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ILO Voices | Rural economy
Entrepreneur turns problems into profit
When COVID-19 hit, Merima Kukić Gego’s future looked bleak. Her traineeship had ended and her options in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina looked like unemployment or migration. But instead she found the drive to start a food and tourism business,...
ILO participated in the Caribbean Climate Justice Forum 2022 hosted by the Cipriani College of Labour and Co-Operative Studies, Trinidad...
The Forum attracted representatives from businesses, academia and workers' organizations from across the Caribbean
Our impact, their voices
Occupational safety and health enhance the business resilience of Indonesian SMEs
The risk assessment service provided by the ILO’s Enhancing COVID-19 Prevention at and through Workplaces has helped Indonesia small- and medium-sized enterprises survive the pandemic. Two resilient businesswomen shared their survival journeys.
Enterprise development
New skills help Cambodian tourism sector build back from dark days of COVID
The ILO has supported the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism to strengthen business resilience and sustainability for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) within the tourism sector, which were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
ILO Voices | Tourism
An indigenous entrepreneur in tune with Mother Earth
After successfully reclaiming her people’s territory in Quebrada de Humahuaca, Northern Argentina, Celestina Ábalos turned to tourism to share and promote her indigenous culture. ILO entrepreneurship training during the COVID-19 pandemic helped her...
ILO Voices | Tourism recovery
How my tourism business survived COVID-19
When COVID-19 struck Indonesia, Dekha Dewandana’s previously thriving ‘homestay’ tourism business was pushed to the verge of collapse. With the support of the International Labour Organization (ILO), his business survived and grew.
Construction of new facility to aid in vocational training for marginalized youth in Saint Lucia
The facility, will host a new state of the art hospitality and catering block for the vocational curriculum.
COVID-19 risk assessment service for business sustainability in the hospitality industry
The COVID-19 risk assessment provided for free by the ILO’s Enhancing COVID-19 Prevention at and through Workplaces helps strengthening the occupational safety and health (OSH) management system in Indonesia’s hospitality industry.
Ship to Shore Rights South East Asia Programme
Thai seafood processing industry agrees new steps to improve working conditions
The Thai seafood processing sector has agreed to do more to embed good labour practices within the management and operational systems of the industry for the benefit of its workers.
Skills development
Villagers jump-start their businesses with new marketing strategies
An ILO-UK programme gives post-training support to boost the business potential of entrepreneurs from Indonesia’s coastal tourism villages.
Tourism sector
Tourism has potential to play a major role in global pandemic recovery
With the right policies the tourism sector can play a major role in the global COVID-19 recovery, provided that an enabling environment for sustainable enterprises is established and the jobs created are decent and support social and economic...
Making a splash in eco-tourism
Brooke McKinley and Capt. Drew Vevea, Outer Island Excursions, Anacortes, Washington
Amid COVID-19 crisis, ILO and ACS discuss renewed cooperation
Both the ILO and ACS renewed their commitment to the development of joint actions and projects that would generate broad-based benefits for the region and contribute to sustainable economic development and the promotion of employment and decent work...
ILO hosts training of Business Development Services trainers in Kilimanjaro
The training aims to skill the trainers to help entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
International Women's Day
More than 4 million women have not been able to return to work in Latin America and the Caribbean
A high unemployment rate of 16.4 per cent, high informality, overload due to care tasks, are factors that contribute to increasing gender gaps in the labour market. A new ILO Technical Note looks at policies that can be applied to make up lost...
12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Elective 3: SSE, just transition to climate-neutral and circular economy: innovative ways...
Rural economy
With decent work and a sustainable model aquaculture could feed the world
The lessons learnt from the COVID-19 crisis should encourage reforms towards a more sustainable and resilient aquaculture sector and food systems at large.
Empowered by new management skills, novice event organizers turbocharge launch of new tourism spot
The ILO-UK programme is equipping coastal villagers in Indonesia with knowledge, skills and tools to help them capitalize on emerging tourism opportunities.
Migrant worker rights and recruitment
COVID-19 has made life even more precarious for migrant workers
Stranded in their destination countries or forced to leave, unemployed and with no access to social protection, migrant workers have suffered the worst of the pandemic.
The tourism sector
ILO research highlights massive COVID-19 impact on tourism employment in Asia and the Pacific
Asia–Pacific tourism industry left reeling from job losses, deterioration in work quality and shifts towards increased informality.