the ILO supported projects to the national Time Bound Program (TBP). The TBP was developed following the ratification of ILO Convention No. 182 on the Elimination of the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) by the Government of Bangladesh in 2001.

• Building Capacities on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Issues in Bangladesh: Rights and Good Practices - [pdf 61 KB]
  October 2009 - December 2010 The project promotes the rights of indigenous peoples in Bangladesh through piloting a targeted capacity building and advocacy initiative based primarily on the principles of ILO Conventions (C.107, C.169, and C.111) and other international instruments relevant to Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. ...