All news: Ghana

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining

Child labour in mining, poor working conditions take centre stage in inter-regional meeting

With the growing global movement to support just transition and formalization of artisanal and small-scale gold mines, the ILO brought together experts and global actors to address child labour and poor working conditions in an inter-regional...

Emerging Insight: Digitization of renewal processes

The SKILL – UP Project Launches in Ghana

International Labour Orgnaization (ILO) launches the SKILL UP project in Ghana. The project will focus on skills development in Agriculture, Tourism & Hospitality and the Construction sectors.

ILO promotes children’s rights through education, the arts and media training

The ILO’S CARING Gold Mining project supports the promotion of children’s right by enhancing capacity of stakeholders on the use of the ILO Supporting Children’s Rights through Education Art and Media (SCREAM) methodology. Child Labour Away!!!

Highlights of new study assessing the impact of increasing domestic processing of cocoa in Ghana on employment and job creation presented...

The new study was conducted by the STRENGTHEN project, a joint ILO-European Union global initiative.

ILO supports capacity building of trade union leaders in West Africa for Policy Formulation

In an effort to improve participation of workers’ organisations in West Africa in the National Employment policy making process, ILO’s Bureau for Workers' Activities organised a capacity building workshop for effective engagement with policy makers.

ILO STRENGTHEN Project Stakeholders in Ghana call for improved Infrastructure in Agro Processing and Infrastructure.

To strengthen the employment dimension in policies and programmes related to international trade, the ILO Strengthen Project organized a working group meeting to commission and discuss project studies on Housing and Cocoa processing

Social Protection

Ghana: Thinking outside the box gives public insurance scheme a huge boost

The ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility has helped Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme save money and improve customer service.

Better adapting migration policies to labour market needs would help Ghana’s economy, says new ILO -OECD Development Centre report

Caring Gold Mining Project: Commemorates World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL), 2018 in Ghana

The ILO through its ILO Caring Gold Mining Project, supports World Day against Child Labour (WDACL)-2018 activities in Ghana under the theme “Resist Child Labour! Improve the Safety and Health of Young Workers towards achieving SDG Goal8”.

Towards the urgent elimination of hazardous child labour

“Children are more vulnerable to risk than adults. Urgent action is needed to ensure no child under the age of 18 is in hazardous child labour,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on the occasion of World Day against Child Labour.

ILO supports the revision of the half-century old cooperative bill in Ghana

The ILO is supporting the revision of the cooperative bill established in 1968 in Ghana.

The ILO Constituents in Ghana Call for Mainstreaming of the principle of “a Just Transition towards Environmental Sustainability…” into...

The effects of climate change call for implementation of measures that would mitigate its impact on societies. In an effort to achieve the “Just Transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all”, the ILO Country office...

Piloting ApexFinCoop - a training programme for financial cooperatives' apex organizations in Ghana

As principle-driven and member-owned businesses, financial cooperatives are among the key institutions to advance financial inclusion particularly in rural areas and for those who face challenges in accessing these services through other types of...

ILO World Social Protection Report 2017-2019 : 82 per cent of Africans are left without social protection

New ILO report shows that massive efforts are still needed to ensure that the right to social security becomes a reality for all. The World Social Protection Report launched in Abuja December 12, 2017.

ILO Launches SCORE Phase III in Ghana

The Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) programme of the ILO enters its third phase of implementation expected to run till 2021 in Ghana.

Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon of Nigeria Appointed ILO Assistant Director General and Regional Director for Africa

Ms. Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, the new ILO Regional Director for Africa, took part in the High Level Conference on “a renewed partnership with Africa” in Brussels as part of the European Parliament’s Africa Week. She also addressed the European...

Trade unions and producer organizations join forces to tackle child labour in agriculture

In September 2017 over 20 representatives of rural workers’ trade unions, national trade union centres, and small producers’ organizations, including cooperatives, from 13 countries in Africa convened in Ghana. The purpose of the workshop was to...

ILO supports Ghana to strengthen the impact of Sector and Trade Policies on Employment

The ILO, in collaboration with tripartite partners gathered at the 4TH Policy Working Group meeting of the STRENGTHEN Project, adopted a roadmap and action plans for improving policy impact in Ghana.

African cooperative leaders share their observations on the 2017 ILO/JCCU study tour in Japan

The 8th edition of the ILO/Japanese Consumers' Cooperative Union (JCCU) Study Tour for African Cooperative Leaders took place in Japan from 29 August to 6 September 2017 with participants from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Swaziland and representatives...