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New ILO report to be released on COVID-19 impact on youth education

Employment promotion

Video message transcript for the Launch of the Online Employment Services Platform, Cook Islands

By Mr Matin Karimli, Director, ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries at the Launch of the Online Employment Services Platform, Cook Islands

World Youth Skills Day 2020

Skills for a Resilient Youth in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond

The World Youth Skills Day 2020 took stock of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on skills development and explored how young people can respond to the economic crisis.

ILO Bangladesh celebrates World Youth Skills Day 2020

ILO project provides technical support for international conference on skills development

Joint Op-Ed ECLAC, ILO & UN Geneva

Building back better: Equality at the centre

We must put equality and environmental sustainability at the centre of the recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

World Youth Skills Day

1st ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call winner announced

The winner of the first ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call has been announced, and the USD 50,000 prize has gone to a domestic workers association in Zimbabwe.

A crisis within a crisis

This op-ed has been written by Kishore Kumar Singh, Chief Technical Adviser and Ligaya Dumaoang, Specialist, TVET and Skills Development, Skills 21 project, ILO Bangladesh and published on The Dhaka Tribune

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Supporting the development of digital learning in Indonesia

The ILO through its skills development programmes supports the capacity building of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in 47 countries, including Indonesia. Nine Indonesian representatives have been part of the ILO’s e-learning...

Opinion editorial on COVID-19 and skills development

Why skills development is even more imperative for Indonesia

An opinion editorial by Tauvik Muhamad and Dede Sudono, Project Manager and Project Officer, respectively, of the ILO's industry Skills for Inclusive Growth Phase-2 Project, focusing on the importance of skills development for Indonesia. The opinion...

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Skills development during and after the pandemic: Challenges and opportunities

Skills development can improve productivity and help workers, including youth, diversify their employment opportunities. Yet, skills development programmes have been greatly affected by the COVID-19 epidemic. Tauvik Muhamad, ILO’s Japan Skills...

Our impact, their voices

Industry-school partnership gives better opportunity for youth to decent jobs

The ILO’s latest survey reveals the voices of Indonesian youth on transitioning from school to work. It is already a tough challenge to make transition into decent employment for youth even in best economic times. It is even tougher during the...

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Partnership between Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Industry: Key to workplace readiness

Indonesian government, businesses and technical vocational education and training providers are facing the challenge of high levels of youth unemployment and a shortage of job seekers with critical skills, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic....

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Engaging industrial sectors to address skills mismatch and economic recovery

Engagement of industries is the key for enhancing skills development. Indonesia, with support from the ILO, have promoted greater partnership with industrial sectors to address skills gap and mismatch as part of the economic recovery after the...

Global Deal Conference

Social dialogue essential to any effective response to the pandemic says ILO Director-General

Giving communities a greater voice in their own affairs enables compromises on difficult issues, says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder’s at the Global Deal Conference on “Social Dialogue and the SDGs in the times of the COVID-19 Pandemic”

How COVID-19 affects Europeans and the EU labour market

The ILO and Eurofound jointly organized a webinar which discussed the impact of the current crisis on European workers and businesses. Europe is hard hit, but it has swiftly responded to the pandemic.

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Indonesian trade unions take an active role in skills and employment development

Trade unions have an important, strategic role in contributing to skills development programme and in addressing youth unemployment. Six trade unions confederations, with support from the ILO, have developed their position paper to be part of the...

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Towards skillful generation of Indonesia through enhanced online vocational learning

Responding to the growing importance of digital distance vocational learning in Indonesia as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ILO in collaboration with the Australian Embassy in Indonesia are organizing a series of weekly webinar on this...

Our impact, their voices

At Mbera refugee camp, in Mauritania, the ILO is training young people in building trades

At the hands-on construction training site of the PECOBAT project, students are building an elementary school for the camp’s children, while learning skills that will make them more employable.

Effective Crisis Response Strategies of Government and Businesses: Social Aspect

This was the title of the annual Social Forum organized by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) as part of the Russian Business Week.