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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...
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...
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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...
Skills development
Empowering Timor-Leste’s trainers: ILO and EU invest in future workforce development
The ILO’s Agroforestry Skills Programme, funded by the EU, supports certified training for local trainers in Timor-Leste to advance the standard of vocational education nationwide.
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Kenya’s TVET system transforms through innovations and training
Kenya’s ambition to build a globally competitive workforce hinges on the capacity of its vocational trainers. Supported by the ILO PROSPECTS programme, the Kenya School of TVET has emerged as the driving force behind modern, standards-based training...
ILO nurtures dreams with a scent of training: Artissan Café, the fruit of SENATIC in the mountains of Risaralda
In the misty highlands of Santa Rosa de Cabal, where rural hamlets seem suspended in the clouds and coffee grows as a farming legacy, three young people decided to change the story of their community. Thanks to the SENATIC project a partnership...
The empowering journey of a young Timorese cooperative leader and entrepreneur
Through various skills training programmes, a young Timorese cooperative leader has transformed his life and empowered his community toward greater economic resilience and inclusion.
The strength of Hercules in the classroom: the ILO and the legacy of Giovanny Suárez Iglesias in Santa Marta
Just like Hercules, who in Greco Roman mythology combined physical strength with nobility of spirit, Giovanny Alfonzo Suárez Iglesias stands out for his imposing presence and for the impact he leaves on those around him. Standing 1.94 metres tall...
ILO’s Commitment to skills development at Industrial Skills Week Africa 2025
The ILO joins Industrial Skills Week Africa (ISWA) 2025 in Lusaka to advance dialogue on skills, jobs, and Africa’s industrial transformation, with focus on the Africa Critical Skills Bank and the Continental Technical and Vocational Education and...
Skills development
Timor-Leste takes a major step toward agroforestry advancement
The launch of the Agroforestry Sector Working Group marks a major step in uniting government institutions, development partners and stakeholders to strengthen Timor-Leste’s agroforestry sector.
Skills development
Lao youth compete with excellence at WorldSkills ASEAN 2025
Supported by the ILO/China Partnership Programme on Skill Development, the young professionals represented their country, competing in various skill categories.
From San Andrés island, lives are being transformed through technology and an ILO backed project
This is the case of Keyn Manuel Martínez, who guides his eleventh grade students along the path of technical education, creatively tackling the challenges of language, exclusion, and the geographical distance between the archipelago and the...
With the support of the ILO, Javier Quintero Rojas is enthusiastically shaping a generation transformed by technology
From the mountains of Bucaramanga, with roots in the warm and quiet land of Gamarra, Javier Quintero has made teaching his life project and technology a tool to transform the present of hundreds of young people. His commitment to technical...
The ILO and SENATIC continue paving the way to the future: this is the story of Dayarlin, a young woman transforming her life through...
From the hills of Bucaramanga, in Comuna 14, a young Venezuelan learner shows that a passion for technology can be the driving force to build dreams and forge a professional life with independence and purpose. Dayarlin is one of the many voices that...
With the support of the ILO, Arleidis Pushaina overcomes barriers to study technology and serve her Wayúu community
From the Lomamatos ranchería in the municipality of Hatonuevo (La Guajira), Arleidis Pushaina Pushaina is moving forward with determination as a trainee in the SENATIC programme.
Future of work
Planning for the future of work: Tajikistan and ILO conduct foresight workshop
The ILO and tripartite partners of the Republic of Tajikistan host “Employment and skills foresight workshop: Tajikistan 2045” to explore future labour market trends and policy responses.
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Lighting up futures: Skills training transforms lives in Ethiopia’s Somali region
With support from the ILO through the PROSPECTS partnership, Mustofa and Abdurehman – from refugee and host communities respectively – turned their lives around through skills training in electrical installation. Today, they are powering essential...
Empowering youth through mobility: Refrigerated trucks for horticulture hub
A refrigerated truck and a seven-ton truck was handed over to the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Development and Vocational Training to strengthen operations at the Mutoko Fruit and Vegetable Hub. The Hub is part of AfDB's support to the youth and...
"From adversity to purpose: a young man from southwestern Colombia who, thanks to the support of the ILO and SENATIC, now believes in the...
"Every time I was mistreated as a child, I learned to rise stronger. Today, I use technology to build" says Luis Felipe Ñañez Ibarra, a trainee in the SENATIC project an initiative led by the Ministry of ICT, SENA and the ILO that is transforming...
The ILO and SENATIC open pathways: the story of a young migrant who now dreams of becoming an architect
Alexandra Barroso Palmar, a young Venezuelan migrant, has transformed pain into opportunity thanks to the SENATIC project a partnership between the Ministry of ICT, SENA and the ILO. This initiative has given her the strength to dream of becoming an...
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