All news: Education and training

Child labour

Angel's dream takes flight beyond child labour

Child labour continues to deny thousands of children in the Philippines of their childhood, but Angel Grace refuses to give up on her future.

Green skills

Green construction skills chart a sustainable future for Filipino youth

For young Filipinos, green construction skills are opening the door for a better future of work while helping build stronger, safer, and more climate resilient communities.

ILO/China Partnership Programme

ILO/China South-South Cooperation strengthens Lao teachers' skills for smart agriculture

Training equips the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) teachers with advanced Internet of Things (IoT)-based Smart Agriculture Systems, enabling them to deliver related training courses.

Just transition

Union leader in the Philippines brings just transition across Mindanao

A just transition in the Philippines must leave no worker behind, especially in Mindanao where unions are helping vulnerable, informal, and young workers build a fairer and more sustainable future.

Apprenticeship

Breaking barriers, floor by floor: Nabeha Marzan's journey into engineering

Nabeha Marzan is one of 47 apprentices who gained industry-ready skills through ILO's re-modelled industry-institute Attachment Programme with the Ministry of Education of Bangladesh, landing a full-time role with her industry partner.

Youth employment

Learning through experience, growing through skills: A Viet Nam Youth Network member's story

Quynh Chi, a member of the ILO-Korea Youth Network for Decent Work and Green Jobs in Viet Nam, shares how hands-on learning, opportunities to apply knowledge in practice, community engagement and collaboration with other young people have helped her...

Blog

Old Skills for new technologies?

AI has major implications for the skills workers need to access quality jobs. This article argues that foundational skills, more so than AI expertise, will be central for workforces to navigate this transformation.

PROSPECTS Impact

Enterprise bridges needs: how youth innovation is supporting livestock owners in Kassala

Through the ILO PROSPECTS supported i-UPSHIFT programme, a group of young entrepreneurs in Kassala State transformed a local challenge into a business opportunity, improving access to veterinary medicines for livestock farmers while creating...

Capacity building

The role of employers organizations in EU–North Africa talent partnerships: from labour shortages to shared solutions

Employers' organizations and institutional partners met in Turin to explore how demand-driven Talent Partnerships can address labour shortages while promoting skills development and fair labour mobility.

Digital Inclusion

Preparing Rwanda’s teachers for the future of work

Rwanda is developing a Digital Skills Competency Framework for TVET teachers to strengthen teaching, respond to changing labour market needs and better prepare young people for increasingly digital and technology-enabled workplaces.

Training course

ITCILO launches summer school on social dialogue and living wages

Organised with the support of the French Ministry of Labour and Solidarity, the course will examine how tripartite social dialogue and collective bargaining can help turn living wage principles into practice.

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.

Child labour

Out of school, in the fields: A heavy harvest in the Philippines

As the Philippines strengthens action against child labour, coordinated initiatives are helping vulnerable children transition from hazardous work to education while supporting their families.

Gender equality

Investing in Women: Gender-responsive budgeting can help transform Bangladesh's skills development system

Nigeria Expands Financial Education Network with Support from ILO

Twenty-one new ILO-certified trainers will empower vulnerable workers and households across Nigeria with financial skills to strengthen livelihoods, build resilience, and reduce economic vulnerability.

Just transition

From child labour to union leader in geothermal power

In the Philippines, a former child labourer has become a geothermal worker and union leader, proving that a just transition, skills recognition, and labour rights can create decent work without leaving workers behind.

Skills for employability

Technical and vocational training strengthens core skills for better youth employment in Ethiopia

Through the ILO's Global Skills Programme, technical and vocational education and training instructors are integrating core skills into classroom practice, helping young people build the communication, teamwork, digital, green and problem-solving...

National dialogue set to strengthen TVET governance in Syria

Government, social partners and international organizations discussed ways to strengthen Syria’s TVET system and align skills training with labour market needs.

Our impact, their voices

More than two decades later, the impact of child labour prevention lives on

More than two decades after receiving support through an ILO-backed programme in Indonesia, former street child Abdul Rohim is helping a new generation of children build brighter futures.

Workers’ rights and gender equality drive new phase of Union Power project in Jordan

Renewed partnership between the ILO and the General Federation of Jordanian Trade Unions aims to strengthen workers’ rights, women’s and youth empowerment, and gender-responsive collective bargaining.