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Enhancing access to new skills for vulnerable workers in Bangladesh

ILO’s Canadian funded Bangladesh Skills for Employment and Productivity (B-SEP) Project facilitates workplace inclusion by making training accessible to disadvantaged groups such as poor women, persons with disabilities, indigenous youth.

Youth Employment

The Government of Gilgit-Baltistan embarks on the development of a Youth Employment Strategy

The ILO in collaboration with the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan and Prime Ministers’ Youth Programme (PMYP) held consultative workshops on Youth Employment Framework in Gilgit and Skardu as part of a series of consultations across the country...

International Youth Day

Disadvantaged youth turn away from gang violence through skills' training in northern Madagascar

In the first of a series of articles to mark International Youth Day on 12 August, we focus on an ILO-funded project that has been supporting efforts to curb urban violence and restore peace in the coastal town of Diégo Suarez.

Skills development

Improving practical skills of job seekers through apprenticeship

Apprenticeship programme is designed to help job seekers gain hands-on experience within an industry and to learn new practical skills while earning a qualification. The ILO and its partners are now piloting the quality apprenticeship program to...

Applying the G20 Training Strategy in Armenia (Phase 2)

Armenia launches first workshop on governance of Skills Development

The Workshop is the first one in a series of capacity building activities aimed at strengthening of local capacities in the field of Governance of Skills Development in Armenia conducted within the framework of the Project 'Applying the G20 Training...

Results of the educational program «Managing the changes in the VET system to strengthen regional economy»

21 July 2018 the International educational program for leading regional VET management teams «Managing the changes in the VET system to strengthen regional economy» was completed in Khabarovsk.

Academy on Youth Employment

Participants learn about promoting youth employment for peace and resilience at elective course on Youth Employment in Fragile Settings

Local employment partnerships

ILO launches single biggest project in South-Eastern Europe to promote jobs in Ukraine

New ILO programme brings together businesses, schools, employment services, the social partners and other civil society organizations to create jobs for youth, women and people in rural areas.

World Youth Skills Day 2018

Youth can leverage innovation and technology and become drivers of a better and sustainable future in support of the Sustainable...

On World Youth Skills Day, partners of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth highlight the role of skills in empowering young people to leverage innovation and technologies and to accelerate progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable...

Partnership Exchange

Catalysing partnerships on youth employment for the SDGs

The Partnership Exchange in the margins of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development highlights success factors of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth

NYSC Seeks ILO’s Assistance to Consolidate Achievement

The new Director of Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) Department, of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) - Mr Kwaghe meets with ILO to acknowledge and consolidate SAED’s achievements attained through ILO support, and...

Our impact, their voices

“Why not me?” Young people from Kinshasa start their own businesses

Thanks to an ILO programme, young Congolese women and men from modest backgrounds have been trained in entrepreneurship – sometimes with significant results.

ILO participates in an international forum on cooperative development in the Pacific Islands

The Director of the ILO Office for Pacific Islands presented the work of the ILO on cooperatives to promote decent work at an international forum on cooperative development in the Pacific region.

Future of Work Interview Series

#6. Round-Table Talk with Interns

Local employment partnerships

ILO single biggest project in sub-region supports job creation in Ukraine

The ILO launched its new programme to establish local partnerships of employers, schools, employment services, government agencies, social partners and civil society to address their employment needs.

Youth skills

The apprenticeship innovation challenge

In a speech at the International Conference on Innovations in Apprenticeships, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, outlines how new types of apprenticeships are needed to tackle the youth skills gap.

Self-Employment Programme To Be Expanded in Azerbaijan

The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population of Azerbaijan is to expand the scope of the self-employment programme at least five times as announced by Sakhil Babaev, Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Population, in...

Youth employment

Powering up Indonesian youth through soft skills enhancement

Building vocational skills is not enough. Youth also need training in soft skills such as vision setting, problem solving and leadership. The ILO’s new and innovative learning programme helps youth develop soft skills for job success.

Youth employment

Lebanon: Better technical and vocational education and training for higher youth employment

At the launch of the Technical and Vocational and Education Training (TVET) National Strategic Framework, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri says the framework will increase employment prospects for youth and boost productivity and economic growth.

The first youth employability services centre inaugurated in Bahir Dar, Amhara region, Ethiopia

A youth employability services (YES) center – a first for Ethiopia was officially inaugurated on 19th June 2018. The YES centre is a joint initiative between the Government of Ethiopia and International Labour Organization (ILO) under the project on...