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Trekking boosts rural income in Nepal

Following the end of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, the ILO launched a project to promote employment and accelerate peace-building in 2007. Opening new routes for tourism that benefit local people is part of the project.

Dreaming of a Tumpoun centre in Laaen Kren

Por Mach is a member of the Tumpoun tribe in Rattanakiri, Cambodia. As a 46-year-old widow with six children it was hard to earn enough to live. But with the help of the ILO’s Creative Industry Support Programme, she improved her skills and...

Turning waste fruit into a profitable business

Cooperatives have played an important role in Indonesia by helping to boost growth, reduce poverty and promote social cohesion. As the world celebrates the UN International Day of Cooperatives, Gita Lingga reports on a successful project involving...

Reducing poverty and creating jobs through cooperatives in Indonesia

The cooperative movement in Indonesia is considered as one of the largest civil society organizations as well as social enterprises with great potential in rural development and employment creation.

Bangladesh: Lighting the Way to a Greener World of Work

Solar home systems can be an alternative source of energy in developing countries like Bangladesh, where half of the population, or about 85 million people, lack access to grid-based electricity. Solar panels bring clean energy and green jobs to...

IFAD-ILO Media Alert: Decent and productive employment for rural youth within reach

IFAD and ILO launch new study on work opportunities for rural youth

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ILO and Australian government strengthen technical cooperation with US$31 million Timor-Leste project

The ILO and the Governments of Australia and Timor-Leste have announced a new US$31 million project to significantly improve road transport in Timor-Leste.

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Gender equality in the rural sector: The ever-present challenge

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day – Empower Rural Women, end poverty and hunger – highlights the need to tackle gender inequalities in the rural sector. Women living and working in rural areas are often perceived and treated as...

ILO, UN DESA, IFAD, FAO launch joint initiatives to “unleash rural development through employment and decent work”

A meeting organized in November 2011 by the ILO, UN DESA, IFAD, FAO and attended by over 15 more agencies, NGOs, academia and media agreed on a set of concrete and practical joint initiatives at national and international levels to develop the...

Message of His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Philippines at the ILO thematic year-end reception, media recognition and...

By His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Philippines (delivered by Labour and Employment Secretary Rosalinda D. Baldoz) at the ILO thematic year-end reception, media recognition and UN photo exhibition on initiatives and...

Kenya: Regional Seminar on the Role of Trade Unions in Rural Development and Youth Employment in Africa

UN Agencies to launch new report on gender and work in agricultural and rural areas

ILO’s Regional Workshop Decent Work in the Indonesian Forestry Industries

The ILO office in Jakarta in collaboration with FSP KAHUTINDO, APINDO and BWI has organised a regional workshop on decent work in the Indonesian forestry industries at Ciputra Golf Club Hotel, Surabaya, from Monday-Tuesday, 21st-22nd June 2010.

Peace, security and work in Timor-Leste

By Jose Assalino, Chief Technical Advisor, Timor-Leste. As a newly independent country with a fledgling economy, Timor-Leste faces many social and economic challenges. To help the Timorese people find decent work the ILO started three new...

Creating a "socialist harmonious society in the countryside": Towards universal health insurance in rural China

In 2003, the government launched a New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance (NRCMI) with an ambitious objective of covering all rural residents by 2010. The new health insurance system is seen as a central pillar of the government's plan to improve...