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Decent Work, a pathway to enterprise success and community resilience
Decent work isn’t just a concept but a strategy for more productive enterprises
Sectoral labour data and statistics
ILO integrates sectoral labour statistics to strengthen access to world of work data
Updated sectoral webpages now combine data from ILOSTAT with key resources on labour standards, policies, and research across major industries — helping constituents, researchers, and policymakers make evidence-based decisions to promote decent work.
How Property Point is transforming business development support?
Supporting small businesses build decent workplaces
Decent Work in Construction
National Union of Mineworker's Drive for Change in the Construction Industry, empowering workers
Webinar
Financing a just transition - Sectoral insights for construction and building materials
The construction and building materials sector is one of the most carbon-intensive globally, and demand is only growing due to rapid urbanization and infrastructure needs. While a low-carbon transition in this sector is...
Gender equality
Creating opportunities for women in construction in India: A call for action
Young innovator transforms Mozambique with cyclone-proof bricks
In the cyclone-hit communities of Mozambique, survival often demands innovation, resilience, and hope. For 30-year-old Ramane Ramos Jorge, these qualities have been at the heart of his extraordinary journey. Supported by the International Labour...
Occupational safety and health
ILO supports Vanuatu’s recovery with occupational safety and health initiatives
Code of Practice for OSH in construction to help safeguard workers during rebuilding efforts.
Raising awareness on decent work in South Africa’s construction sector
ILO adopts conclusions for promoting decent work and a just transition in the building materials industry
Governments, employers and workers agree on a set of concrete measures that will reshape the future of the industry while balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability and social justice.
EU-STREIT Project in Papua New Guinea
Paving the future: How the Yawasoro-Niewanjie Road rejuvenates lives and livelihoods in rural Papua New Guinea
A rehabilitated road in rural Papua New Guinea has transformed lives and livelihoods, improving access to essential services and creating new economic opportunities for the community. The once-impassable route has now become a lifeline for mothers,...
Decent work in Construction Project
South Africa, takes the reigns of the Project Steering Committee
Spain ratifies key occupational safety and health standards for construction and agriculture
Spain ratifies the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167) and the Safety and Health in Agriculture Convention, 2001 (No. 184).
EU-STREIT Project in Papua New Guinea
ILO Regional Director inaugurates rehabilitated road in Papua New Guinea
Enterprise digitalization
ILO, DICT, and Japan launch first Digital Transformation Centre in Luzon
The ILO, DICT, and Japan constructed and launched the first Digital Transformation Centre in Pampanga to boost enterprise digitalization and competitiveness.
Global Accelerator
Philippines joins the Global Accelerator aiming to expand jobs and social protection
To address challenges and channel investments, the Philippines becomes a pathfinder country of the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions, a joint high impact initiative of the United Nations to create decent work and...
Youths across Jordan gain new skills through work-based learning
Hundreds of Jordanian and Syrian youths celebrated the completion of their training programmes, provided by the ILO and Jordan River Foundation, as they prepare to enter the world of work with increased practical and technical skills.
Decent Work in Construction project engages SMME's in Ethekwini
Fact finding mission in Kwazulu Natal Province
Opportunities for decent work for women and youth and improved productivity for MSMEs in the Zimbabwe construction sector
The project seeks to improve the productivity of micro, small and medium construction enterprises, and to contribute towards addressing decent work deficits among vulnerable workers through decent working conditions and putting onto effect their...