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ILO participates in a webinar on nature-based solutions

COVID-19 and EIIP Jordan

Distribution of ATM cards to EIIP workers in Jordan ensures salary payments are not disrupted

Efforts to support workers employed in Jordan’s EIIP ensure much-needed salaries are paid during COVID-19 lockdown.

ILO presents labour-intensive public works in Jordan

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

Helping the “double casualties” of COVID-19

The spread of COVID-19 in fragile states riven by conflict and political insecurity, is turning millions of vulnerable people into double casualties of the pandemic.

COVID-19 response

Employment-Intensive Investment-Programme (EIIP)'s Response to COVID-19

Rationale for EIIP response, summary of actions, and helpful tools and guidelines for partners

Japan supports ILO and Mozambique in socio-economic recovery after cyclone Idai

The Government of Japan has contributed US$ 545,454 to ILO’s response to cyclone devastation in Mozambique. This support will help restore damaged rural roads and create local jobs, providing better access and improving resilience in the Manica...

The ILO presents the importance of quality employment at the European Investment Bank Board Seminar with Civil Society

Summary of the statement by the ILO at the European Investment Bank (EIB) Board of Directors Seminar with Civil Society 2020 during a session on “supporting development through quality employment”

Our impact, their voices

Water for jobs, peace and schooling

School children stand to benefit from an ILO project that aims to promote peace and create jobs in a previously conflict-ridden region of the Philippines.

Peace and development

Water for jobs, peace and schooling

Schoolchildren stand to benefit from an ILO project that aims to promote peace and create jobs in a previously conflict-ridden region of the Philippines.

The Gambia: ILO’s EIIP project participants obtain a contract from the Government

Community Road Development and Maintenance (CODEM), an enterprise established through the ILO project, has successfully secured its first contract from a municipal council to rehabilitate a drainage system in the city centre, after the project...

Timor-Leste continue to train local contractors for road rehabilitation

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

Summary of the 18th Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practitioners

Summary of the discussions at the 18th Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practitioners held in Tunisia on September 9-13, 2019

Article

Roads to Employment Opportunities and Harmonious Communities

Forcibly displaced persons including refugees and IDPs in Ethiopia could find employment opportunities and maintain harmonious communities through the bridge of labour-based technology approaches between forcibly displaced persons and host...

TICAD 7

ILO attends TICAD 7 and the Special Conference on Peace and Stability in the Sahel Region

Summary of ILO's participation in the Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD) 7 Plenary Meeting in Yokohama, Japan.

ILO hosts “EIIP Day: the past, present and future”

Natural Disasters

Earthquake victims get gravity-fed water supply in Papua New Guinea

A ILO-Japan funded partnership infrastructure project is helping earthquake-affected communities in the Nipa district to access clean drinking water.

ILO signs new agreement with the Netherlands on forced displacement response

PROSPECTS Partnership: Putting decent work at the nexus between humanitarian action and development cooperation

TICADVII side event

TICAD 7 Side Event - ILO Future of Work High-Level Dialogue (Held on 29 Aug. 2019) Meeting Report

Green jobs

ILO-supported national initiatives win policy ‘Oscars’

The Future Policy Awards, recognizes the world’s most impactful policies empowering youth.

A joint EU-ILO project strengthens trade and sectoral policies for more and better decent jobs