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Social Protection
Rethinking New Strategies For Pacific Communities - Covid-19 And Social Protection
International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020
Make persons with disabilities a priority during COVID-19 recovery in the Pacific
Youth employment
Targeted responses needed to combat youth employment crisis - ADB & ILO report
The joint Tackling the COVID-19 Youth Employment Crisis in Asia and the Pacific report says COVID-19 has triggered a massive disruption of labour markets which has had a disproportionate impact on youth unemployment.
ILO PARTNERSHIPS
ILO, ITC-ILO and PIPSO sign Letter of Intent to collaborate on capacity building of Pacific EBMO
The International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Training Centre Programme for Employers Activities (ITC-ILO/ACTEMP), and the Pacific Island Private Sector Organization (PIPSO) have concluded a cooperation agreement to further promote...
Pacific high-level forum on climate change and decent work
"We have to work for a process of productive transformation that protects our blue ocean and gives us all a future"
Guy Ryder addressed the Pacific high-level forum on climate change and decent work during the first visit of an ILO Director-General to a Pacific Island State.
Child labour
Vanuatu ratifies the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138)
Vanuatu has now ratified all of the 8 ILO Fundamental Conventions
Demand for entrepreneurship training on the rise
In an effort to improve the quality of entrepreneurship trainers in the Pacific, the ILO conducted a Training of Master Trainers on Start & Improve Your Business (SIYB) in Port Vila, Vanuatu
Environmental Sustainability and Decent Work
ILO and Japan International Cooperation Agency strengthen their partnership to promote waste management in the Pacific
The Memorandum of Cooperation signed between ILO and JICA will contribute to improve solid waste management in Pacific Island countries through a stronger partnership in the field of occupational safety and health in solid waste management and green...
Media Advisory
Strengthening Youth Entrepreneurship in the Pacific
The International Labour Organization (ILO) in partnership with ILO Pacific Community (SPC), Pacific Youth Council (PYC) and the Pacific Leadership Programme (PLP) are convening a 3 day regional summit on young entrepreneurship. The summit will be...
Our impact, their stories
Enabling people with disabilities to start their own business
An ILO-funded Start Your Own Business training and mentorship programme brings financial independence to people with disabilities in Vanuatu.
Young Entrepreneurs Council Vanuatu supported by Pacific Youth Council
ILO supports young entrepreneurs to be part of national private sector organizations in Vanuatu
Supporting self-employment for persons with disabilities in Vanuatu
The objective of this training and mentoring initiative is to support business start-ups for unemployed persons with disabilities to gain decent employment
News
Vanuatu trade union takes stock and maps future
The International Labour Organisation (ILO), through the Government of Japan funded Social Safety Net (SSN) Project, supported the VCTU with undertaking an assessment of its members who lost jobs, linking disenfranchised workers to Employment...
Green jobs
New services help Vanuatu recover from Cyclone Pam
As world leaders discuss climate change in Paris, the ILO is helping Vanuatu to rebuild stronger and greener to better prepare for future storms.
Trade Union supports disenfranchised workers after Pam
A programme is underway to build the institutional capacity of the Vanuatu Council of Trade Unions (VCTU) and support formal sector workers who lost jobs due to cyclone Pam.
Vanuatu Trade Unions: Building Back Better
Members of the Vanuatu Council of Trade Unions (VCTU) participated in workshop facilitated by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and funded by the Government of Japan, through the Social Safety Net Project.
Promoting decent work for older out-of-school children in or at risk of child labour
The ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries in conjunction with the International Training Centre for the ILO (ITC-ILO) conducted a Sub-Regional Skills and Livelihood Training for Older Out-Of-School Children in Child Labour or At Risk in the...
Domestic workers
ILO Pacific Office and UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office Celebrate Anniversary of the Adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) and Recommendation No. 201. These new standards, adopted in June 2011, are a strong recognition of the economic and social value of domestic work...
Vanuatu Department of Labour launches Employment Services Vanuatu (ESV) and calls on registrations
The three month pilot will focus on Shefa province and is designed to provide services to formal sector employees who lost jobs as a result of cyclone Pam and want to return to the workforce, including unemployed young people who are seeking career...
ILO conduct specialized training for gravel road construction in Vanuatu
A unique approach to gravel road construction and maintenance was the focus of a two week specialized training for 23 local staff of the Island Based Contractors (IBC) and the Public Works Department (PWD) from Tanna, Vanuatu last week.