Resources on employment promotion

August 2021

  1. ThrivePH Session 2: Unlocking Opportunities to Build a Better Normal: Toward Gender Responsive and Resilient MSMEs in the Food Manufacturing and Processing Sector in the Philippines

    02 August 2021

July 2021

  1. ABS-CBN News: New Delta variant threatens recovery of small, medium firms: ILO

    23 July 2021

  2. Japan, ILO earmark $2.2-M to restart small Philippine firms hit by pandemic

    23 July 2021

    ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) Market Edge in a live interview with ILO Enterprise Development Specialist Hideki Kagohashi talked about a recently launched ILO and Japan project to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  3. Rebuilding Better project: Strong partnerships needed to assist women-owned small businesses in their recovery from COVID-19

    22 July 2021

    To kick-start the launch of the ILO and J.P. Morgan Rebuilding Better project, key stakeholders were invited to launch events across multiple ASEAN countries to discuss how women-owned small businesses in Southeast Asia can build greater resilience and be better supported in their recovery from the pandemic.

  4. Call for Expression of Interest: National Consultant for an action research on progress and challenges of e-formalization as applied to domestic workers in the Philippines

    22 July 2021

    The ILO Country Office for the Philippines (ILO CO-Manila), will engage a consultant for an action research on progress and challenges of e-formalization as applied to domestic workers in the Philippines. The interested applicants must submit their proposals via email on or before Wednesday, 11 August 2021, 5:00 p.m., Manila time.

  5. Embassy of Japan in the Philippines: Initiating ILO project “Bringing back jobs safely under the COVID-19 crisis in the Philippines: Rebooting small and informal businesses safely and digitally”

    16 July 2021

  6. Business World: Japan, ILO launch program to help MSMEs digitize

    16 July 2021

  7. The Philippine Star: Japan funds P110 million for MSME recovery

    16 July 2021

  8. CNN Philippines: $2.2 M ILO, Japan program aims to support pandemic-hit MSMEs in PH

    16 July 2021

  9. Employers underscore a safer, healthier work environment

    15 July 2021

    Mr Sergio Ortiz-Luis, Jr., President of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) cited the need for occupational safety and health at the launch of the ILO Japan Bringing Back Jobs Safely under the COVID-19 Crisis in the Philippines: Rebooting Small and Informal Businesses Safely and Digitally, 15 July 2021, Manila, Philippines