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« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | EGYPT - “Without the job search club, I would have never thought about applying for a job outside my field of...

An ILO’s project in Egypt helps young women and men without professional experience to find their first job, including an unemployed archaeologist from Luxor.

« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | EGYPT - “The new organic fertilizer has led to better fruit and vegetable crops.”

An Egyptian farm owner explains how an ILO biogas pilot project made it possible for him to both increase productivity and improve the environment.

« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | EGYPT - “The ILO project will contribute to the elimination of child labour in Egypt’s cotton supply chain”

CAIRO, June 17, 2019 – Egypt is one of the six countries covered by a new ILO project to accelerate the elimination of child labour in African supply chains. It is likely to have a major impact on thousands of children’s lives throughout the country.

« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | EGYPT - “I learned a lot more than just CV-writing”

ILO helps young Egyptian graduates who have been outside the job market for some time to find work through job search clubs.

ACCEL Africa holds its first regional consultation meeting in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

National project coordinators and tripartite representatives from six countries covered by the Accel Africa project, participated in its first regional consultation meeting held in Abidjan.

Youth Employment Project in Egypt Receives Teamwork Award

“Decent Jobs for Egypt’s Young People – Tackling the Challenge Together” project receives “Teamwork” award in this years’ ILO recognition award competition

Middle East and North Africa

Conflict and mass displacement increase child labour

Conflict and crisis in the Middle East and North Africa has led to an increase in child labour across the region, including in children’s involvement in armed conflict and other illicit activities, a new report finds.

ILO and Sida enhance decent work in North Africa

The International Labour Organization has signed a cooperation agreement with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to further support the different dimensions of the decent work agenda in North Africa countries.

World Day Against Child Labour

Football match to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in Egypt

The ILO Cairo Office celebrated the World Day Against Child Labour on 13 June 2018 with a musical entertainment performance for the children followed by a football match.

Apprenticeship in Egypt

ILO launches the review of apprenticeship systems in Egypt

The ILO and the Embassy of Switzerland co-hosted a working breakfast in Cairo on 13 March 2018 to launch the findings of an ILO legal review titled “Apprenticeship in Egypt– Towards a Unified System?”.

International Women's Day 2018

Improving job opportunities for rural women through better results measurement

The ILO and IFAD supported Taqeem Initiative pilots innovative M&E strategies for women and youth in the MENA region.

Career Guidance

ILO introduces career guidance training for Arabic speakers

ILO provides strategic tools for planners and decision makers from Egypt for career guidance policies and practices.

Promoting rural women economic empowerment through cooperatives in Upper Egypt

Our impact, their voices

ILO's entrepreneurial skills development programme makes dreams come true

Instead of living in a stagnated environment, they started to see that community challenges and needs could actually activate community engagement and can even be the starting point of a social business that generates a living.

Youth and Employment in North Africa Conference

ILO to host the first High-Level Conference on Youth and Employment in North Africa

COOP Champions

Badra Alawa, ILO DWT/CO-Cairo

COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. It highlights their contributions, and shares highlights of their experiences, current work, and future...

Our impact, their voices

Job search clubs run by the ILO gain momentum in Egypt

ILO helps young Egyptian graduates and young people who have been outside the job market for some time to find work through job search clubs.

High female education and low labour participation rates: IFAD and ILO tackle the “MENA gender paradox”

Issue explored at policy forum facilitated by a grant-funded project on gender monitoring and evaluation in the Near East and North Africa.

Better Work

ILO improves working conditions in 30 factories in Egypt

From July to December 2017, Better Work is implementing a pilot of its services in 30 factories, primarily in Egypt’s garment sector.

World Day against Child Labour

ILO marks the World Day against Child Labour 2017 with songs

The ILO Cairo Office celebrated the World Day against Child Labour on 4 June 2017 with a unique musical performance of “Children of Egypt Choir” led by the international Maestro Selim Sahab.