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Africa Skills Week 2026: recognition, industry, inclusion and youth earning session

Zoom session on Monday 12 October 2026

Africa Skills Week 2026: recognition, industry, inclusion and youth earning session

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...

The Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA) 2.0 and Association for TVET Regulators in Africa (ATRA) Strategic Partners Consultative Meeting

Regional conference

The Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA) 2.0 and Association for TVET Regulators in Africa (ATRA) Strategic Partners Consultative Meeting

World Youth Skills Day 2026: Skills for a shared future
A young and an older worker in safety helmets inspect solar panels and wind turbines at a renewable energy facility, illustrating skills and employment in the green economy.

ILO Live

World Youth Skills Day 2026: Skills for a shared future

World Youth Skills Day 2026 shines a spotlight on young people as changemakers and architects of a more inclusive, resilient and human-centered future. The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN and the Permanent Mission of Portugal to...

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

ECOSOC Youth Forum 2026: Partnerships and financing for youth
ECOSOC Youth Forum 2026 banner

ILO Live

ECOSOC Youth Forum 2026: Partnerships and financing for youth

This session of the ECOSOC youth forum 2026 aims to strengthen coherence between financing for development, social development and investment, and the creation of decent jobs for youth everywhere. The session will:Examine how multi-stakeholder...

Link, learn, localise: Working with and for young people to advance self-reliance in forced displacement contexts

Side Event at the 2026 ECOSOC Youth Forum

Link, learn, localise: Working with and for young people to advance self-reliance in forced displacement contexts

Nothing about youth without youth: Advancing decent work and social justice together
Two women and two men are standing close together, seen from behind

ILO Live

Nothing about youth without youth: Advancing decent work and social justice together

Young people are increasingly called upon to participate in programmes, policies and decisions that affect their lives - yet too often, engagement remains symbolic rather than meaningful. For young people in forced displacement contexts, the gap...

Gyeonggi-ILO International Labour Festa on Youth, Provinces and the Future of Work

Global Youth Employment Forum 2025

Gyeonggi-ILO International Labour Festa on Youth, Provinces and the Future of Work

The event will be delivered as a joint effort of the Gyeonggi Province, the Ministry of Employment and Labour of Korea and the International Labour Organization.

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

National Career and Productivity Fair 2025
National Career and Productivity Fair 2025

Career fair

National Career and Productivity Fair 2025

Jobs measurement and employment impact assessment

ITC/ILO online course

Jobs measurement and employment impact assessment

This course aims to improve the design and implementation of policies for the creation of decent jobs by building the capacity of all relevant stakeholders to identify, measure and assess the effects on employment of economic, sectoral,...

Young and Unhappy in the World of Work: What Can We Do About It?

Employment Seminar Series

Young and Unhappy in the World of Work: What Can We Do About It?

In this Employment Policy Department seminar, economist David Blanchflower shares his research findings on the global surge in youth unhappiness, with rising anxiety, loneliness, and disconnection—especially among young women.

Integrated labour market programmes for youth in South-East Asia training
ITCILO Youth Training

Training

Integrated labour market programmes for youth in South-East Asia training

This training is organized to strengthen the capacity of South-East Asian countries to design and implement integrated labour market programmes to support transitions and decent employment for young people.

Launch of the publication Social Dialogue and Labour Relations 2025

Latin America and the Caribbean

Launch of the publication Social Dialogue and Labour Relations 2025

The ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean invites you to the launch of its new report: Social Dialogue and Labour Relations 2025, a regional snapshot of the state of social dialogue and labour relations in Latin America and the...

Fourth Annual West African and Sahel Youth Forum
Participants gathered outside the venue at the opening of the 4th Annual West Africa and Sahel Youth Forum in Dakar, featuring young women and men, government officials, and partners.

Youth employment

Fourth Annual West African and Sahel Youth Forum

Youth Forum in Dakar charts a path for decent jobs and education in West Africa and the Sahel.

Rewiring the future: How AI can empower girls and youth for the green transition in Asia-Pacific?

Hosted by ILO, UNICEF and UN Women

Rewiring the future: How AI can empower girls and youth for the green transition in Asia-Pacific?

This webinar will explore how young people, especially girls and marginalized youth, are driving solutions to close the skills gap in the digital and green economy.

Shaping and managing effective employment services

ITC/ILO course

Shaping and managing effective employment services

This course is aimed at public employment services (PES) managers to support their strategic thinking and ensure more effective and agile PES organizations in the context of socio-economic transformations.

Exchange on enterprise tools and approaches adapted and applied in contexts of forced displacement
woman standing inside her grocery shop looking at the bulb

Dialogues on displacement - Perspectives from ILO practitioners

Exchange on enterprise tools and approaches adapted and applied in contexts of forced displacement

This is a first session of ILO knowledge exchange initiated by AP-Crisis, MIGRANT and PROSPECTS to support institutional knowledge exchange and learning in contexts of forced displacement

Effective employment policies. From global frameworks to local action

ITC/ILO online course

Effective employment policies. From global frameworks to local action

The main objective of the course is to strengthen the capacities of policymakers, including social partners to design and implement comprehensive policy employment frameworks.

Advancing Refugee Youth Leadership and Socio-Economic Inclusion for Sustainable Development
young men and a woman

Side event - 2025 ECOSOC Youth Forum

Advancing Refugee Youth Leadership and Socio-Economic Inclusion for Sustainable Development

This side event shines light on the leadership and self-reliance of young people in forcibly displaced contexts and demonstrates how supporting their work can address funding gaps and challenges in their communities and advance localization.