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  1. Building capacity on agricultural safety and health to empower women in rural Zimbabwe

    23 March 2016

    The ILO trained women of Chivi’s rural district to identify and mitigate risks related to safety and health at project sites.

  2. ILO calls for increase in global health sector workforce

    23 March 2016

    At the first meeting in Lyon, France, of a new UN multilateral commission, the ILO has highlighted a major increase in the health sector workforce as essential if the 2030 Agenda goals on health are to be realized.

  3. Monrovia post Ebola: The quest for clean water and youth employment

    23 March 2016

    In the lead up to World Water Day, a new programme to strengthen the capacity of local communities in Liberia to improve sanitation highlights the importance of access to clean water.

  4. Abdikadir Hussein: Tailoring a new life in Baidoa

    22 March 2016

    Abdikadir Hussein Issack, a father of seven, returned from Yemen in 2013. He was born in Baidoa district, and he was blessed with four girls and three boys. During the war in Somalia he and his family migrated to Yemen as refugees.

  5. Rahma Sheikh: From a Refugee to a successful Young Entrepreneur in Baidoa, Somalia

    22 March 2016

    My name is Rahma Sheikh Abdi. I was born 1982 in Baidoa district, where I grew up with my family. I was the first born in a family of 5. I never had the opportunity to get higher education because I had the responsibility of looking after my siblings while my parents worked to provide an income for our family.

  6. Water drives job creation and economic growth, says new UN report

    22 March 2016

    An estimated three out of four jobs that make up the global workforce are either heavily or moderately dependent on water. This means that water shortages and problems of access to water and sanitation could limit economic growth and job creation in the coming decades, according to a UN report.

  7. Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to follow-up on ILO 2015 Africa Regional Meeting

    22 March 2016

    The Ministers of Labour of Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique met in Maputo from 21-22 March 2016 to discuss implementation of the Addis Ababa Declaration adopted by the 13th ILO Africa Regional Meeting.

  8. Better Water, Better Jobs in Africa

    21 March 2016

    To mark World Water Day 2016, the ILO in Africa partnered with DFA, a capacity building company utilizing art and image production throughout Africa managed by award winning photographer Aida Muluneh.

  9. Mozambique joins Portuguese-speaking countries to address transition to formal economy

    20 March 2016

    Mozambique is hosting a seminar on “Transition from Informality to Formality" with representatives from Cabo Verde and Sao Tome and Principe, from 21-24 March 2016 in Maputo.

  10. UN Youth Envoy calls for more investment in youth enterprises development in Zambia

    19 March 2016

    UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Ahmad Alhendawi, called for increased investments in youth enterprises development to address the challenge of unemployment in Zambia. Mr Alhendawi was visiting an ILO/FAO-supported aquaculture youth projects in Chongwe District of Zambia.

  11. ILO to support Nigeria's jobs and skills agenda

    18 March 2016

    The International Labour Organization (ILO) renewed its commitment towards supporting the Government of Nigeria's job strategy to address the demand and supply components of employment creation.

  12. ECOWAS countries to strengthen migration data management

    18 March 2016

    Experts from national statistical offices of ECOWAS member States agreed to strengthen migration data management for evidence-based policy making on labour migration.

  13. How to up-scale social-environmental entrepreneurship in South Africa?

    17 March 2016

    This was the focus of an ILO dedicated interactive session at the SEED South Africa Symposium 2016.

  14. ILO to increase evidence on what works for youth employment in the Middle East and North Africa

    17 March 2016

  15. ILO supports Egypt’s textile and ready- made garments exports

    15 March 2016

    Egypt hosted the first Textile Egyptian International Buyers Forum on 14-15, March 2016 to attract new investments into the industry and focus on the global market.

  16. ILO calls for a focus on job creation in the TICAD VI process

    15 March 2016

    Creating decent and productive jobs should be at the heart of TICAD 2016, to be held for the first time in Africa, says ILO.

  17. ECOWAS workshop on migration data management

    15 March 2016

    Senior experts are meeting from 15-18 March 2016 in Lome, Togo to better mainstream migration data and management into development planning in ECOWAS countries.

  18. ILO supports Egypt’s textile and ready- made garments exports

    14 March 2016

    Egypt hosted the first Textile Egyptian International Buyers Forum on 14-15, March 2016 to attract new investments into the industry and focus on the global market.

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    Mauritania becomes the second African country to commit to ending modern slavery

    14 March 2016

    The country is among the first to formally implement the 2014 Protocol to the ILO’s Forced Labour Convention No.29.

  20. Ensuring protection and rights for domestic workers in Africa

    14 March 2016

    The largest deficits in social security coverage of domestic workers are concentrated in Africa and Asia, where few countries provide legal coverage to the domestic work sector: ILO report.