Projects

2017

1. Green Jobs in Zambia's Building Construction Sector

   1 June 2012 - 1 June 2017

   The joint UN project “Enhancing Competitiveness and Sustainable Business Among MSMEs in building Constructions” aims to create sustainable and green jobs among micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the Zambian building construction industry.

2014

1. Green Entrepreneurship Development

   1 March 2010 - 1 December 2014

   In 2010, based on a request of ILO stakeholders, the Green Jobs Programme formed a partnership with the ILO Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF). The objective of the partnership is to promote green youth entrepreneurship in the three YEF target countries Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

2. Business Opportunities and Support Services (BOSS), Timor Leste

   1 September 2010 - 30 September 2014

   BOSS is a project of the ILO that supports the Institute for Business Support (IADE) and the National Directorate for Rural Development (NDRD) of the Ministry of Economy and Development in boosting local economic development, enhancing Government service delivery and creating quality employment in rural areas by expanding market access for MSEs, strengthening local contractors and improving the provision of business development services.

3. Promoting Green Jobs in South Africa through Small and Medium Scale Enterprise Development

   1 June 2011 - 1 June 2014

   The Free State SME Development Initiative seeks to create decent job opportunities through small and medium sized enterprise (SME) development.

2013

1. Youth for change in Somalia

   1 August 2012 - 1 July 2013

   The Youth for Change joint initiative aims at reducing risk of youth becoming involved in antisocial and criminal behavior. Its economic re-integration component focuses, among others, on green job promotion.

2012

1. SCORE – Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises

   4 July 2009 - 31 December 2012

2011

1. 

   Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica

   1 February 2008 - 31 December 2011

   The Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica is a technical cooperation programme of the ILO, under DFID funding. From its office in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), CoopAfrica covers 9 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. CoopAfrica assists cooperatives to improve their governance, efficiency and performance in order to strengthen their capacity to create jobs, access markets, generate income, reduce poverty, provide social protection and give people a voice in society.

2. Green jobs for the young marginalized

   1 June 2009 - 1 July 2011

   The ILO’s Youth Employment Support (YES) Jobs for the Unemployed and Marginalized young People (JUMP) project focused, among other topics, on green jobs and green entrepreneurship promotion.

2010

1. Employment-Intensive Growth for Indonesia: Job Opportunities for young women and men (JOY). Indonesia 2007-2010

   1 January 2007 - 30 April 2010

2. Employment Creation and Peace Building based on Local Economic Development (EmPLED)

   1 January 2007 - 30 April 2010

3. Boosting Youth Employment is using an integrated approach and this in the framework of the Decent Work Country Programmes developed for Azerbaijan" (2007-2010) and Kyrgyzstan (2006-2009)

   1 July 2006 - 1 April 2010

2009

1. Decent work and local development through dialogue and partnership building. Ghana

   1 January 2008 - 31 December 2009

2. Enterprise for Pro-poor Growth, Sri Lanka, 2005-2009

   1 May 2005 - 30 September 2009

2008

1. Micro and small enterprise development for pro-poor growth in Sri Lanka (Enter-Growth project)

   1 June 2005 - 31 May 2008

   Contribute to pro-poor economic growth and quality employment for women and men, through an integrated programme for development of micro and small enterprises.

2. ILO Growth Oriented Women Entrepreneurs (GOWE Kenya)

   1 April 2006 - 1 April 2008

3. The Law-Growth Nexus: A Mapping of Labour Law and Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) Development

   23 October 2007 - 22 January 2008

   The overall objective of this project is to promote better business environments for workers and employers in MSEs. This will be achieved through realising the intermediate objective of developing good practice guidelines for labour and labour related laws for MSEs.

2007

1. Women's Entrepreneurship Development in Aceh (WED) - Phase II

   1 April - 31 May 2007

   Strengthening BDS Providers and Improving the Market Access for Women Entrepreneurs