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European Development Days 2013

Bangladesh needs properly skilled workforce say ILO, EU and Bangladesh

The ILO organized a panel on “Skills for Bangladesh” at the European Development Days 2013 in Brussels. Bangladesh has a fast-growing labour population and needs a properly skilled workforce to be competitive and to ensure decent living conditions...

International Organisation of Employers and Business and Industry Advisory Committee set up Global Apprenticeships Network

To ensure skills for business and create employment for youth the International Organisation of Employers (IOE), together with the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC) co-host the Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN), in...

Department of Labour Protection and Welfare (DLPW) and ILO-IPEC work together to prepare for Thailand’s second National Plan of Actions on...

The ILO-IPEC Thailand together with the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare (DLPW) which acts as a secretariat to the National Committee on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour opened up a new chapter in this work by...

Vocational training

VN gains Philippine experience in vocational education reform

As Viet Nam is amending the Law on Vocational Education and Training, the ILO in Viet Nam organized a study tour for senior officials to see the Philippine models.

Projections from ECLAC and ILO

Latin American and Caribbean unemployment rate could fall to 6.2% in 2013

Agencies state that this would be a slight decrease in relation to 2012, owing to a slowdown in the labour participation rate.

Sustainable Development and Decent Work Solution Forum

ILO sharing knowledge and boosting green jobs

Sharing best practices for the promotion of green jobs can have a positive impact on sustainable development around the globe. A number of countries are meeting this week in Nairobi with that purpose in mind.

Astrakhan hosts international conference on youth employment

On October 16-18 the southern Russian city of Astrakhan hosted a subregional conference focusing on trade unions’ participation in youth employment policy-making, which was organized with the support of the International Labour Organization.

Rural development

Timor-Leste: When a short road makes a huge difference

In a country where 75 per cent of the population live in rural areas and 40 per cent are below the poverty line, improving a short stretch of road can mean more jobs and a better quality of life for rural workers and their families.

Vocational Training Course for Young Migrant Workers launched in Samut Sakhon

With technical and financial support from the ILO/IPEC the Labour Rights Promotion Network (LPN) has begun collaborating with the Provincial Non-Formal Education Office and the Mahachai Automotive Institute of Technology (MIAT) to provide vocational...

International Youth Day in Azerbaijan

On August 12 a meeting on the occasion of the International Youth Day, focusing in 2013 on “Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward”, took place at the UN Office in Baku and brought together representatives of youth NGOs, experts from the ILO,...

Child labour

Convergence – A way to end child labour in India

The ILO teams up with the local authorities to help remove and prevent children from entering child labour in urban and rural areas in five states.

Australia and ILO announce new programme of training support to Secretariat of State for Vocational Training and Employment (SEPFOPE) of...

Australian Ambassador to Timor-Leste Miles Armitage, and Secretary of State for Vocational Training and Employment Policy, Ilidio Ximenes, today (16/7) formally launched a new program of support to the skills and training sector.

Vocational training is key to the future of decent work in the region

ILO-CINTERFOR convenes regional meeting with representatives from 27 countries stressed the need to strengthen professional skills, as a prereuisite to facilitate the access of millions of people to more and better jobs

Partnership for skills training

ILO-Japan sign ¥30,831,000 skills’ training initiative

A collaboration between the Government of Japan and the International Labour Organization will strengthen a range of courses offered by the International Training Centre in Turin, Italy.

ILO supported Sindh TEVTA in establishing 147 Institute Management Committees to strengthen ‘Industry-Institute Linkages’

The Empowering Vulnerable Groups through Education, Employment and Training (EET project) has supported Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority in strengthening industry-institute linkages (IIL) and work place learning (WPL) for...

Bangladesh

Removing the barriers to inclusion

People with disabilities are overturning negative attitudes and stereotypes, with help from an ILO vocational training project in Bangladesh.

Kazakhstan introduces dual education: PM

Dreaming of a Tumpoun centre in Laaen Kren

Por Mach is a member of the Tumpoun tribe in Rattanakiri, Cambodia. As a 46-year-old widow with six children it was hard to earn enough to live. But with the help of the ILO’s Creative Industry Support Programme, she improved her skills and...

Vocational training centre launched in Tashkent in partnership with KIOCA

A vocational training centre was launched in Tashkent on July 25. It was created by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Uzbekistan in cooperation with Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

ILO an implementing organization for EU’s Programme for Support to Reconstruction and Development in selected Districts in North and East...