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Afghanistan
Afghanistan became a member of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on 27 September 1934. An ILO Office was formally established in Kabul in 2003. Since then, the ILO has worked through various crises with its constituents and partners in areas including employment policies and strategies, labour law reform, international labour standards, skills and vocational training, employment creation, labour migration, child labour and returnee livelihood issues.
Latest news and stories
Labour force participation
Women increasingly excluded from Afghanistan’s labour market as wider employment pressures mount
EIIP Herat Afghanistan project
ILO Crisis Response Initiative: Decent work for women and men in Afghanistan
Labour statistics
National figures on labour market for the last available year from the ILOSTAT database
Development cooperation Dashboard
The Dashboard offers customizable views of ILO development cooperation projects funded by voluntary contributions around the world. It shows the budget and expenditure of voluntary contributions for the past 10 years.
Projects and programmes
Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus
Recovery through decent work for earthquake-affected communities
Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) in Afghanistan
Promoting employment and decent work through the humanitarian-development-peace nexus (PEDW-HDPN)
Publications
Labour force participation
Afghanistan's labour market five years after the Taliban takeover: Trends, challenges and emerging risks
EIIP Project Brief
Women’s participation in employment and resilience-building: Experiences from the Employment-Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) in...
Contact
ILO Office for Afghanistan
UNOCA Compound, PD 9, Kabul - Jalalabad Road, Kabul, Afghanistan
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +93(0)798296177