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How PROSPECTS Partnership helps build resilience of hosts and refugees communities in Lebanon

Despite facing one of the worst socio-economic crisis in decades, Lebanon continues to host one of the highest number of refugee populations. The PROSPECTS Partnership supported by the Kingdom of Netherlands is providing education, employment and...

Youth Agri Market: a launching platform for entrepreneurs in Lebanon

Amid Lebanon’s multifaceted economic crisis, a joint collaboration between the ILO and UNICEF helped youth in the country achieve their entrepreneurial aspirations

ILO rolls out new technologies to expand social security coverage in Jordan

The ILO and the Social Security Corporation launched a WhatsApp chatbot to expand social security coverage and raise awareness of its benefits and programmes among the country’s vulnerable workers.

Equipping forcibly displaced youth in settlements in East Africa with skills to be changemakers

A group of 60 young people from forcibly displaced and host communities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda are benefitting from a collaboration between the ILO, UNHCR and UNICEF, enabling them to find solutions improving access of...

New command-and-control and operation centre launches in Jordan’s Labour Ministry

In line with the e-government vision, a new system supported by the ILO will help the Ministry boost efficiency and ease its operations during labour inspections. This is an important step in the quest to ensure decent work for all.

ILO and UNICEF support youth to prepare for work through Job Search Clubs in Jordan

More than 400 youth participate in intensive training in 20 locations across Jordan.

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Youth Network Committee to shape activities for the host and refugee youth in Ethiopia

The committee will provide strategic direction and guide implementation of the meaningful youth engagement programme of the ILO, UNHCR and UNICEF focusing on skills and socio-economic development of the youth in Ethiopia.

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ILO supported Business Development Service Providers Association established in Ethiopia

The association will provide its services to refugee and host community businesses and entrepreneurs in Ethiopia to improve their performance.

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Pastoralists in Ethiopia find a cure for hard-to-reach veterinary services

In remote and infrastructure deficient parts of Ethiopia, “Community Animal Health Workers” capacitated by ILO and its implementing partner are providing doorstep veterinarian services lowering hardships of the pastoralist community.

Making microfinance work in Sudan

With the aim to improve micro-finance ecosystem and financial inclusion of refugees and their host communities in Sudan, the ILO brought together key stakeholders from the banking and finance sector at a national workshop.

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Linking Lebanese hosts and Syrian refugees with jobs and labour market

In June 2022, the ILO and partners met with Lebanese and Syrian farm and plant nursery owners and workers and visited a skill-training centre in the north of Lebanon, who have benefitted from the activities of the mulit-agency PROSPECTS programme

ILO’s timely interventions assist small businesses in Uganda

Business support grants and business management training from the ILO provided a new lease of life to some of the microenterprises in Uganda struggling to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown measures.

Labour markets and the impact of skills recognition

Highlighting the launch of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and graduation of the first batch batch of workers through this programme, the article explains the challenges and future of RPL in Kenya.

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ILO training initiative brings new agricultural skills to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley

As Lebanon continues to reel under a multifaceted economic crisis, a competency-based training course conducted by the PROSPECTs programme gave Lebanese and Syrian trainees key skills needed to advance their career in Lebanon’s vital agricultural...

Labour intensive approaches promote social cohesion among host communities and refugees in Sudan

A series of training on the Employment Intensive Investment Programmes (EIIP) approach carried out by the ILO with construction work contractors in Sudan is showing promising results with host and refugee community members finding new employment...

Iraqi entrepreneurs access loans to support growing businesses

When Sandra was forcibly displaced, she set up a small business selling party decorations to support her young family. Now, with the support of the ILO, under an initiative with the Central Bank of Iraq and partner banks, Sandra and many others like...

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), a chance for career growth, change and inclusion

The ILO’s Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) project is supporting hundreds of Syrian and Jordanian workers access formal employment and decent work in targeted governorates in Jordan, through skills development, coaching and mentoring, and final,...

Jordan and ILO sign agreement to support the extension of social security coverage and promote formalization

The project will help extend social protection to Jordanian and non-Jordanian workers, including refugees, by subsidizing contributions and providing income support to promote their participation in the national social security system.

WorldSkills Africa underlined the importance of skills development for refugees

The ILO and its partners supported a team of trainers and a refugee contestant to participate in this internationally-recognized skills competition, providing them with a powerful opportunity to learn from global talents and strengthen their...

A new partnership boosts workers’ voices and labour rights in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

The ILO has embarked on the new partnership with the Kurdistan United Workers Unions to improve working conditions and address the needs of workers at Employment Intensive Investment Programme sites in Dohuk.