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G20 Virtual Leaders’ Summit

Climate change and new technologies mean double impact for workers, ILO Director-General underlines

ILO Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo highlighted the need to improve skills training in the face of multiple challenges in the world of work.

Disability and work

ILO advocates for inclusive Green Transition for Persons with Disabilities

People with disabilities can seize job opportunities in the ecological transition if given the necessary support, says a new report by the ILO Global Business and Disability Network and Fundación ONCE.

Skills development and employability

ILO and PSMB (HRD Corp) join hands to promote lifelong learning and employability in Malaysia

Agreement will see collaboration aimed at promoting lifelong learning, and enhancing employability throughout the country.

Capacity Building Workshops for In-company Trainers in Apprenticeship successfully held in Wuxi

The ILO project ‘Quality Apprenticeship and Lifelong Learning in China Phase 2’ successfully held Capacity Building Workshops for In-company Trainers in Apprenticeship in its pilot city Wuxi in Jiangsu Province, as a start of a series of technical...

Four hundred women and men from forcibly displaced and host communities in Iraq complete Work-Based Learning programmes

Implemented by ILO under the PROSPECTS Partnership, the programmes covered 18 occupations, involving 60 enterprises and enterprise owners, and an array of government and social partners, who provided youth with the necessary market-relevant skills...

ILO Voices | Informal economy

Formalization is transforming my shea butter business

Zakaria Adama Lacera shares the challenges and rewards of formalizing her shea butter production and soap business in Ghana.

Netherlands and ILO delegation visit to Duhok sheds light on PROSPECTS Partnership’s impact on host and forcibly displaced populations

The visit highlighted key aspects of ILO’s programme under the PROSPECTS Partnership to support youth in their transition to decent work, with the support of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Seventy-five women and men in Iraq's City of Basra complete a vocational training programme, paving the way for more and better employment...

The training sessions are part of the collaboration between ILO and UN-Habitat under the European Union funded project "Increasing Access to Employment Opportunities for Vulnerable Urban Population in Basra City in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis."

ILO conducts site visit to assess construction of vocational training centre in Saint Lucia

New facility will provide marginalized youth with a pathway to Decent Work.

The SEDWAY project equips youth with technical and vocational skills

With funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB), the SEDWAY project seeks to support the Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) to facilitate entrepreneurship and skills development through vocational and technical training for youths.

Polibatam exhibits good practices in creating a safe, inclusive and fair campus environment

The commitment of the Batam State Polytechnic (Polibatam), with support from the ILO, to establish a safe, inclusive and fair campus environment has been recognized by the Indonesian government. Polibatam has been invited to demonstrate its good...

Skills development

More than 58,000 Filipinos excel in improved skills development systems

An ILO-UK programme has enhanced the equity, quality and relevance of TVET and skills systems, elevating the calibre of Pinoy workers, trainers, government agencies as well as industry and social partners.

Skills development & lifelong learning

Indigenous abaca farmers harvest new prosperity

ILO-UK programme helps farmers maximize the value of their produce, making the abaca trade fairer to all players.

Skills development

Motherhood no barrier to education

For a 22-year-old mother in a community of indigenous people in the Philippines’ Iloilo province, an ILO inclusive education programme signalled the birth of a brighter future.

Skills development

Over 12,000 Malaysians thrive in enhanced TVET and skills systems

ILO, UK government and Malaysia collaboration spurs inclusive, future-ready and relevant skills development, empowering women, youth and vulnerable communities.

Empowerment through skills development

Lebanon’s green thumb: ILO trains workers from rural communities in landscaping activities across local agricultural schools

The landscaping and garden maintenance competency-based training aims to build capacity and develop the skills of hundreds of trainees in the agricultural sector, eventually connecting them with in-demand jobs on the market.

Technical and vocational education and training

Boosting core work skills of GEN Z learners

The ILO-UK Skills for Prosperity Programme has helped Filipino teachers to adopt learner-centred approaches, aiming to reduce the country’s skills mismatch.

Technical and vocational education and training and skills development

Skills: My passport to a better future

The ILO-UK Skills for Prosperity Programme helps partners implement pilots on inclusive, area-based and industry-led lifelong learning models in the Philippines.

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ILO PROSPECTS skills programme trainee shines at WorldSkills Kenya

Zeitun Said Omar, the only female candidate enrolled at the ILO PROSPECTS supported welding training course at Garissa Vocational Training Centre participated at the WorldSkills Kenya competition and stood second making her community and trainers...

Skills development

A new wave of traditional mat-making sweeps through a Philippine town

The ILO-UK Skills for Prosperity Programme has helped locals produce and sell premium, high-quality hand-woven products and thus earn a decent wage.