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Online shops help entrepreneurs with disabilities meet COVID challenges

As COVID-19 reshapes the world of work, ILO is helping vulnerable people in Indonesia to stay competitive and improve their livelihoods.

Promoting decent work for all

Indonesia launches its Decent Work Country Programme 2020-2025 (DWCP) as a response to the fast changing world of work

As a response to the fast changes in the world of work, including the changing of employment regulations, Indonesia identified three employment priorities to realize decent work in the country.

Skills

New career guidance package aims to help young people make right career choice

The package including four books for teachers and students is now available online.

UNGA75

SDG Action Zone – The Future of Work: Digital Skills and Decent Jobs for Youth

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Get noticed for employment: The importance of personal branding for job seekers

As technology takes over the world, companies are turning to social media in hiring and recruiting their employees. Good personal branding, thus, can help youth to land their first employment or business opportunities.

Malawi’s Tripartite Labour Advisory Council deliberates on child labour

“The meeting gives employers great confidence in the Minister’s leadership. Social dialogue is the bedrock of labour and employment. When social dialogue takes place reliably and consistently, this can contribute greatly to the development of the...

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Preparing youth with skills for employment and entrepreneurship

Youth unemployment remains a longstanding concern in Indonesia. A recent ‘Youth Talk’ supported by ILO helped empower young Indonesians with new, inspiring insights about youth employability and entrepreneurship.

G20 Labour and Employment Ministers

ILO welcomes G20 commitment to inclusive, employment-focused recovery from COVID-19 crisis

G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting Declaration puts the focus on decent work, women and youth.

G20 Saudi Arabia 2020

ILO Director-General’s remarks at G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting (LEMM): Update on Global Labour Markets

Providing career guidance to Egyptian youth through ILO job search clubs (JSC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Sports

Job search clubs provide an enabling environment where young people gather and share resources and contacts, while searching for jobs in various fields under the supervision of trained facilitators. The ILO in Egypt will leverage and strengthen...

Youth employment

Targeted responses needed to combat youth employment crisis - ADB & ILO report

The joint Tackling the COVID-19 Youth Employment Crisis in Asia and the Pacific report says COVID-19 has triggered a massive disruption of labour markets which has had a disproportionate impact on youth unemployment.

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Indonesia moves towards online training deliveries

The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown measures have led to the worldwide closure of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, including in Indonesia, threatening the continuity of skills development.

Workers' rights

Key note address at the Fiji Trades Union Congress (FTUC) 48th Biennial Delegates Conference - Building Workers' Rights through Organizing

By Mr Matin Karimli, Director, ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries at the Fiji Trades Union Congress (FTUC) 48th Biennial Delegates Conference - Building Workers' Rights through Organizing

Applying the G20 Training Strategy in Kyrgyzstan (Phase 2)

Development of competency-based training curricula for Gas Industry, Milk Processing and Tourism & Hospitality

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Instructors of Indonesian TVETs to shift from offline to online courses

The digital transformation of technical and vocational education training (TVET) centres in Indonesia is unavoidable. The ILO and the Ministry of Manpower team up to build the digital skills of the TVETs’ instructors on the creation and delivery of...

COVID-19 and the world of work

ILO: Sustainable solutions urgently needed to address collapse of Caribbean tourism employment

New report assesses sector job losses and other decent work deficits due to COVID-19

New ILO-ADB report addresses the impact of COVID-19 on youth employment in Asia and the Pacific

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a massive disruption of economies and labour markets with disproportionate impacts on youth employment in Asia and the Pacific, says a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Asian...

Lockdown generation

Youth and COVID-19 in Poland: Impacts on jobs, education, rights and mental well-being

Between April and May 2020, the ILO and its partners in the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth (DJY) conducted a global survey on the impacts of COVID-19 on the lives of young people (aged 18-29) with regard to employment, education,...

COVID-19 disrupts education of over 70 per cent of youth

Investing in youth employment: how the PROSPECTS Partnership aims to boost the labour market outcomes for refugees and their communities in...