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‘Building back fair’ with gender equality at the centre of the recovery policies

Ms Dagmar Walter, Director, ILO DWT South Asia and India at the CII IWN Women Nation Summit, Impact on Women in the Informal Economy

Making rural communities in India resilient to climate shocks and disasters

This ILO’s Social Finance project works on protecting vulnerable agriculture communities and jobs against weather and climate risks. Leveraging our experience we are now working with IFAD to develop a proposal for a new integrated financing...

Emerging Insight: Women can become powerful advocates for insurance within local communities

Women's empowerment

SCOPE and ILO to undertake a joint study on women empowerment in India

Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE), an apex body of Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) and ILO signed an understanding for a Joint Study on “Women Empowerment - Adoption of Work from Home Model.”

Social health protection

ILO partnership: Mahidol University and the ILO launch specialised Master’s Program developed to advance Social Health Protection in Asia

To strengthen the capacity of Social Health Protection (SHP) professionals in Asia, a Master’s Program in Primary Health Care Management and Social Health Protection has been launched at Mahidol University, Thailand.

Kerala flood response

Video: Working Back Better - The ILO Story | Kerala Flood Response

On requests received for support from State constituents, ILO in collaboration with its constituents facilitated response for Kerala Floods in 2018

Kerala flood response

Video: Working Back Better - The ILO Story | Kerala Flood Response (Hindi)

On requests received for support from State constituents, ILO in collaboration with its constituents facilitated response for Kerala Floods in 2018

Kerala flood response

Video: Working Back Better - The ILO Story | Kerala Flood Response (Malayalam)

On requests received for support from State constituents, ILO in collaboration with its constituents facilitated response for Kerala Floods in 2018

Social dialogue brings forwards the realities of world of work

Ms. Dagmar Walter, Director, ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India provided her opening remarks at the Virtual meeting with Trade Unions on Draft Wage Rules

WORK FROM HOME

Employers’ Federation of India (EFI) releases Work From Home (WFH) Guide

The EFI Work From Home (WFH) Guide intends to facilitate members, clients and partners to respond to the prevailing COVID 19 related crisis or for those who see it as an opportunity to replace the current jobs or co-opt WFH along with the current...

IT for Change hosts a webinar on the potential of cooperatives as a means to organize workers in the platform economy

IT for Change organized a session “Going co-op: A platform model for workers in the South” as part of RightsCon, an annual summit bringing together multidisciplinary actors from technologists, business leaders, and activists to journalists, and...

Together we will be able to build back better

Ms Dagmar Walter provided keynote address at the webinar on ILO’s response to the pandemic - Learning and sharing of global practices organized by Standing Conference of Public Enterprises.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

HomeNet South Asia, a network of home-based worker organisations across all South Asian countries

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE)....

Act now, to protect children from child labour!

Ms Dagmar Walter’s message on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour, 2020 for protecting children from COVID-19 pandemic and its impact.

ILO COOP 100 Interview

Interview with Edgar Parnell, Cooperative Practitioner

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...

ILO COOP 100 Interview

Interview with Robby Tulus, ex-ICA AP Regional Director, cooperative consultant

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...

Emerging Insight: Postal networks are facilitating doorstep banking during COVID-19

A Policy Framework For India’s Covid-19 Migration

Shabari Nair, Regional Migration Expert and Divya Verma, Programme Officer with ILO DWT South Asia and India wrote together a column providing outline for the country’s migration policy framework.

In times of crisis, solidarity between government, workers and employers is paramount

Statement from ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and India about the evolving COVID-19 response mechanisms in India.

ILO COOP 100 Webinar II - Advancing gender equality though cooperatives

Four cooperative practitioners reflected on the current situation of gender equality within the cooperative movement, the role cooperatives can play, and the challenges they face in advancing gender equality. Their presentations highlighted the...