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Tune in: iUpshift promotes youth Innovation in Music & Entrepreneurship
Through the ILO and UNICEF’s iUPSHIFT programme, young innovators are transforming their passion for music into groundbreaking inventions and sustainable businesses.
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Entrepreneurs fight malnutrition & women's health challenges in Uganda
Empowered through the ILO and UNICEF’s iUPSHIFT programme, refugee and host community youth in Uganda are driving change—tackling malnutrition with soybean products and improving women’s health with local remedies. See how innovation is transforming...
Strengthening collective bargaining and freedom of association to protect workers and eliminate child labour in Uganda’s coffee and tea...
As part of efforts to strengthen workers' rights, the ILO, through ACCEL Africa and ACTRAV, organized a workshop (24–26 March 2025) to train Ugandan trade unions on collective bargaining, freedom of association, and organizing workers in the coffee...
CLEAR Supply Chains project in Uganda
Strengthening child labour due diligence of coffee companies in Uganda
In the framework of the ILO’s Child Labour Platform (CLP), the CLEAR Supply Chains project provided capacity building on child labour due diligence to coffee company members of the CLP who source from Uganda.
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ILO strengthens labour dispute resolution in Uganda
Judges and legal officers receive training on applying international labour standards, enhancing their ability to resolve disputes, including those affecting refugees and displaced workers.
CLEAR Supply Chains project in Uganda
Training of trainers for coffee farmers under the Women’s Leadership and Empowerment Programme (WLEP) in Kalungu district, Uganda
The CLEAR Supply Chains project trained female coffee famers in Kalungu district, in Uganda, on women’s leadership and empowerment.
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Hotel management apprenticeship empowers refugee and host community youth in Uganda
Through the transformative apprenticeship program in Uganda, the ILO and its partners are empowering refugee and host community youth with hospitality skills, fostering employment, and addressing industry gaps through strategic partnerships and...
Labour Migration in East and Horn of Africa
Strengthening labour migration statistics in East & Horn of Africa (EHoA)
The regional training and peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing event addressed significant gaps in labour migration statistics across EHoA and strengthen institutional capacities for data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
Stakeholders agree to strengthen labour protection in Uganda’s growing digital economy
The third thematic session of the Community of Practice on Decent Work in the Digital Economy led by the ILO and FUE highlighted the need for adapting legal and regulatory frameworks to ensure decent work for digital workers.
Labour Migration in East and Horn of Africa
Building Robust Labour Market Systems and Supporting Returned Migrants in Uganda
National Strategy on Skills Development for Labour Migration launched in Kenya
Cooperatives promote decent work in Uganda's coffee supply chain
Organized on November 19, 2024, the event presented preliminary findings of an assessment carried out by the ILO in Uganda in the coffee supply chains. It allowed coffee stakeholders to engage in a discussion on the challenges of achieving decent...
Labour Migration in East and Horn of Africa
Enhancing the quality of TVET’s Programs in Ethiopia to better respond to Migrants need
The ILO BRMM monitoring missions conducted in Jima, Shashemene, Asella, and other towns highlighted the importance of integrating skills development and financial inclusion initiatives to support migrants in Ethiopia.
Empowering communities to combat child labour: The Mwezze Hack
This article highlights the Community Hackathon held in Mbale, Uganda, where young people from vulnerable communities came together to develop innovative solutions to combat child labour. Through teamwork and creativity, participants identified key...
Labour Migration in East and Horn of Africa
Boosting Growth in Assela's Poultry Sector Through Innovation
Promoting innovation and enhancing local economic opportunities through a creative business idea competition for the poultry industry in Ethiopia.
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How the ILO supports digital transformation of Uganda's Industrial Court
CAPSA Partners' regional knowledge sharing and closeout conference
CAPSA Project Celebrating Wins
Celebrating the wins in the fight against child labour, forced labour, trafficking in persons and violations of acceptable conditions of work.
Labour Migration in East and Horn of Africa
A step forward in improving labour migration governance in Somalia: Labour Migration Policy validated
Refining and finalizing a policy framework in Somalia designed to strengthen labour migration governance and address existing policy gaps.
Labour Migration in East and Horn of Africa
Strengthening the Capacity of Key Migration Actors in Africa on Labour Migration
Labour Migration in East and Horn of Africa
Building Sustainable Futures: Entrepreneurship Training for Returned Migrant Workers in Uganda
Enabling returned migrants with SIYB training to engage in sustainable livelihoods through self-employment or wage employment.
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