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Green skills

Green construction skills chart a sustainable future for Filipino youth

For young Filipinos, green construction skills are opening the door for a better future of work while helping build stronger, safer, and more climate resilient communities.

Entrepreneurship

Trade union members build entrepreneurship skills for Indonesia's just energy transition

The ILO is strengthening the capacity of trade unions in Indonesia to promote entrepreneurship and help workers navigate the country's just energy transition.

Leadership skills for women

ILO training strengthens pathways for women workers to lead in Ethiopia’s Garment, Textile and Leather Factories

A four-day Training of Trainers in Bishoftu has equipped SCORE trainers and experts with practical leadership, coaching and mentoring skills to help more women workers move into supervisory and leadership roles across Ethiopia’s leather, textile and...

Just energy transition

The next generation helps shape Indonesia's just energy transition

A joint workshop by the ILO and its university partner helps students explore the role of innovation, green jobs and social dialogue in advancing Indonesia's just energy transition.

Press release

Young people key to advancing a Just Energy Transition in Indonesia

ILO and Airlangga University (UNAIR) are encouraging young people to play an active role in ensuring that Indonesia's energy transition is fair, inclusive and creates decent work for all.

Senegal integrates the social and solidarity economy into its national framework for professional integration

At the African Social and Solidarity Economy Forum (FORA'ESS), the ILO highlights the results of its support for cooperatives and backs a reform that opens new prospects for decent work for young people.

Turning e-waste into opportunity: Zambia's journey towards green jobs for young people

Uganda strengthens rural livelihoods to help prevent child labour in coffee-growing communities

Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) supported by the ILO's ACCEL Africa project are helping coffee-growing households diversify their incomes, strengthen their financial resilience and reduce the economic pressures that contribute to child...

One in three private sector workers surveyed in Lebanon no longer working amid renewed hostilities, ILO report finds

New worker-level evidence shows severe job losses, income decline and rising insecurity, highlighting the need to place decent work at the centre of crisis response and recovery.

ILO launches phase II of Nigeria’s social dimension of ecological transition project

New ILO initiative will place decent work, sustainable enterprise development and livelihoods at the centre of Nigeria’s ecological transition, helping ensure that the transition is fair, inclusive and people centred.

International Day of Cooperatives

Cooperatives for a Peaceful World: A message from the ILO Director-General

In his message marking the International Day of Cooperatives 2026, ILO Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo highlights the vital role of cooperatives in advancing peace through decent work, social justice and resilient communities.

Care Economy

Nepal advances care cooperatives to support care workers, families and women’s economic participation

A new national initiative to promote care cooperatives in Nepal is set to strengthen community-based care services, support care workers, and reduce the unpaid and invisible caring responsibilities that continues to limit women’s participation in...

International day of cooperatives

A youth-led poultry cooperative gives entrepreneurs in Ethiopia a pathway to decent work

With support from the ILO, a cooperative in Addis Ababa is showing how a sustainable enterprise can strengthen livelihoods and help create opportunities for young people.

Five international lessons on the social and solidarity economy for the Palestinian context

From crisis response and care services to local economic development and digitalization, countries around the world are increasingly turning to the social and solidarity economy (SSE) and its entities to address pressing social and economic...

Training course

ITCILO launches summer school on social dialogue and living wages

Organised with the support of the French Ministry of Labour and Solidarity, the course will examine how tripartite social dialogue and collective bargaining can help turn living wage principles into practice.

How Motorbike taxi drivers are joining forces in a cooperative to secure decent work in Senegal

Lebanon’s national tripartite dialogue sets shared priorities for an economic recovery grounded in decent work

Amid the ongoing hostilities and economic crisis, dialogue identifies shared priorities to protect jobs, sustain enterprises, support workers and safeguard their rights, uphold the fundamental principles and rights at work, and strengthen labour...

Kenya certifies cooperative trainers to strengthen child-labour-free coffee and tea supply chains

The ILO has certified 55 county-based trainers to strengthen cooperative governance and integrate child labour prevention into Kenya's coffee and tea sectors. The initiative is implemented through the ACCEL Africa project, financed by the Ministry...

Enterprise development

New National Business Development Services Portal connects Bangladesh's entrepreneurs with finance, training and business support services

ILO, SME Foundation and the Ministry of Industries have launched Bangladesh's national Business Development Services (BDS) Portal - a one-stop digital platform connecting entrepreneurs with finance, training, licensing and market information.

MSME Day 2026

ILO Director-General's message for International Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day

In his message for International MSME Day 2026, ILO Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo highlights the vital role of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises in creating jobs and calls for policies that support entrepreneurship, decent work and...