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ILO’s intervention at webinar series “Employment and Entrepreneurship for Chinese Youth”

The covid-19 pandemic has a severe impact on global youth employment. This is also true for the 8.74 million Chinese university graduates. The ILO is providing employment and entrepreneurship advice for the Chinese youth.

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

Indonesian enterprises barely survive, jobs at risk

Indonesian enterprises and jobs are impacted severely by the COVID-19 outbreak, a recent ILO enterprise survey reveals. Survival of enterprises and saving jobs are a race against time, calling for urgent actions by the government and social partners.

RSPP Polls More Than 900 Russian Companies

IIn April 2020, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) conducted a country-wide survey among its members based on the methodology of the International Labour Organization to find out how much the Covid-19 pandemic affected...

COVID-19 pandemic

Media Advisory: Third ILO virtual roundtable on COVID-19 to discuss possible mitigation and building back better measures for Caribbean...

The virtual roundtable will seek to advance regional dialogue on how Caribbean Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and the organizations that support them can generate opportunities and ensure the devastating effects of the crisis are not...

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

Supporting the survival of Indonesian MSMEs with business continuity plan

The COVID-19 outbreak has hit micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and their workers the harded, including in Indonesia. The ILO in collaboration with SYIB Associations provide an online training programme on business continuity plan to help...

COVID-19 and the world of work

ILO and CoESL to host clinic on challenges and solutions for Caribbean MSMEs in times of COVID-19

Selected entrepreneurs from different countries and sectors to share perspectives on how MSMEs across the Caribbean are faring during the pandemic.

After COVID-19: SCORE trained enterprise gets back to work

Like many small and medium-sized enterprises impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Zhejiang Communications Construction Group (CICO) needed to quickly adapt to survive.

Interviews: Covid-19 in the wood furniture manufacturing sector Viet Nam

We have been keeping in touch with SCORE Trained enterprises around the globe to see how Covid-19 is impacting their business & how they are taking care of workers. Used to looking for ways to overcome challenges, most companies are optimistic that...

Small businesses in Bulawayo contribute to the COVID-19 response

As the world comes to terms with the impact of COVID-19, manufacturers of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as masks, gloves and medical robes are struggling to address shortages in key inputs for their production following disturbances in...

COVID-19 pandemic

ILO Caribbean COVID-19 Virtual Roundtable Series

Bi-weekly topical and thematic virtual roundtables that are open to the public. Participants to include representatives from governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, media, academia, as well as members of the general public who are...

Ghana Study Tour: An opportunity to learn and share knowledge on the gold supply chain

My name is Silvia Possenti and I work as Supply Chain and Enterprises Officer for the Accelerating Action for the Elimination of Child Labour in Supply Chains in Africa (ACCEL Africa), an International Labour Organization (ILO) project at the...

Fight child labour amid Covid19 in Uganda

Child labour in Uganda manifests in different communities sometimes hidden underneath the pretext of preparing children for a productive adulthood. According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), child labour is defined as work that...

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

ILO welcomes joint action to tackle COVID-19 threats to global garment industry

Employers, workers, retailers and major brands will form an international working group – convened by the International Labour Organization – to address the already serious damage to the garment industry caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Assessing market opportunities in East Darfur and West Kordofan

In March 2020, the ILO visited West Kordofan and East Darfur to assess opportunities for local economic development.

COVID-19: Stimulating the economy and employment

COVID-19 responses must be built on human solidarity, ILO tells World Bank/IMF

In submissions to the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank the ILO Director-General has laid out a four-pillar plan of policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis, that are human-centred and built on global solidarity.

Working during COVID-19: How one company is using SCORE Training to keep workers safe

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted small and medium-sized enterprises all over the world. This case study explores how one enterprise Zhejiang Communication Construction Ltd. (CICO) in Zhejiang, China is using SCORE Training to ensure...

Preliminary analysis of a garment industry survey in Ethiopia on COVID-19 impact

The ILO conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with managers from garment and textile factories in Ethiopia from 1-3 April 2020. Presented here are preliminary summary results from the conversations.

ILO Voices | Small enterprises

Which policies can help small businesses withstand COVID-19

Small and medium-sized enterprises and their employees are an essential part of the social and economic fabric of daily life worldwide. This vital role is now under threat from the unprecedented effects of COVID-19.

COVID-19

Viet Nam can well address labour market challenges

ILO Viet Nam Director Chang-Hee Lee answers some questions on COVID-19's impacts to Viet Nam’s labour market and the roles of social protection and suggests policy resonses.

Editorial

COVID-19 in Vietnam: The unprecedented dual crisis

"If we fail to save people’s livelihoods, we will ultimately fail to protect their life and heath against the virus, and vice versa" explains ILO Viet Nam Director, Chang-Hee Lee, emphasizing the health and economic challenges posed by the COVID-19...