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Communication, prevention measures and adaptations of Mauritian SMEs against COVID-19
Using the SCORE module - COVID-19 Safety & Health at Work - enterprises in Mauritius implement the necessary measures to protect their employees from the risk of the virus spreading, while strengthening their communication and preparing for recovery.
New partnership between the Government of Norway and the International Labour Organization to improve working conditions in Malawi’s...
This new project is well aligned to the strategic priorities of development cooperation between Norway and Malawi, which include a focus on the agriculture sector and respect for human rights, as well as with Norway’s global development cooperation...
COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
Contagion or starvation, the dilemma facing informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Lockdown measures will worsen poverty and vulnerabilities among the world’s two billion informal economy workers, says the International Labour Organization.
COVID-19: Stimulating the economy and employment
COVID-19: How social and economic sectors are responding
The COVID-19 crisis is having a devastating effect on all social and economic sectors. In a series of briefs, the ILO analyses how the pandemic is affecting the functioning of these sectors and how they are responding to alleviate its effects.
50 representatives from Government and Social partners gather to address decent work deficits in the tobacco sector in Tanzania.
Participants to propose a three years programme to address the decent work deficits in the country
« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | ZAMBIA - “I was 11 when I started to work in tobacco farms. Now I am skilled and became a tailor”
Simasiku Ngenda is one of the Zambian teenagers who have been supported by an ILO-sponsored project so that they can leave child labour and learn a trade.
Our impact, their voices
“Why not me?” Young people from Kinshasa start their own businesses
Thanks to an ILO programme, young Congolese women and men from modest backgrounds have been trained in entrepreneurship – sometimes with significant results.
Improving the livelihood and working conditions of the vulnerable workers
Assessment of skill gaps and Decent Work deficits in selected agro food value chains
Over 30 representatives from Govt. of Glgit Baltistan Province; UN; INGOs; Academia an famer’s groups unanimously validated the key findings of the Assessment Study, presented by Baltistan Cultural Development Foundation (BCDF) at the workshop in...
331st ILO Governing Body
ILO Governing Body calls for “integrated ILO strategy” to address decent work deficits in the tobacco sector
The ILO Governing Body has asked the Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to present a strategy to address decent work deficits in the tobacco sector to be presented in March 2018.
Food security and rural development
Learning from the ILO’s experiences in promoting food security and sustainable rural development
To jointly tackle the food security and improve the rural development in the Indonesia, the ILO, in collaboration with the Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration and the Food Agricultural Organization (FAO), has developed a...
Food security and rural development
ILO to share its lessons learnt in promoting food security and sustainable livelihoods
Food insecurity is one of the most significant development constraints in Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) Province of Indonesia. Food availability is significantly impacted by severe agro-climatic conditions and seasonality. Some efforts have been taken...
Cooperatives promoting inclusive rural-urban linkages – COPAC side event, Committee on World Food Security
Sustainable livelihoods
Building business networking for cattle farmers in East Nusa Tenggara
As part of the efforts to promote food security and sustainable livelihoods of small-scale producers as well as agricultural workers and their families in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), the International Labour Organization (ILO) will organize a business...
ILO organized national consultations to address child labour in tobacco producing areas in Tanzania
The ILO organized national stakeholder consultations to eliminate child labour in tobacco-growing communities in Tanzania.
Community development
Decent Work, not Hard Work
Semau Island is one of the areas in Kupang district, East Nusa Tenggara, known for its chronic food insecurity based on the government’s food security and vulnerability assessment released in 2010. To assist the island overcoming its food...
Partnerships
ILO and Japan Tobacco International step up joint work to promote fundamental labour rights in the tobacco supply chain
Under the partnership, the ILO will conduct research into forced labour, discrimination, freedom of association and collective bargaining, as well as occupational safety and health in farming communities in countries where JTI purchases tobacco.
Seminar on Climate Change: Issues, challenges and opportunities confronting the peasants and farmer communities of Sindh Province
The ILO through the One-UN Livelihood Restoration Project has improved the resilience of 662 households by providing them training and tools to diversify their livelihoods. While the climate change induced vulnerabilities of the farmer communities...
2030 Development Agenda
Zambia: How to tackle four development goals in a single project
A new ILO-FAO agricultural employment project underway in Zambia aims to create 3000 additional decent jobs for rural youth, increase their incomes and tackle nutritional deficiencies. In so doing, it works towards four of the new sustainable...
The Partnership Agreement Signing Ceremony between the Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration of the Republic of...
Today, Indonesia’s Minister of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration signed a Partnership Agreement with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in support of a...
Child labour
ECLT Foundation and ILO sign agreement to combat child labour in tobacco
Agreement to develop global guidance on hazardous child labour and occupational safety and health in tobacco growing, and to support stronger social dialogue in three of the countries where ECLT operates projects: Malawi, the United Republic of...