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Innovative approaches to workforce training: ILO prepares a group of trainers in Pakistan

Islamabad: The ILO, together with the Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (STEVTA) is initiating for the first Competency Based Training and Assessment in Sindh.

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Building Haiti through training and employability programmes

As a reaction to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010, the international community has pledged multi-billion US$ support programmes. However, the country will only be able to harvest this massive support if it finds qualified...

Ray of hope – Ramayees’s story

Fishing had been the mainstay of Ramayee and her husband Kandeeban of the tiny coastal hamlet of Oyalikuppam before that fateful day in December 2004 when giant waves of Tsunami washed away their home and virtually everything they owned including...

ILO to share its lessons learnt on youth employment in Maluku

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is organizing a two-day Seminar on Impact and Lessons Learnt on Youth Employment in Maluku from 25 – 26 October at Swiss Bell Hotel, Ambon, Maluku, based on its experience executing the Education and...

ILO - HIPMI to launch study on business environment for young entrepreneursin Indonesia

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Indonesian Association of Young Entrepreneurs (HIPMI) will launch a study on business environment for young entrepreneurs on 10 October in Jakarta.

ILO to share its lessons learnt on school to work transition

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is organizing a two-day Technical Seminar on Impact and Lessons Learnt on School to Work Transition, from 4 – 5 October at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Jakarta, based on its experience executing the Education and...

ILO-CDB-UNESCO offer training to enhance skills development policies and systems in region

Senior policy and technical staff of Ministries of Labour and Education, and National Training Agencies/Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Councils from across the Caribbean are to be exposed to training in the area of promoting...

Sindh TEVTA starts Entrepreneurship Education in TEVT Institutes with ILO Support

Skilled young women and men of Sindh will be further equipped with entrepreneurial skills to start their own small businesses. Technical Education & Vocational Training (TEVT) Institutes of Sindh will start imparting entrepreneurship courses...

Young Timorese beautician is a cut above the rest

Eugenia de Jesus Cardoso now runs a successful beauty salon in her hometown, in Maliana, her hometown in Timore-Leste. She gained the business and specialist skills she needed during a training programme run by the Timore-Leste Government and the...

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HIV/AIDS training in Russia: “To know means to live”

The 100th Session of the International Labour Conference also marks one year since the adoption of ILO Recommendation No. 200 – the first international human rights instrument to focus specifically on the issue of HIV/AIDS in the world of work. The...

Tajikistan’s trainers learn how to organize occupational risk assessment trainings

ILO and BP sign a Public Private Partnership agreement in Indonesia

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and BP have signed a Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement to promote employability and entrepreneurship among Papuan youth in Bintuni Bay Area, West Papua, an emerging oil and gas cluster in...

Empowering ex-child labourers with vocational training

The International Labour Organization (ILO) through its International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) is organizing an inauguration for ex-child labourers graduating from vocational training on sewing on Saturday, 12 March 2011,...

ILO – MoNE Team up on Training for Jobs

The International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) will hold a five-day Training of Trainers (ToT) on 4 in 1 Training Handbook from 13 – 17 December 2010 in Balai Pengembangan Pendidikan Non...

Argentina: Experience in programmes for income protection and employability improvement

Global Dialogue Forum on Vocational Education and Training (29-30 September 2010)

Teachers and trainers for the future: Vocational training in a changing world

The ILO estimates that unemployment is up by more than 30 million worldwide since 2007. The number of unemployed youth increased by 8.5 million between 2008 and 2009, the largest year-on-year increase in at least ten years. Against this sombre...

Changing a young man's life

By R. Sivapragasam, Senior Training Specialist, ILO Office in Colombo. (Batticaloa, Sri Lanka) Many young people in Sri Lanka have to drop out of school to support their families. 17-year-old Thangavel Nadesaseelan, from a remote village in...

Launch of skill development initiative for domestic workers/household assistants

The Delhi Government, the Ministry of Labour and Employment and ILO have joined hands to kick-start a pilot training programme to skill and re-skill domestic workers/household assistants across the Delhi and Noida region. The Pilot programme aims...

Fellowship programme for policy makers

The first fellowship batch under the Technical and Vocational Education Training project comprising of senior government and employers'organization visited Malaysia and Australia. The objective was to provide them first hand knowledge on the...

Vocational Education and Business: the Dialogue of Partners