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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.

Disabilities

A father, a mechanic, a trainer, an entrepreneur and disabled – in that order

Ask anyone in Tongi about Mosharrof Hossain and they’ll tell you he’s the man to fix your fridge. What they probably won’t tell you is that he will do it without hands.

Rural youth employment

Good careers come from young people’s own interest and aptitude: ILO

Skills mismatch on Viet Nam’s youth labour markets has become a persistent trend whereas over-education and over-skilling coexist with under-education and under-skilling. More than 400 young people and 100 parents from the rural suburbs of Hanoi...

ILO promotes jobs for refugee-hosting communities in Jordan

ILO works with refugee-hosting communities in Mafraq and Irbid to create jobs in agro-business.

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.

Youth employment

Sweden joins ILO initiative in Zambia for rural youth

The ILO-led UN Joint Programme with FAO on decent work and food security will create job opportunities for young entrepreneurs along agricultural value chains and will boost food security for rural populations in Zambia.

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...

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.

Microinsurance

Insuring livestock to protect the poor

Livestock insurance has the potential to reduce the vulnerability of poor populations. The challenges are formidable, but recent technology offers hope.

Analysis

Crisis in Spain highlights an increasing ‘employment divide’

The wave of social unrest that has recently hit Spain is a reflection of the growing rural/urban and north/south divide in the country.

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...

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

Message by Juan Somavia Director-General of the ILO on the occasion of International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8th March of each year. This year’s event focuses on recognizing the important contribution of rural women across the world to the well-being of their families and communities and in sustaining societies...

Q&A

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...

Ray of hope – Ramayees’s story

Fishing had been the mainstay of Ramayee and her husband Kandeeban of the tiny coastal hamlet of Oyalikuppam before that fateful day in December 2004 when giant waves of Tsunami washed away their home and virtually everything they owned including...

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

Vavuniya North Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society to support more than 2,000 paddy farmers

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society (MPCS) of Vavuniya North have joined forces to re-tool a major rice milling operation damaged during the years of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict.

I-News

New UN report says rural women face increasing inequality: Calls for policies enabling women to drive rural economic growth and poverty...

A new United Nations interagency report on the gender dimension of agricultural work says women still benefit less than men from rural employment and face new challenges due to the current economic and food crises.