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Regional Meeting adopts Decent Work Agenda in Africa 2007-15: Sets ambitious targets to be achieved by 2015

Faced with a continental challenge of growth that is failing to create enough better quality jobs to stop rising unemployment and an increasing number of people living in poverty, top worker, employer and government representatives of the ILO's...

UNDP Administrator calls for urgent measures to create new jobs and reduce widespread poverty in Africa: Decent Work "at the heart of...

UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis, speaking at the ILO's 11th African Regional Meeting here, has called for poverty reduction strategies that "fully integrate the employment dimension," adding that "Decent Work is at the heart of development and has...

11th African Regional Meeting (Addis Ababa, 24-27 April 2007): The power of dialogue: When words combine with actions

The old adage goes "actions speak louder than words", but when it comes to governance, words are essential. A new report prepared for the ILO's African Regional Meeting on 24-27 April, shows how an ILO project targeting seven enterprises in two...