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Financial inclusion
How inclusive banking is creating opportunities for refugees and host communities in Ethiopia
Through their partnership, the ILO and Shabelle Bank are expanding access to affordable, inclusive finance, helping refugees and host communities in Ethiopia’s Somali Region grow businesses and build more resilient livelihoods.
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African tripartite partners advance policy pathways for decent work in displacement at regional meeting
The International Labour Organization along with governments and employers’ and workers’ organizations discussed more inclusive labour markets benefiting refugees and host communities during a regional forum.
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PROSPECTS Africa Forum launches regional dialogue on decent work and forced displacement
The three-day regional forum brings together governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, regional institutions and development partners to advance policy solutions that expand decent work opportunities for refugees and host communities.
International day of cooperatives
A youth-led poultry cooperative gives entrepreneurs in Ethiopia a pathway to decent work
With support from the ILO, a cooperative in Addis Ababa is showing how a sustainable enterprise can strengthen livelihoods and help create opportunities for young people.
Voices from ILO PROSPECTS
A grant, a business plan and 300 chickens: how ILO-supported competition helps poultry farmer grow in Ethiopia
Through entrepreneurship training and access to finance under the PROSPECTS programme, Hussien Saleman has expanded Al Nur Poultry Farm, created jobs for young people and strengthened local supply chains in Ethiopia’s Somali Region.
PROSPECTS Impact
From skills to income: youth in Ethiopia turn training and grants into businesses
Supported by the ILO’s Youth-to-Youth Fund, refugee and host community youth in Ethiopia are using business training and seed funding to launch enterprises and generate income.
PROSPECTS Impact
Climate solutions drive dairy livelihoods for refugee and host communities in Ethiopia
A partnership led by the ILO is helping refugee and host communities in Ethiopia’s Somali Region increase incomes and build resilience through climate-smart dairy solutions.
PROSPECTS Impact
Young refugees and Ethiopians turn skills into thriving businesses with ILO support
Young refugees and host community members in Addis Ababa are gaining access to skills development, employment opportunities, finance and market linkages through the ILO-supported Youth-to-Youth Fund (Y2YF), implemented under the PROSPECTS programme...
PROSPECTS Impact
From migration dreams to local success: Empowering refugees and host communities in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, two young entrepreneurs – one a refugee, the other from the host community – transform uncertainty into opportunity through the ILO Youth-to-Youth Fund, building businesses that create jobs and restore hope.
PROSPECTS Impact
From a small shop to a growing enterprise: Youth entrepreneurship support transforms a family tailoring business in Ethiopia
Ziyin Tesfa, a young entrepreneur in Addis Ababa, transformed her family’s tailoring shop after participating in the ILO-supported Youth‑to‑Youth Fund (Y2YF) project. Through entrepreneurship, financial literacy and digital marketing training,...
PROSPECTS Impact
ILO-supported coworking hub is expanding opportunities for youth in Ethiopia
Young people in Jigjiga, Ethiopia, are benefiting from the coworking space, where they learn, collaborate and pursue decent work opportunities.
PROSPECTS Impact
ILO-supported skill training creates pathways to decent work for refugees in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State, where refugees often face limited access to formal employment, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is strengthening pathways to decent work and self-reliance through targeted, market-driven skills...
PROSPECTS Impact
With ILO, Ethiopia’s Jigjiga University transforms into an entrepreneurship hub
The partnership between the ILO and Jigjiga University is driving the institutionalization of the ILO’s globally recognized tools and the creation of a dynamic Business and Technology Incubation Center, fostering entrepreneurship for host and...
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ILO empowers refugee and host communities in Ethiopia through digital skills training
216 refugee and host community graduates complete digital skills programmes at the Jigjiga Digital Innovation Hub, opening new pathways to decent work and livelihoods in Ethiopia’s Somali Region.
Financial inclusion
Trust becomes collateral: Inclusive finance empowers refugees and hosts in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia’s Somali region the ILO and Shabelle Bank are dismantling cultural barriers to improve access to finance enabling refugees and host communities to build sustainable livelihoods.
PROSPECTS Impact
Turning arts into opportunity: How Youth-to-Youth Fund transformed a refugee dance group
A group of 15 young Eritrean refugees in Addis Ababa turned their passion for performing arts into a sustainable livelihood after targeted grant from the International Labour Organization eliminated their highest recurring cost – renting essential...
PROSPECTS podcast
Talent beyond borders: Why businesses should hire young refugees
Discover how businesses can unlock innovation and resilience by hiring young refugees. In this episode, Ingka Group’s Roman Bojko shares lessons from integrating refugee talent across 26 countries.
PROSPECTS Impact
From daily labourers to skilled entrepreneurs: How plumbing training transformed lives in Ethiopia
In the dusty streets of Kebribeyah town, a quiet transformation is underway. What began as a three-month plumbing training at the Kebribeyah Vocational Training Satellite Center has changed into a thriving business, so far changing the lives of four...
PROSPECTS Impact
Unemployed graduate builds her own business with ILO's support
With support from the ILO’s Youth-to-Youth Fund (Y2YF), Amal Irshad Abdirahman, a 24-year-old entrepreneur, transformed job rejections into success, turning her homemade beauty products into a thriving business that’s changing lives in Jigjiga,...
PROSPECTS podcast - Refugees at Work
Refugee inclusion in practice: Experiences, outcomes, and impacts
This final episode of the series examines how the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDPN) shapes refugee livelihoods and host community economies. Svein Erik Stav (Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research) and Tewodros Aragie Kebede...