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Inequalities

Mothers and children need more – not less – social protection

As several countries around the world prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day, two new ILO studies provide new global and country data that point to the urgent need to increase social protection for mothers and children.

Social Protection

More than half of the global rural population excluded from health care

ILO report shows huge differences in health care access between rural and urban areas worldwide.

Cooperative development initiative on "Socio-economic justice for Bedouin women" in Egypt

Official launch of the R4D movie

H. E. The Minister of Public Works, Sr. Gastão Francisco de Sousa, hosted a high-level event to officially launch a movie about the Roads for Development Program (R4D). Senior dignitaries from the Government of Timor-Leste, Donors and Development...

Promoting rural entrepreneurship through improved rural road access in Timor-Leste

Income-generating opportunities are available to very few people in rural areas of Timor-Leste where the local economy relies mostly on subsistence agriculture. Severe infrastructure constraints, in particular poor rural roads access, limit...

Training workshop

ILO aims to boost job opportunities in northern Lebanon through labour law training

An ILO training workshop in Tripoli aims to increase knowledge of Lebanese labour laws amongst employment service providers catering to locals and foreigners, as part of an initiative to tackle the effect of the Syrian refugee crisis on employment...

Strategic focus on enhancing employment

On August 27, our colleagues – Senior Employment Specialist Olga Koulaeva and Chief Technical Adviser of the ILO project “Partnerships for youth employment in the CIS” Mikhail Pouchkin – arrived in Azerbaijan for a three-day visit to discuss with...

Kick-off Workshop on Rural Roads Master Plan for Timor-Leste

H. E. The Minister of Public Works Sr. Gastão Francisco de Sousa and H.E. the Ambassador of Australia, Mr. Peter Doyle, will officially open the Kick-off Workshop for the development of a Rural Roads Master Plan for Timor-Leste on 4th June 2014 at...

Inauguration of the Mahata-Kusi road

H. E. the President Taun Matan Ruak and H.E. the Ambassador of Australia, Mr. Peter Doyle, will officially inaugurate on 22nd May 2014 at 2 pm the Mahata-Kusi road in Mahata Sub-District, Oecusse. The road has been rehabilitated by the Ministry of...

Signing of Strengthening National Rural Transport Programme

On 28 March 2014, the ILO and the Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agricultural Roads (DoLIDAR), Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development signed an agreement for the implementation of the routine maintenance component...

Media tour of ILO Projects in Mutoko District - Zimbabwe

On the 5th of March 2014 the ILO Country Office for Zimbabwe hosted a breakfast meeting and field visit for 45 senior journalists from the largest media houses in Zimbabwe as well as the Danish Ambassador Mr. Erik Broegger Rasmussen, the Deputy...

Rural development

"Money finds us!" - Enriching the vegetable harvest in Timor-Leste

How an ILO supported project helped a local community to improve their farming practices, develop their market access, create jobs and support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Rural development

The need to invest in Africa’s rural transformation

Boosting rural investment in Africa would create millions of badly needed jobs, as well as food security and resilience.

Rural development

Timor-Leste: When a short road makes a huge difference

In a country where 75 per cent of the population live in rural areas and 40 per cent are below the poverty line, improving a short stretch of road can mean more jobs and a better quality of life for rural workers and their families.

ILO to share lessons on alternative green livelihoods in Central Kalimantan

The Island of Kalimantan, particularly Central Kalimantan, is home to unique ecological systems that include tropical peat swamp forest. However, due to land degradation, some local communities in the Ex-Mega-Rive Project (EMRP) area of Central...

Statement by ILO Director-General on the occasion of World Environment Day 2013

On this year’s World Environment Day with its focus on food waste and food loss we are confronted with a tragic paradox. Globally over 870 million people are undernourished while 1.3 billion tons of food - fully one third of all food produced – are...

COOP Champions

Rodrigo Mogrovejo, senior specialist at the ILO Office for the Andean countries

COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. It highlights their contributions, and shares highlights of their experiences, current work, and future...

Young rural people need employment supports

Young rural people, who are often left behind in education and training, need supports to get access to quality jobs. A forum organized by the International Labour Organization in the northern province of Phu Tho on 26 November listens to the voice...

Local development

Tourism benefits Viet Nam’s rural poor

Inland hilltribe villagers in Quang Nam province have increased their earnings by developing products such as traditional weavings, spices, tea gift baskets and home stay services for tourists, with the help of an ILO project and funding from the...

Rural economies

Cultivating the green shoots of rural areas

The ILO looks to harnessing the potential of the world’s rural areas as city dwellers in the developing world struggle to find work.