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A trainer’s mission to empower Timorese youth and promote inclusion

Through her commitment to inclusive education and community outreach, a trainer in Timor-Leste is opening doors for youth to pursue meaningful careers and business opportunities.

Skills development

Empowering Timor-Leste’s trainers: ILO and EU invest in future workforce development

The ILO’s Agroforestry Skills Programme, funded by the EU, supports certified training for local trainers in Timor-Leste to advance the standard of vocational education nationwide.

Impact story

Rural Employment Services: Empowering communities through local partnerships in Kenya

Through the Rural Employment Services model, the ILO and refugee-led organisations like Dadaab Refugee Voices are helping refugees and host communities access training, job opportunities, and livelihoods – creating pathways to decent work and...

Tourism

Community-based tourism in Jaflong: creating jobs and nurturing nature

The ILO, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Tourism Board, has helped launch a community-based tourism (CBT) model in Jaflong that welcomes visitors to experience the vibrant Khasi cultural heritage while ensuring community ownership and equitable...

The empowering journey of a young Timorese cooperative leader and entrepreneur

Through various skills training programmes, a young Timorese cooperative leader has transformed his life and empowered his community toward greater economic resilience and inclusion.

Timorese trainers strengthen capacities in career guidance, soft skills and disability inclusion to support youth employment

The European Union and the ILO enhance Timor-Leste’s institutional capacity to better support youth employment and promote inclusivity.

Digitalization and financial inclusion

ILO and AFTECH join forces to boost financial access for dairy farmers through digital innovation

The ILO and its social partners extend digital financial inclusion efforts to diverse agricultural value chains in Indonesia.

Podcast

How rural youth are redefining agriculture in Africa

Voices story | Labour market data

How my data collection work empowers Ghana’s farmers

Kalian Sampoa Gumah shares a day in her life as a survey enumerator in Ghana, collecting data from farming households and farm workers to inform employment policies and empower rural communities.

Cooperatives

ILO and partners present roadmap to strengthen rural cooperatives and advance formalization of the rural economy in Chile

Our impact, their voices

From tradition to transformation: A young Timorese farmer’s journey into vanilla cultivation

Demenicio Dodi, a young Timorese farmer, is harnessing the potential of vanilla to uplift not only his own life, but that of his community and nation.

Oil palm employers complete assistance programme on labour standards compliance with support from the ILO and Cargill

The International Labour Organization (ILO), in partnership with Cargill, has certified 18 companies that successfully completed the Palma al día: virtual assistance for employers programme.

Sectoral labour data and statistics

ILO integrates sectoral labour statistics to strengthen access to world of work data

Updated sectoral webpages now combine data from ILOSTAT with key resources on labour standards, policies, and research across major industries — helping constituents, researchers, and policymakers make evidence-based decisions to promote decent work.

Skills development

ILO and EU continue to advance vanilla farming in Timor-Leste with practical training on curing, quality and markets

The Agroforestry Skills for Employment and Resilience Project continues to support vanilla farming in Timor-Leste, aiming to build a more competitive and sustainable vanilla industry.

Skills and rural employment

Lao People’s Democratic Republic validates new soft skills curriculum to boost rural employability

ILO’s Rural Employment Promotion (REP) project supports efforts by the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to promote youth employability and workforce readiness through innovative and responsive training models.

Beneficiary story

From unskilled to skilled: how an ILO training gave Victoria Zghibarta a second chance in life in the Republic of Moldova

An initiative launched by the Hincesti disctrict Local Employment Partnership (LEP), with support from the International Labour Organization (ILO) provided a free vocational training for Victoria Zghibarta, along with 14 other unemployed persons...

PROSPECTS Impact

New school, solar power and income for women: ILO brings opportunities for refugees and hosts in Sudan

In Sudan’s White Nile State, the ILO and partners are creating jobs, building infrastructure, and empowering communities through an employment-focused initiative that supports both refugees and hosts.

Uganda’s Labour Market Assessment and Skills Mapping to Boost Reintegration of Returnees in the country

Validating the findings of the Labour Market Assessment and Skills Mapping for the Reintegration of Returned Migrant Workers, commissioned in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area

Just transition

Timor-Leste’s key labour actors identify actions on climate change and Just Transition

The ILO supports Timor-Leste’s key labour actors to promote Just Transition in the country for business sustainability and decent work for workers.

ILO Voices | Rural economy

I am reviving patchouli farming in Aceh, Indonesia

In Indonesia, the ILO’s Promise II Impact project is facilitating access to digital financial services and financial training. The goal is to help small and medium-sized enterprises — like that of patchouli oil producer Teuku Razuan — build...