Resources on skills and employability

The dreamweaver of Lake Sebu

02 December 2011

Story of Subi Nalon, the seventy-five-year-old inherited the skill from her mother and has been weaving t'nalak since he was 15.

Asia-Pacific Knowledge Network on Skills and Employability

01 May 2011

Provides a brief snapshot about the Asia-Pacific Knowledge Network on Skills and Employability.

Bondoc-LED Inter-agency Consultation Workshop

23 June 2010

The ILO, with FAO as its partner, convened a two-day inter-agency consultation workshop in Lucena to harmonize collaboration local government units (LGUs), government line agencies and NGOs operating in Bondoc Peninsula, Philippines. Fifty participants including the mayors of the four municipalities selected for project roll-out joined the meeting. Local officials discussed how the project, funded through the Japan Human Security Trust Fund, could buttress their own programmes through local economic development.

JP YEM YOUTHink launch and 1st YOUTHing session on Youth Development & Migration

23 June 2010

Led by the DOLE and NYC, the event is part of the consultation process to hear what the leaders, movers, shakers, thinkers and the youth have to say about issues on youth, employment and migration. It will have two parts: 11- 12 pm: Launch of YOUTHink Series . 1 - 4 pm: 1st YOUTHink session with the theme Youth Development and Migration.

Inception workshop for MDG-F JP on children, food security and nutrition

22 June 2010

Participating UN agencies convened an Inception Workshop with implementing partners to review the joint programme and discuss the work plans for the first year of implementation. The programme, towards ensuring food security and nutrition among children, is one of the projects awarded by the Government of Spain for UN agency work to attain Millennium Development Goals in the Philippines. It is aimed at contributing to reduce malnutrition among young children (MDG 1 to eradicate poverty and hunger) and reduce child mortality (MDG 4) by complementing government effort to focus on children aged 0-24 months through ideal feeding practices. The goal is to create an enabling environment where breastfeeding and appropriate feeding are promoted and supported by communities, and lead to improved nutrition levels.

HIV-AIDS

31 May 2010

HIV/AIDS is one of the most formidable challenges to development and social progress. The disease poses a great threat to the workplace. In the Philippines, reports indicate that cases have been significantly increasing since 2000. From a classification of “low and slow”, the situation has since been described by government as “hidden and growing”. That is why the ILO is committed to working closely with its constituents and partners to help avert the spread of HIV/AIDS especially in the workplace.

Livelihood recovery

22 March 2010

For sustainable job recovery in the medium-term, measures are needed to support revitalization of demand in local labour markets, while improving skills of micro entrepreneurs and job seekers, to facilitate the progressive insertion into local labour markets.

Skills and Employability

22 March 2010

Changing the way people see disABILITY

03 December 2009

Persons with disabilities often face lack of work opportunities or low wages compared to non-disabled persons. ILO estimates that people with disabilities represent 10 per cent of the world’s population, or some 650 million people worldwide. Approximately 470 million are of working age. In a forum on the “Right to Work of Persons with Disabilities” held in line with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the ILO Manila highlighted the need for decent work and equal opportunity.

Breaking through poverty: the TREE Project in the Philippines

01 December 2007

In Davao and in the Zamboanga Peninsula, across the highlands and all the way to the remote coastal villages of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, the Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) Project of the ILO has helped a generation of poor men and women optimise their human potential, stimulating economic empowerment and sustaining peace and development.