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Start and Improve Your Business - Success Stories 2024
A woman’s journey in leather craftsmanship
Violet Mhute, owner of Soko Genuine Leather in Zimbabwe, shifted from exporting hides to manufacturing leather goods. With Expand Your Business (EYB) training, she scaled her business beyond Zimbabwe and now seeks to empower other women.
Start and Improve Your Business - Success Stories 2024
From unemployment to natural juices entrepreneurship
Almir Brković from Tuzla founded Treasury of Health RB, producing natural juices and jams. With Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) training, he transformed his idea into a successful business, combining entrepreneurship with a commitment to...
Start and Improve Your Business - Success Stories 2024
Pineapple farming brings new opportunities in the Jordan Valley
Amer Basem Ahmad Faqha, an agricultural engineer from Tubas, cultivates pineapples in the Jordan Valley. With ILO’s Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) training, he improved irrigation, reduced costs, and expanded his farm, creating a cooperative...
Start and Improve Your Business - Success Stories 2024
Empowered by the ILO: Haya Said Sheikh's sweet success with Quick Sesame
Haya Said Sheikh, through her business Quick Sesame, has successfully introduced healthy, sugar-free versions of traditional Palestinian sweets. With the support of the ILO's Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) entrepreneurship training...
Start and Improve Your Business - Success Stories 2024
A Venezuelan bakery business thrives in Colombia
Venezuelan migrant Roisi Gabriela Indriago runs De un Bocado, a bakery in Bucaramanga. With Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) training, she improved pricing, inventory, and marketing, growing sales and expanding her reach through social media...
Start and Improve Your Business - Success Stories 2024
From IT graduation to green entrepreneurship
After losing her IT job, Leilah Saleh Djidda turned to sustainable farming. With Start and Improve your Business (SIYB) training, she launched AL AZZIM BIO, an organic farming initiative using water hyacinth as biofertilizer to cut costs, improve...
Start and Improve Your Business - Success Stories 2024
A business to empower women in northern Nigeria
Through Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) training, Rahila Abdu gained the skills to launch Household Essentials, a business that empowers women by providing training in liquid soap, body cream, and insecticide production. Overcoming financial...
Gender equality
Bangladesh forms inter-ministerial gender and skills taskforce to spearhead gender mainstreaming in employment
Skills development in Indonesia
ILO, Manpower Ministry’s Training Centre and Matsushita Gobel Institute strengthen the capacities of human resources in the electronics...
The ILO join forces with relevant partners to strengthen public-private partnership in providing quality trainings and improve workers’ competency according to the needs of the Indonesian electronics industry.
Skills development
Indonesia enhances workforce development with key industry partnerships to boost skills in electronics sector
The ILO supports efforts taken by Indonesia in improving the competency of human capital in its electronics sector.
PROSPECTS Impact
Vocational skills boost economic integration of Ethiopia's refugee and host youth
Seventy-five youth from refugee and host communities in Ethiopia graduate from the Jigjiga Polytechnic College through an ILO-supported vocational program, empowering them for employment and self-reliance.
News
Training on TVET institution management and improvement to promote agroforestry products in Timor-Leste
The International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO), under the European Union-funded Agroforestry Skills for Employment and Resilience Project, recently held a transformative five-day workshop on Technical and Vocational Education and Training...
Lifelong learning
Philippines assesses lifelong learning for continuous education
Experts and partners convene and use the ILO toolkit to evaluate and improve lifelong learning programmes in the Philippines, resulting in strategic recommendations for enhancement.
Advanced training programme in solar energy
ILO and FYCCI launch advanced solar energy training programme to empower technicians and strengthen Yemen's renewable energy sector
This programme, with funding from the EU and Sweden, represents a significant step toward building local expertise in renewable energy solutions.
BG4YE Project
Nurturing confidence and life skills through cooking
Since 2020, Yeukai Maposa has been teaching children aged six to twelve how to cook and bake. What began with 20 children in her kitchen has now grown to 80 students, and she has turned her passion for cooking and teaching into a business called...
BG4YE Project
Stepping-up: On the road to building a footwear empire
"In 2013, we were just a small group of SMEs, united by our passion for leather manufacturing. Back then, we were only able to produce a few pairs of shoes at a time—one or two pairs, if we were lucky. But now, things are different. We have grown...
Suriname preparing TVET system to better adapt to evolving labour market needs
Expected outcomes align with skills development priority of DWCP 2023-2026.
Cooperatives development
Cooperatives offer path to development in Lao People's Democratic Republic
ILO with the support of the Japanese government is playing a crucial role in empowering communities in the southern region of the Lao People's Democratic Republic through cooperative models.
Skills development
ILO supports establishment of Shared Service Facilities Centre (SSFC) to boost economic diversification and community empowerment of tea...
World Youth Skills Day 2024
EU-ILO empowers youth in Timor-Leste with agroforestry skills
The ILO celebrates World Youth Skills Day on 15 July by recognizing and supporting the empowerment of youth, particularly young women and girls, through its European Union funded Agroforestry Skills Project in Timor-Leste.
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