All news: Kenya
Enhancing Access to HIV Testing and social protection in Kenya
The ILO is prioritising both the scaling up of HIV-sensitive Social Protection and the VCT@WORK Initiative in Kenya and the strategy has been to build synergies between the two priorities. An innovative approach towards enhancing access to HIV...
ILO signs new agreement with the Netherlands on forced displacement response
PROSPECTS Partnership: Putting decent work at the nexus between humanitarian action and development cooperation
African cooperative leaders share their observations on the 10th ILO-JCCU Study Tour
African cooperative leaders visited Japanese cooperatives and exchanged knowledge and practices in improving members’ livelihoods and addressing various development challenges in the changing world of work.
ILO, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung to strengthen partnership in Africa
New Memorandum of Understanding underscores renewed commitment to social justice, with focus on workers’ rights, labour migration, youth employment and the informal economy.
« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | KENYA - “Our programme combines HIV testing and social protection awareness for workers in the informal economy”
An innovative ILO programme increases awareness of workers in the informal economy to get tested on HIV and to join social protection schemes.
« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | KENYA - “Green jobs are essential to economic growth and the reduction of unemployment”
NAIROBI, Kenya (ILO News) – Forty-year-old entrepreneur, Magdalene Saitoti, is among the Kenyans to benefit from a project aimed at creating green jobs in the building industry, reducing poverty in pastoralist communities and strengthening the...
« 100 YEARS – 100 LIVES » | DJIBOUTI – ETHIOPIA – ERITREA – KENYA – SOMALIA – SUDAN – SOUTH SUDAN – UGANDA - “Improving labour mobility and...
The ILO is implementing a project to improve opportunities for regulated labour mobility and decent work within the IGAD countries.
Sharing research findings on the potential of cooperatives in promoting universal health coverage
On June 20, 2019 the ILO co-organized a meeting on the “Cooperatives for Health” initiative at the Biotech Campus in Geneva.
Emerging Insight: Developing partnerships with governments to offer agriculture insurance
IGAD member states discuss labour migration, mobility governance and skills development
ILO partners with IGAD and EU to validate findings of two studies on assessment of labour migration and mobility governance, and potentials of skills development for regulated labour mobility in the IGAD Region.
ILO hosts partners meeting on cooperative responses to advancing public health
ILO hosts partners meeting to discuss the next steps on research exploring the potential of cooperatives to advance public health in Cameroon and Kenya.
Discussing next steps toward advancing universal health coverage through cooperatives
During the Geneva Health Forum in April 2018, the research findings on the potential of cooperatives in advancing universal health coverage were presented to discuss next steps with a range of stakeholders.
ILO sponsors training on agricultural cooperative management through My.Coop distance learning programme
Since 2012 the International Training Centre of the ILO has organized a distance learning Training of Trainers programme on My.Coop – Managing your agricultural cooperative training package. The latest edition took place in late 2017, with...
Exploring the potential of cooperatives in advancing universal health coverage
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...
African cooperative leaders explore the diverse businesses of Japanese cooperatives
From 29 August to 6 September, The 8th ILO/JCCU study tour was organized in Tokyo and Shizuoka, Japan. This year four participants from Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Swaziland and representatives of ICA Africa and ILO COOP Unit joined the tour to...
Kenyan woman entrepreneur breaking gender barriers in a manufacturing production floor through training
She trains young people without employable skills and employs 22 apprentices annually
Senior representatives of 14 African countries discuss quality apprenticeships to address youth unemployment and skills mismatch
Learning Forum to discuss promotion of quality apprenticeships in order to address skills mismatch and youth unemployment in the African region
Ministerial Conference and 4th Agritec Africa Exhibition
Harnessing the Potential of Youth for Economic Growth and Prosperity
Our impact, their voices
How Kenya’s construction industry boosts green jobs and housing
Innovative ILO project aims to reduce Kenya’s vulnerability to climate risks and improve livelihoods among traditional pastoralist communities.
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