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Ghana Launches First OSH Profile to Boost Workplace Safety

Ghana’s inaugural OSH Profile sets a new benchmark for safer, healthier workplaces, guiding reforms and protecting millions of workers, especially in the informal economy.

Pioneering change: Elizabeth Sarfo becomes one of Ghana’s first certified financial education trainers.

Elizabeth Sarfo becomes one of Ghana’s first ILO-certified financial education trainers, empowering cooperatives and VSLAs with practical financial skills to strengthen livelihoods and help prevent child labour through the ACCEL Africa project,...

In Ghana financial skills, stronger futures: A mother’s path to keeping her children in school

From daily hustle to financial control: Lydia’s breakthrough

Building Skills for Tomorrow: ILO, GIZ, and CTVET Unite to Strengthen Ghana’s Workforce

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has commended Ghana for its progress in operationalizing Sector Skills Bodies (SSBs) and pledged continued support to make technical and vocational education and training (TVET) more responsive to industry...

Committee on World Food Security

The ILO highlights evidence-based approaches for decent jobs in agri-food systems

The ILO and partners showcased the power of data to improve livelihoods and ensure that agrifood systems deliver inclusive and sustainable decent work for workers in the sector.

Cairo seminar empowers trade unions to lead the Just Transition

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has kicked off a regional advocacy seminar in Cairo, bringing together trade union leaders from Africa and the Arab States to promote social justice and decent work within a just transition framework,...

Ghana-Switzerland exchange: Lessons in innovation and sustainability for the textile and garment industry

Ghana launches its first Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) profile

Ghana has released its first Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Profile, outlining major system gaps, inspector shortages, informal sector risks, and a roadmap for a coordinated national OSH policy. Supported by the ILO, the profile will guide...

Teresa’s journey from failed ventures to financial confidence in Ghana

In Adonoi, Ghana, entrepreneur Teresa Oppong turned her five small businesses into a story of resilience and financial empowerment. Through financial literacy training supported by the ILO’s ACCEL Africa Project, she learned to budget, plan, and...

Protecting children in the mines of Nkatieso: The story of Eric Nkrumah

In Nkatieso, Ghana, miner Eric Nkrumah is helping keep children out of mining and back in school through awareness and action supported by the ILO’s ACCEL Africa project.

Child labour

Japan and ILO support cocoa farmers to fight child labour through climate-smart solutions

A high-level ILO mission, joined by the Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, visited the Climate Cocoa Project in Bibiani to witness the impact of Japan-funded efforts to eliminate child labour through climate-smart farming and stronger child protection...

Financial resilience through Village Savings and Loans Associations: The Story of Vida Amponsah

In Ghana’s cocoa-growing community of Nsuontam, 57-year-old grandmother Vida Amponsah has transformed her life through a Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) supported by the ILO’s ACCEL Africa project.

Ghana’s employers and workers unite in a call for bold reforms to drive productivity and decent jobs

Employers and workers agree wage growth needs to follow labour productivity more closely, but the Government needs to change its tack for true economic and social transformation.

Experts advanced draft model law on labour Migration in Africa

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How my data collection work empowers Ghana’s farmers

Kalian Sampoa Gumah shares a day in her life as a survey enumerator in Ghana, collecting data from farming households and farm workers to inform employment policies and empower rural communities.

Rebuilding trust through financial education – Juliet's journey

Discover how financial education is rebuilding trust in Ghana’s banking system. Follow Juliet’s journey from loss and distrust to empowerment through the ILO ACCEL Africa Project’s training, showing how financial literacy transforms lives and...

ILO empowers cocoa farmers in Bibiani to tackle climate change and child labour through Biochar innovation

ILO’s CLIMATE Cocoa project trained 48 Ghanaian farmers in biochar production to boost climate resilience and reduce child labour.

JobAgri Ghana

Boosting Decent Work in Ghana’s Agrifood Sector: JobAgri Ghana Leads Stakeholder Workshop

Workshop presents new labour survey findings and builds national capacity for integrating employment and agricultural policies.

World Day against Child Labour

Ghana marks World Day against Child Labour with strong calls for collective action in Bibiani

This article covers Ghana’s national commemoration of the World Day Against Child Labour held in Bibiani on 19 June 2025. Supported by the ILO’s ACCEL Africa project and partners, the event highlighted progress, challenges, and renewed commitments...

ILO promotes industrial engineering as catalyst for productivity improvements in factories

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is collaborating with the Association of Ghana Apparel Manufacturers (AGAM) to support the creation of industrial engineering departments in garment factories. This initiative is one of the strategies to...