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ILO, IGAD urge journalists to enhance reporting on labour migration in the IGAD region

ILO Empowers 431 Trainees in Ondo and Osun States and hands over Renovated School to Community

To sustain its interventions on the elimination of child labour, the ACCEL Africa Project in Nigeria has provided training, classroom renovation and livelihood support to parents, guardians, and children within the legal working age in Project...

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The ILO Director-General Guy Ryder celebrated the successes of his colleagues in Africa

The Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) ended this Wednesday, September 7, 2022, a 48-hour visit to Côte d'Ivoire that allowed him to bid farewell to Africa after ten years at the head of the institution.

Addressing capacity gaps of cooperatives towards creating decent jobs and profitability for its members

In Uganda, the ACCEL project provides opportunities to vulnerable youth through life and technical skills training

Harnessing the power of technology: delivering cost-effective digital training on child labour to field officers in remote areas using...

Experience of ACCEL Mali with VIAMO

The Government of Sierra Leone Through NASSIT in collaboration with the ILO trains members of the technical and steering committee on the...

The government of Sierra Leone through the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations have kickstarted a new initiative to extend social protection to the informal sector.

Tripartite representation in the launch of the new Strategic Plan of the Employers’ Association of South Sudan

After hard years of civil war, the ILO Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ACT/EMP) supports the development and implementation of the Employers’ Association of South Sudan’s Strategic Plan 2021-2025.

Accelerated schooling strategy (SSA/P) in Mali

The International Labour Organization (ILO), through the ACCEL Africa and CLEAR Cotton projects, with the financial support of the Japanese Association for the Progress of ILO Activities, delivered on July 21, 2022, in Bamako, kits of school...

The African Union holds a Consultative Meeting of Civil Society Organizations on its draft Ten-Year Strategy on the Social and Solidarity...

The Consultative Meeting took place on 24th-25th August 2022 in Windhoek, Namibia with the participation of representatives of cooperatives, associations, and international organizations. ILO participated in the meeting with a presentation on the...

Validation workshop to adopt the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to combat child labour

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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.

ILO facilitates convening a Coordination Meeting of the Technical Working Committee on Labour Migration Governance in Nigeria

In a bid to improve coordination among stakeholders working in the area of labour migration governance and management in Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment convened a one-day meeting to discuss policy implementation and emerging...

The Government of Nigeria validates a Pre-Departure Orientation Seminar Manual and Gender Mainstreaming Strategy relating to Protection of...

With support from the International Labour Organization (ILO), within the framework of FAIRWAY global programmme, the Government of Nigeria has developed and validated a Pre - Departure Orientation Seminar (PDOS) training manual, and a Gender...

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.

Egypt combats Child Labour by promoting and disseminating knowledge about children’s rights through SCREAM

ILO Voices | Domestic workers

I am fighting against abusive domestic work

Myriam Raharilantosoa became a defender of Malagasy migrant domestic workers after finding out about the abuse suffered by her daughter at the hands of employers in Lebanon.

Empowering women to participate in the green transition of Mbao, Senegal

Training of market gardening groups and women farmers from the classified forest of Mbao with ILO's Start and Improve Your (Green) Business tool.

Optimizing joint learning through a harmonized and participatory monitoring and evaluation system that paves a way for learning and scaling...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had dramatic implications on the workspace in Eswatini according to findings from ILO report

For enterprises, the pandemic has been characterized by almost unparalleled disruption, forcing them to adapt to new circumstances almost overnight. Enterprises have had to alter and adjust their operations and production processes, human resource...