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March 2013

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   Entrepreneurship skills

   Afghan women unleashing their business potential

   01 March 2013

   How entrepreneurship enabled an Afghan woman to create a successful company and help other women do the same.

October 2007

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   Article

   Green jobs initiative in Burkina Faso: From waste to wages

   11 October 2007

   Among the goals of the ILO’s new “Green Jobs Initiative” is linking development and job creation to the creation of a cleaner, more sustainable environment. Though the concept is relatively new, the practice is already growing in some parts of the world. ILO Online reports from Burkina Faso where a new project for removing plastic waste is not only improving the environment, but creating “green jobs” in the process.

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   Video

   Burkina Faso: Protecting the Environment by Profiting from Garbage

   09 October 2007

   Burkina Faso’s first plastic recycling centre is paving the way for a new kind of development project. It provides a money earner to the poor while tackling environmental pollution. Local industry also benefits – the recycled plastic granules cost half the price of importing new plastic from abroad.

January 2007

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   Video

   Burkina Faso: Protecting the Environment by Profiting from Garbage

   12 January 2007

   Burkina Faso’s first plastic recycling centre is paving the way for a new kind of development project. It provides a money earner to the poor while tackling environmental pollution. Local industry also benefits – the recycled plastic granules cost half the price of importing new plastic from abroad.

November 2006

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   Video

   Peruvian Culture: A Tool For Development

   27 November 2006

   The restoration of colonial churches and the development of religious tourism is bringing new economic activity to poor parts of Northern Lima. The benefits of cultural projects for development are twofold; not only can they help alleviate poverty, they also strengthen cultural identity.

April 2006

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   Video

   International Training Centre of the ILO

   04 April 2006

   The Centre works to enhance the capacity of governments, employers' organizations, workers' organizations and other social and economic actors to play an effective role in the economic and social development of their countries and regions.