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Southern and Eastern African Youth Employment Knowledge Sharing Forum Opened

The Eastern and Southern Africa Youth Employment Knowledge Sharing Forum opened amidst a lot of fun-fare on 19 July 2015 at the Cresta Lodge in Msasa, Harare in Zimbabwe.

Press Release - Southern and Eastern African Youth Employment Knowledge Sharing Forum

The Southern and Eastern African Youth Employment Knowledge Sharing Forum kicks off.

Minister of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment visits ILO Supported Projects in Mashonaland East Province

The Minister of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment, Honourable Christopher Mushohwe, in his national familiarization tour as Minister of Youth, visited two projects under the “Skills for Youth Employment and Rural Development Programme”...

The Zimbabwe enterPRIZE Job Creation Challenge is launched!!!

The Zimbabwe enterPRIZE Job Creation Challenge, announced last week has now been launched! This was on the evening of Thursday, 11 June 2015 at the Cresta Lodge Hotel in Harare, before a gathering of over 70 people.

Statement by the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises and Cooperative Development, Honourable Ms S. Nyoni during the enterPRIZE Job...

Statement by the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises and Cooperative Development, Honourable Ms S. Nyoni during the enterPRIZE Job Creation Challenge Launch.

Joint Programme on Gender Equality empowers Women

The UN Joint Programme on Gender Equality (JPGE) - a SIDA (Sweden) funded programme, was developed broadly aimed at promoting women’s empowerment and gender equality. The different components: Pillar I on ‘promoting women’s security and combating...

Minister Mupfumira meets the ILO Director General Guy Ryder

Hon. Priscah Mupfumira, the new Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare met the ILO Director General on 23 March 2015, on the sidelines of the 323rd ILO Governing Body (GB) taking place from 15 to27 March 2015.

Youth income generating groups show promise

Through the Danish Government supported ILO ‘Skills for Youth Employment and Rural Development Programme’, young people organized in self-help groups in Beitbridge are running small enterprises after benefiting from community-based vocational...

Accelerating Industrialization in Southern Africa

Aeneas Chapinga Chuma, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa, will attend the 21st Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) on Industrialization in Southern Africa from 12-13 March 2015 in Victoria Falls,...

ILO: Progress on gender equality at work remains inadequate

Despite some progress made on achieving gender equality in the world of work since the 1995 Beijing Declaration on women rights, many challenges remain, including a motherhood pay gap.

Government and employers reaffirm commitment to labour reforms

The Employers' Confederation of Zimbabwe (EMCOZ), the ILO accredited representative of employer organizations in Zimbabwe, organized a half day interaction between employers and the newly appointed Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social...

ILO/SWHAP Road Safety and Wellness Camp

13 December 2014: The ILO, together with SWHAP (Swedish Workplace HIV/AIDS Programme) and Scania (a global company) organized wellness camp at at Korona stop over, about 70 km from Harare along the Masvingo - Beitbridge Highway (linking Zimbabwe to...

Kicking the ball against HIV/AIDS

As a build up to the World AIDS Day on 1 December, on Saturday 29 November 2014, the ILO partnered with the Swedish Workplace HIV/AIDS Programme (SWHAP) and one of its member companies Ericom in a soccer tournament to promote physical health,...

A Decent Work Agenda workshop for National Employment Councils in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions organized an orientation workshop for National Employment Councils on the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda.

ILO Director thanks youth from Glenview Complex

On Friday, 14 November 2014, the ILO Director, a.i, Ms Hopolang Phororo and the Skills project team visited the Glenview Complex to express their appreciation to the beneficiaries, District Implementing Committee, Provincial Implementing Committee,...

Danish Minister of Trade and Development Cooperation tours Skills for Youth Employment project in Harare

The Danish Minister of Trade and Development Cooperation, Honourable Mogen Jensen toured an ILO “Skills for Youth Employment and Rural Development” project at the Glenview Complex under Highfield District in Harare Province.

Skills are not in the hearing but in the hands

….says a nineteen year hearing impaired young man, as he recounted his story to the Danish Minister of Trade and International Cooperation, Morgen Jensen and the members of the Danida Grants Committee when they toured the Glenview Complex in Harare.

Welcoming Remarks by ILO Harare Director a.i on the visit of the Danish Minister of Trade and Development Cooperation and the Danida...

Welcoming Remarks by ILO Harare Director a.i on the visit of the Danish Minister of Trade and Development Cooperation and the Danida Grants Committee to Highglen Complex

The Power of positive thinking

The International Labour Organisatiuon (ILO)’s Project on Economic Empowerment & HIV Vulnerability Reduction is supporting women and men vulnerable to HIV in Beitbridge.

Pro-Poor Sustainable Growth and Economic Development: a ZUNDAF Priority

The UN in Zimbabwe has been supporting the Government and other stakeholders to promote pro-poor, sustainable growth and economic development.