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Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia

What moves the needle on gender equality in the garment sector?

Dialogue, men’s involvement, good legislation and time. A new report from ILO identifies these and other ingredients of successful actions to eliminate gender inequality in Asia’s garment sector.

Final evaluation of the Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy Policy in Asia Project

The final evaluation report summarizes key findings, conclusions, lessons learned and recommendations from the “Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy Policy in Asia” project.

Women entrepreneurs connect across ASEAN

Networking event helps women entrepreneurs forge business relationships and draw strength and inspiration from their peers across ASEAN.

Skills development

Skills and Future of Work Partner Forum: National Structured Funding Dialogue

To seek support and engagement from stakeholders to achieve its skills and lifelong learning vision, the International Labour Organization (ILO), in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT), held a hybrid half-day...

The Director-General of the ILO reacts to the arrest of striking workers in Phnom Penh in a letter to the Prime Minister of Cambodia

Equipping online facilitation skills to better support MSMEs during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

In an effort to support the recovery of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises from the COVID-19 pandemic, the ILO organized two online workshops on “Online Facilitation and Activity-Based Learning” for capacity building for development...

Informal businesses

Strengthening informal businesses in India through Activity-Based Learning - Lessons from cases in Lao People's Democratic Republic and...

The ILO organized an online workshop on “Delivering Impactful Support for Informal Businesses” for Indian ministries, sectoral associations and development organizations which support development of informal businesses. The workshop presented...

Ship to Shore Rights South East Asia (SEA)

Return migrant workers in Cambodia receive COVID-19 relief assistance from European Union and ILO

The Ship to Shore Rights South East Asia Programme provides relief assistance to more than 1,700 Cambodian migrant workers returning to Cambodia in partnership with CENTRAL.

ILO/China Partnership Project

New skills network to promote South-South cooperation launched

Press release

Over 4400 youth gather online to celebrate Cambodia Entrepreneurship Day 2021

Cambodia Entrepreneurship Day 2021, organized by the International Labour Organization and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, brought together 4417 young people to celebrate entrepreneurship and new business ideas online.

Asia-Pacific labour market insights

Getting older: Confronting Asia and the Pacific’s ageing labour force

Asia and the Pacific’s ageing population is a trend that is expected to steadily increase. Ageing societies means older labour forces and higher old-age dependency ratios, increasing the pressures on economies to close pension and social protection...

Press release

Cambodia commits to expanding decent work for migrants in the fishing and seafood processing sectors

With support from the European Union, the ILO and Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training launched the Ship to Shore Rights South East Asia Programme with key stakeholders in Cambodia and agreed upon a work plan of activities.

ILO COOP holds follow up activities as part of the project on Strengthen Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) policy in Asia

A number of follow-up activities are being held to disseminate key outputs of the project on Strengthening SSE Policy in Asia.

Press release

ILO forecasts slow jobs recovery in ASEAN region

Upward trend in COVID-19 cases and slow vaccine roll out likely to prolong the labour market crisis and hamper recovery.

Asia Garment Hub - A digital gateway to sustainability and decent work resources for the garment and textiles industry - is launched

The Asia Garment Hub, a one-stop digital knowledge platform to help industry stakeholders understand, promote and operationalise decent work and sustainable business practices across the supply chain was launched today.

Interview

10 years on from the ILO Domestic Workers Convention: What has changed?

Over half of the world’s domestic workers are in Asia and the Pacific. 10 years on from the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), Anna Olsen, Technical Specialist at the International Labour Organization’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN...

Indonesia strengthens its internal coordination for work in fishing

To be more compliant with ILO Convention No. 188 on Work in Fishing, ILO assisted a technical meeting to strengthen coordination with stakeholders to better protect workers in the fishing sector.

Call for research proposals

Case Studies on the Intersectional Impacts of Air Pollution on the World of Work of Vulnerable Groups including Women and Youth in...

Green jobs in ASEAN

Further policy strengthening required for green jobs to meet full ASEAN potential

First of its kind regional study highlights policy readiness of Association of Southeast Asian Nations to green their economies and areas where additional policies are required to capture full potential of shift towards green jobs and a just...

ILO’s entrepreneurship programmes to be integrated in Cambodia’s national education curriculum

Key facilitators and government officials from the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) took part in a 3-day online workshop on ILO’s Know About Business (KAB) training, helping further integrate this youth training programme...