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Heat stress, jobs and productivity: New evidence from six countries
A worker transports dried agricultural waste between greenhouse facilities in a rural farming area. Large piles of crop residue surround the pathway, with trees and mountains visible in the distance.

ILO Live

Heat stress, jobs and productivity: New evidence from six countries

Heat stress is an increasingly significant challenge for the world of work, posing risks to workers’ safety and health, reducing productivity and affecting businesses and the wider economy, as well as society. The International Labour Organization...

Africa Skills Week 2026: Work-Based Learning and Recognition of Prior Learning for inclusive skills development in Africa

Friday 16 October 2026

Africa Skills Week 2026: Work-Based Learning and Recognition of Prior Learning for inclusive skills development in Africa

This session will showcase practical approaches to strengthening workplace learning, assessment, quality assurance, certification and career progression. It will also examine how Work-Based Leaning (WBL) and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) can...

Beyond compliance: Collective action to address the root causes of child labour in the coffee supply chain
A female coffee farmer demonstrating how she picks coffee using a basket

ILO Live

Beyond compliance: Collective action to address the root causes of child labour in the coffee supply chain

Hybrid event organized by the ILO, FAO, ITC and UNICEF, with the support of the European Union, at the World of Coffee Brussels Expo.

High-Level Event to promote the ratification of the 1986 Instrument of Amendment of the ILO Constitution
ILO representatives gathered in the assembly room of the ILO

ILO Live

High-Level Event to promote the ratification of the 1986 Instrument of Amendment of the ILO Constitution

114th Session of the International Labour Conference

Meeting of experts on a code of practice on occupational safety and health in aquaculture
Aerial view of fish farms in Scotland

Meeting of experts

Meeting of experts on a code of practice on occupational safety and health in aquaculture

Technical meeting on challenges and opportunities for promoting decent work, productivity and a just transition arising from artificial...
Manufacturing AI image

Technical meeting on challenges and opportunities for promoting decent work, productivity and a just transition arising from artificial...

Technical meeting held from 13-17 April 2026

Analysing the Prevailing Incomes of Smallholder Farmers through Household Income and Expenditure Surveys: The Cases of Coffee and Cocoa
African Farmer Drying Cocoa Beans in Greenhouse

Research Webinar

Analysing the Prevailing Incomes of Smallholder Farmers through Household Income and Expenditure Surveys: The Cases of Coffee and Cocoa

This research webinar discusses new evidence from a paper that develops a harmonized method to estimate net household income for smallholder farmers using household survey data. The discussion will examine what the findings reveal about Living Wage...

Employment in the circular economy: Leveraging circularity to create decent work
Three men working with wood in a factory, 2 operating machinery and wearing ear defenders and hard hats

ILO Live

Employment in the circular economy: Leveraging circularity to create decent work

The event will present the Circular jobs global baseline report, co-authored by the International Labour Organization, the Circle Economy Foundation, and the World Bank Group. Developed through three years of joint research, this landmark...

JAGASAWITAN Annual coordination meeting: OSH workshop and dissemination of national employment information in the palm oil sector

Annual meeting

JAGASAWITAN Annual coordination meeting: OSH workshop and dissemination of national employment information in the palm oil sector

The annual Employment Network for Sustainable Palm Oil (JAGASAWITAN) meeting 2025 will focus on occupational safety and health (OSH) in the palm oil sector.

Report launch: Decent Work and Informality in the Agricultural Sector of Latin America, 2019–2023

ILO-FAO

Report launch: Decent Work and Informality in the Agricultural Sector of Latin America, 2019–2023

Implementing the Indonesia Child Labour-Free Roadmap 2045
a young boy pushing a wheel cart full of oil palm fruits in the plantation

National Consultation Workshop

Implementing the Indonesia Child Labour-Free Roadmap 2045

The workshop, jointly organized by PAACLA Indonesia, Ministry of Manpower, ILO Indonesia & Timor Leste, with support from JARAK and the Government of Canada, brings together key stakeholders—government agencies, businesses, trade unions, civil...

Global Coalition for Social Justice Forum: Delivering the political declaration through collaboration and action
Inaugural Forum of the Global Coalition for Social Justice

ILO Live

Global Coalition for Social Justice Forum: Delivering the political declaration through collaboration and action

ILO at the Second World Summit for Social Development 2025

Ministerial visit: Enhancing Indonesia's dairy value-chain through access to finance and digital transformation
Group photo

Event

Ministerial visit: Enhancing Indonesia's dairy value-chain through access to finance and digital transformation

ILO Academy on Rural Development
Illustration RDA ILO-ITC 2025

Online training

ILO Academy on Rural Development

This Academy will provide a platform to explore how a just transition can foster inclusive and resilient rural economies. A just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all must be rooted in social justice and...

Cultivating Fields of Progress: Agriculture and the International Labour Organization, 1920s–1950s

Research Seminar

Cultivating Fields of Progress: Agriculture and the International Labour Organization, 1920s–1950s

This webinar presents 'Cultivating Fields of Progress', a new book on the ILO’s historical engagement with agricultural labour from the 1920s to the 1950s. A panel of experts will discuss how this overlooked history reshapes our understanding of...

Meeting of experts to adopt policy guidelines for the promotion of decent work in recycling
Worker at a recycling plant

Sectoral meeting

Meeting of experts to adopt policy guidelines for the promotion of decent work in recycling

Social security programmes for non-wage recipients’ workers in coffee farmer communities in Tanggamus District, Lampung Province
coffee farmers participated in the info session on social protection

Info session

Social security programmes for non-wage recipients’ workers in coffee farmer communities in Tanggamus District, Lampung Province

The objective of the information session is to raise awareness of social security programmes that coffee farmers and coffee farm workers (non-wage recipients/BPU) in Tanggamus District, Lampung, are eligible to access.

Sustainable mushroom farming to address child labour
two women doing a mushroom culture

Child labour

Sustainable mushroom farming to address child labour

Community members and parents of child labourers learn sustainable mushroom farming to earn more and help end child labour.

Cultivating Indonesia's agricultural success: How AI can transform agriculture for food security, productivity, and decent work

Deep Dive event

Cultivating Indonesia's agricultural success: How AI can transform agriculture for food security, productivity, and decent work

The forum aims to facilitate dialogue and knowledge sharing between the government, employer and worker associations, private sector, academia, and civil society to promote AI-driven innovations in agriculture.

Tinabangay: Social protection registration in Siargao
male and female workers use a laptop to register online for social protection

Informal economy

Tinabangay: Social protection registration in Siargao

Over a hundred workers in the informal economy will gain access to social protection and employment services in Siargao Island in the Philippines through a one-stop services registration.