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Turkmenistan: Webinar on Supporting Enterprises for Rapid Economic Recovery

On 15 June 2020, ILO Moscow organized a webinar for ILO constituents in Turkmenistan. The webinar focused on policy measures to support enterprises and businesses during the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic, and securing jobs in the...

COVID-19: Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!

Most ILO programmes implemented in African countries, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, are now taking accelerated action on protecting the health, jobs and incomes of workers. These interventions include a focus on more comprehensive social...

COVID-19 and child labour

COVID-19 may push millions more children into child labour – ILO and UNICEF

Child labour down by 94 million since 2000, a gain now under threat.

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ILO and UNICEF assess impact of COVID-19 crisis on child labour

Webinar on the Role of institutions, including PES, in protecting jobs and delivering services to vulnerable groups

ILO Moscow continues the series of five webinars “From the immediate crisis response to COVID pandemic towards economic recovery with decent work in focus”.

Cambodia and UN step up efforts to promote Decent Employment for Youth

A joint programme will help school-to-work transition of young women and men in Cambodia.

COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

ILO: More than one in six young people out of work due to COVID-19

The ILO’s latest analysis of the labour market impact of COVID-19 exposes the devastating and disproportionate effect on young workers, and analyses measures being taken to create a safe return to work environment.

Functional Self-Assessment for Public Works Fund Launched in Uzbekistan

Designed by ILO specialists, the PWF functional self-assessment methodology was introduced amid COVID-19 pandemic to the management and specialists of the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations at a webinar on May 26, 2020.

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ILO to release data on devastating impact of COVID-19 on youth

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How skills training transformed Taslima’s life

Skills 21 project is a joint initiative of the Government of Bangladesh and the International Labour Organization (ILO), funded by the European Union. The project seeks to increase productivity and employment opportunities through an environmentally...

Online Class: The ‘new normal’ in TVET

Webinar on Employment and Labour Market Affected by COVID-19 Pandemic

ILO Moscow has launched a series of five webinars “From the immediate crisis response to COVID pandemic towards economic recovery with- decent work in focus”.

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Staying competitive during COVID-19 with digital skills

Responding to the growing need for ICT skills caused by COVID-19 pandemic, the ILO team up with the Indonesian Retail Association (APRINDO) to provide an opportunity for business owners and laid-off workers to be more competitive with improved...

ILO’s intervention at webinar series “Employment and Entrepreneurship for Chinese Youth”

The covid-19 pandemic has a severe impact on global youth employment. This is also true for the 8.74 million Chinese university graduates. The ILO is providing employment and entrepreneurship advice for the Chinese youth.

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Promoting quality company-based apprenticeship programmes

The current COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting people’s everyday way of living. Besides being a global health crisis, it is also a major social and economic crisis, and in relation to our work and education, it is affecting the way we work and learn in...

A new milestone in the development of employment strategy in Uzbekistan

The large-scale tasks of economic and social reforms in Uzbekistan reinforce the need to transform the model of public employment policy, and in this matter we rely on the ILO technical and expert support. This was stated by the constituents who...

COVID-19: Promoting skills development

Strengthening partnership between TVET and industry to address skills mismatch in digital era

Making the transition into decent employment is a tough challenge for young people, even in the best economic times and particularly worse during the crisis like the COVID-19 outbreak. The ILO and its partners examined ways to address digital skills...

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Moldovan entrepreneur supported by ILO finds the way to respond to COVID-19 in his community

ILO Voices | Youth employment

Young workers will be hit hard by COVID-19’s economic fallout

The COVID-19 emergency is affecting almost everyone in the world, regardless of age, income or country. However, young people are likely to be particularly hard hit by the economic fallout of the crisis. Find out five reasons why.

Skills development

Making Dual VET work: Lessons learnt from Montenegro

What is the most effective way to learn a new skill? Most people will say “through practice”. It is well-known that increasing the share of company-based learning in Vocational Education and Training (VET) yields much learning effects than...