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Green jobs

Small businesses embrace greener practices to grow and create new opportunities in Indonesia

From turning aloe vera into a low-waste business to giving traditional herbal drinks a modern appeal, small businesses in Indonesia are discovering how greener practices can help them use resources more responsibly, strengthen their businesses and...

Learning from the ILO: How I am preparing my students for a just energy future

Inspired by an ILO workshop, a Sriwijaya University lecturer sees how teaching can spark change and help prepare students to contribute to a just and greener future.

Inclusive workplaces

ILO advances leadership and disability inclusion in Ethiopia’s textile, garment and leather sector

ILO training will help strengthen leadership skills and disability inclusion in Ethiopia’s textile, garment and leather enterprises, reaching more than 650 managers and supervisors as well as workers, including workers with disabilities.

Entrepreneurship and AI

An AI business adviser in your pocket: What we are learning from the ILO’s SABY pilot

The ILO is piloting SABY, a WhatsApp-based AI business adviser designed to give entrepreneurs practical, continuous support. Early experience across Africa shows how entrepreneurs are using AI to solve everyday business challenges, from improving...

Environmentally sustainable economies

ILO policy brief highlights the world of work implications of land degradation and desertification

An ILO policy brief highlights why efforts to address land degradation and desertification must also consider jobs, livelihoods, decent work and just transition.

Press release

ILO and BPVP Samarinda strengthen youth skills for a Just Energy Transition in Indonesia

The ILO and the Samarinda Vocational Training and Productivity Centre (BPVP Samarinda) are working together to prepare young people and workers for the energy transition by developing the skills needed for a greener, more inclusive and sustainable...

Inclusive growth through a Market Systems Development (MSD) approach

Expanding Impact: Public-Private Development Partnerships (PPDP) project enters phase 2 in Nakuru, Kajiado, and Narok Counties

Following the Public Private Development Partnerships (PPDP) project phase 1's achievements in Nakuru and Narok, the expansion into Kajiado County aims to address challenges in agriculture, eco-tourism, and green industries.

New cooperatives strengthen livelihoods and opportunities in Timor-Leste

Two newly established cooperatives in Timor-Leste bring communities together to share skills, pool resources and build stronger pathways to markets and sustainable livelihoods.

Just transition

Japan’s SME decarbonization calls for just transition finance

As Japan’s automotive sector decarbonizes, SMEs face growing pressure to adapt. A just transition will require not only new technologies and finance, but also skills development, workforce support and targeted policies to ensure no one is left...

Costa Rica and Dominican Republic advance institutionalization of ILO cooperative training tools

Twenty-eight trainers from national institutions in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic have received ILO certification, strengthening national capacity to progressively integrate ILO cooperative training tools and methodologies into existing...

Republic of Korea adopts Framework Act on the Social and Solidarity Economy

The new law establishes a coherent national policy framework for the social and solidarity economy, strengthening policy coordination in the Republic of Korea while offering a potential reference point for the wider region and international policy...

Digital transformation

Digitalized e-contracts and e-wages: A new era for labour rights in Jordan

Through digital wage payments and a unified electronic contract system for private education workers, Jordan is improving labour protections, promoting women's financial inclusion and strengthening compliance with labour standards.

Our impact, their voices

Powering Moldova’s green future: How skills training opened new doors for a young woman

A young woman in Moldova is turning skills training into a career in renewable energy, as an ILO project funded by Liechtenstein and Austria helps modernize vocational education and prepare a new generation of workers for the country’s green...

Responsible business conduct

Mentorship supports human rights due diligence in Thailand’s automotive and electronics supply chains

Seven companies participated in a new four-day programme designed to build responsible business conduct (RBC) through peer learning, dialogue and hands-on facilitation.

Global Accelerator

Uzbekistan strengthens capacity to develop care cooperatives

An ILO Training of Trainers explored how cooperative approaches can help expand quality care services and create decent work opportunities in Uzbekistan.

Press release

ILO supports Syria’s shift to a greener economy through skills, partnerships and policy dialogue

Green skills development is helping equip workers and institutions with the knowledge needed to support Syria's just transition and sustainable recovery.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Advancing the social and solidarity economy in Switzerland: Support networks, needs and prospects

Constance André-Aigret, Coordinator of the APRÈS-VD Chamber of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), discusses how SSE support networks strengthen SSE entities, the key challenges they face, and the opportunities for advancing the SSE in...

Ibero-American ministers adopt new commitments on care, social and solidarity economy and digital labour

The declarations adopted in Avilés set a regional agenda on care, informality, artificial intelligence and platform work, with technical support from the ILO.

Article

Employment-intensive fish farming creates green jobs in Uganda

With ILO support, a fish farming group in Isingiro District is demonstrating how employment-intensive nature-based solutions can create jobs, strengthen community cooperation and protect wetland ecosystems.

Cooperatives

Better Together: Caribbean peer learning strengthens fisheries cooperatives

Within the framework of the ILO-FAO FISH4ACP Project, fisherfolk from Guyana participated in a study tour and learning exchange with peers in Barbados, strengthening cooperatives and regional collaboration.