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ILO PROSPECTS launches learning portal to transform forced displacement response

The ILO PROSPECTS Learning Portal turns years of field experience into practical, interactive resources to help practitioners, policymakers, and partners improve responses to forced displacement worldwide.

Senegal validates the national policy for quality vocational training

Senegal validates its national policy on quality apprenticeships: a key milestone for youth employment and economic development.

Saudi Arabia advances cooperative development through institutional strengthening and training

ILO supports the Cooperative Societies Council’s strategic strengthening and delivers the first national Training of Trainers on Think.COOP and Start.COOP.

Green Skills and Just Transition

ILO empowers technical and vocational training institutions to drive Ethiopia’s green transition

Training participants of the ILO’s Green TVT training are putting their skills into action, transforming their colleges, improving training quality, and creating new income opportunities through sustainable practices. With support from NORAD, the...

This is social justice

Employment training creates inclusive green jobs in Jordan

Alaa Mhairat tells us how she gained financial independence and found work in an agricultural project to create a green environment for her community in Jordan.

Podcast series: Global challenges – Global solutions

Trade: Good or bad for jobs?

Is trade good or bad for jobs? It goes without saying that trade and investment have contributed to job creation, expanded market opportunities, raised incomes and improved working conditions across the globe. But does this remain a viable strategy...

New community spaces create jobs and strengthen social cohesion in Jordan through ILO–Germany partnership

The Hallabat Municipality Park and Playground and Bergish Community and Educational Centre promote decent work, community wellbeing and social inclusion, with funding from Germany through the KfW Development Bank under the ILO Employment Intensive...

Local economic development

Transforming local economic opportunities: The European Union-funded ILO PROSPER Project officially launched in Southern Belize

The ILO and EU in partnership with Government of Belize have launched the PROSPER Project in southern Belize, a four-year initiative valued at BZD 8.9 million. The project aims to build resilience and inclusive growth across the Toledo and Stann...

Empowering migrant workers in Indonesia and Thailand with digital, cybersecurity and financial skills

Through digital micro-courses, 52 trainers and 140 migrant workers across Indonesia and Thailand enhanced their financial skills and digital awareness against online scams and fraud.

Global Skills Forum 2025 puts private sector at the heart of workforce development

Hosted by Malaysia under the ASEAN Year of Skills 2025, the Forum highlights the importance of industry-led initiatives to meet future skills needs.

Nigeria Takes Bold Steps Toward Decent Work Through Skills Reform

The Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, in partnership with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) initiated a national dialogue to reshape Nigeria’s skills development...

Skills for the future of work

Bridging education and work: ILO advances future-ready skills at Grenada’s National Summit

The ILO joined national leaders and partners at Grenada’s National Education Summit to champion future-ready skills, highlight the role of educators in a transforming labour market, and advance stronger links between education and decent work.

Skills development

Africa Skills Week 2025 launches new strategy and partnerships for skills development

Africa Skills Week 2025 brought together continental partners to launch a new Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) strategy, expand public–private partnerships, and kick off a major work-based learning initiative. The event...

Skills development

Philippe N’dri Calls for Greater Investment in Skills Development Across Africa

In this interview, Dr Philippe N’dri, President of RAFPRO, highlights why stronger investment in skills development and coordinated financing across Africa is essential for boosting enterprise productivity, strengthening national training systems,...

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

Youth driving change: Skills development and decent work to break the poverty cycle

To mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the ILO shares the stories of Patricia (Peru) and Fátima (Mexico), two young women who show how skills development and decent work can break the cycle of poverty.

From cocoa fields to a brighter future: Divine’s journey

In Ondo State, Nigeria, the ILO’s ACCEL Africa project is transforming lives once defined by child labour. Divine, who began working on cocoa and palm oil farms at age nine, is now building a future through skills training in makeup artistry.

PROSPECTS Impact

From daily labourers to skilled entrepreneurs: How plumbing training transformed lives in Ethiopia

In the dusty streets of Kebribeyah town, a quiet transformation is underway. What began as a three-month plumbing training at the Kebribeyah Vocational Training Satellite Center has changed into a thriving business, so far changing the lives of four...

Skills development

Timorese cacao farmers enhance their agricultural skills to improve their lives

The ILO, with support from the EU, promotes sustainable agriculture in the cocoa sector of Manufahi Municipality, Timor-Leste.

ILO Voices | Women's entrepreneurship

Between Spain and Morocco, I built my independence

After years of working in seasonal agriculture in Spain, Fatima Laanieg took part in the ILO’s WAFIRA project, learning how to manage a business. Now, she runs her own grocery store in Morocco while continuing to work abroad for part of the year.

Impact story

How one student’s path to trainer builds future of 70 others 

With support from ILO PROSPECTS, welding training and upgraded training workshops in Garissa, Kenya are turning skills into real jobs. Dominic Munyi, a former student, now a certified trainer, has helped 70 refugee and host community youth build...