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Labour inspection

Campaign improves law compliance in Dong Nai’s woodwork industry

The 2019 Labour Inspection Campaign included a mix of inspection, training and communication activities which engaged employers and workers in the industry nationwide to raise their awareness of the importance of labour law compliance.

The 2019 ITC-ILO Rural Academy includes an elective on cooperatives

Co-organized by the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit and its partner, Agriterra, the elective focused on a range of topics including the role of cooperatives in rural development, basics of the cooperative business model and methodologies for cooperative...

Sri Lankan women improve their livelihoods through cooperatives in the groundnut value chain

Two women producers supported by the ILO LEED+ project share their stories on how they increased their income through cooperatives in the groundnut value chain.

Launch of My.Coop Smart

My.Coop Smart, an online self-paced learning tool of My.Coop – Managing your agricultural cooperatives, has been launched.

ILO100 in Viet Nam

“100 days without accidents” campaign to kick off in 100 factories

The campaign celebrates the Centenary Year of the ILO by highlighting the links between work safety and productivity in the woodwork and supporting industries in Viet Nam.

US delegation visits ILO projects addressing child labour in cocoa-farming communities in Côte d'Ivoire

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, September 3, 2019 – A delegation of staff members from the United States House of Representatives visited a cocoa-growing community, which benefited from four International Labour Office (ILO) projects aimed at eliminating...

Thirty new trainers trained in My.Coop towards developing agricultural cooperatives in southern Haiti

My.Coop – Training on agricultural cooperative management was organized in Haiti within the framework of an ILO project on addressing education and skills gaps for vulnerable youth in the agriculture and fishery sectors.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

GDA Pure Nature: Empowering rural women thorough a cheese making cooperative in Tunisia

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE)....

Training of trainers on Think.Coop and Start.Coop in Comoros

Roll-out of Think.Coop continues in Turkey, now also extending to rural areas

ILO’s Think.Coop training tool has been rolled out in Turkey by Youth Deal Cooperative - Turkey’s first youth-led social cooperative that aims to provide sustainable employment solutions for disadvantaged groups including youth.

ILO organizes training of trainers on the cooperative business model towards increasing economic opportunities in the fishery sector in...

The ToT workshop was conducted to strengthen the capacity of local institutions to support the organization of fishermen groups including cooperatives and other businesses for value-creation and marketing of fish products.

Inauguration of Maliana – Saburai rural road in Bobonaro Municipality

TThe Ministry of Public Works (MPW), inaugurated one of its rehabilitated core rural roads, the Maliana – Saburai road in Bobonaro Municipality.

Forestry

A tripartite ILO meeting adopts conclusions to promote decent work and safety and health in forestry

The first global ILO meeting on forestry in 14 years took place in Geneva between 6 and 10 May 2019 and provided a unique opportunity for ILO’s tripartite constituents to discuss developments, challenges and opportunities in the promotion of decent...

Enterprise development

ILO expands support to the wood-processing industry to northern Viet Nam

The industry is growing quickly in the North with a lot of demand from factories for assistance to become more competitive.

COOP Champions

John Bliek, Enterprises Specialist at 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...

Strengthening cooperatives in Jordan to improve livelihoods and advance decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees

Drawing on the earlier work and pilot interventions, the ILO will further strengthen cooperatives in Jordan within the framework of a new Dutch-funded project on advancing decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees in the agriculture...

Towards building a coherent strategy of cooperative development in the Andean Region

The ILO has been engaging with cooperatives and rural producers’ organizations in the Andean Region with a view to developing a coherent strategy on cooperative development for decent work in selected countries.

Sri Lanka’s first ever ‘eco-recommended’ fisheries

With the support of the ILO Local Empowerment through Economic Development (LEED) project funded by the Australian government, two blue swimming crab fisheries in Sri Lanka become the country’s first ever ‘eco-recommended’ fisheries. The five-year...

A youth cooperative launched to develop the honey value chain in northwestern Tunisia

ERA Agro-Forestry Project Launches its Second Training

The training is part of the European Union funded programme “Enhancing Rural Access Agro-Forestry Project ERA”.