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SCORE Launch Event under the ILO & ETI PPP Collaboration Framework

ILO and ETI to aid SMEs in Guangdong that supply international brands

On 15 March 2017, the ILO Office for China and Mongolia and Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) launched a project to improve the productivity, competiveness and sustainability of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Guangzhou City, Guangdong...

Equality for all = Success for all

International Womens Day 2017 marks the launch of our new gender equality campaign in the workplace “Equality for all = Success for all”.

Country Brief Summary: Gender equality in recruitment and promotion practices in Viet Nam

The ILO in Viet Nam in co-operation with Navigos Search conducted a review of 12,300 job advertisements in the country’s four largest job portals, backed up by two online surveys to discover whether gender-based discrimination exists in hiring...

Annual report

ILO Impact Insurance Facility takes innovative approach to reduce uninsured risks

How an ILO programme adds significant value to enterprises and gives hope to some 4 billion low-income people still excluded from appropriate insurance products throughout the world.

Financing still troubles small businesses

An opinion-editorial by Owais Parray, the Chief Technical Adviser of the ILO's Promoting Micro and Small Enterprises through Entrepreneur’s Access to Financial Services (PROMISE IMPACT) Project in Indonesia highlighting the importance of micro and...

SCORE Training in International Supply Chains

At the ILO International Labour Conference (ILC), constituents recognized the need to ensure global supply chains contribute to sustainable development, inclusive economic growth and decent work for all. SCORE Training is playing a part in reaching...

ILO assists South Africa in developing value chain to boost job creation

ILO presented the Value Chain Development model in South Africa’s Jobs Fund’s Learning Forum

Young entrepreneurs from Latin America need innovative policies and government support

Around 20% of young people in the workforce currently qualify as entrepreneurs, mostly in conditions of economic vulnerability. ILO and UNDP considered necessary to "rethink" policies to improve the integration of youth in a labor market where...

ILO’s Know About Business (KAB) educational programme introduced into 20 Palestinian technical colleges

With the aim of creating sustainable jobs, the initiative is part of efforts to promote an entrepreneurial culture among youth and help create and promote small enterprises.

SIYB training helped me launch my own business

ILO's flagship programme on micro and small enterprise development is helping to create millions of jobs worldwide. This is currently being implemented in several Indian states and in over 100 countries worldwide.

Op-Ed

Better Work is better business in global supply chains

Gender equality

Creating a culture of gender equality in Indonesian SMEs

The large majority of employment for both women and men in Indonesia is found in small-sized and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with more than 50 percent of Indonesian workers are still engaged in informal employment. Furthermore, the key to...

Occupational safety and health

Making Chinese factories safer

The ILO SCORE programme helps factories in China improve their record on occupational safety.

Monitoring ILO's SIYB Programme in Tajikistan

On 26-29 July 2016, John Bliek, ILO-Moscow Senior Enterprise Specialist, visited Dushanbe to monitor the implementation of the ILO’s Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) Programme.

5th anniversary of ILO Convention No 189

Who cares for the carers?

On International Domestic Workers’ Day, some good news on protecting vulnerable workers in the home - An OP-ED on the Domestic Workers Convention by Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General.

World Day against Child Labour 2016

End child labour in supply chains: It’s everyone’s business

"Acting together, it is within our means to make the future of work a future without child labour," says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on the occasion of World Day against Child Labour.

World Day against Child Labour 2016

A journey to child labour free in supply chains

Manipulating the age or borrowing another person’s diploma is not a secret for underage applicants who work in garment factories. They have to work to support their families although they have to face the harsh reality that as child labourers they...

105th International Labour Conference

ILO Director-General: “ILO sets course to promote decent work in global supply chains, in transition from conflict and crisis and in making...

World parliament of labour sets the course for global action to shape the future of work.

World Day Against Child Labour

ILO: Ending child labour in supply chains is everyone's business

World Day against Child Labour 2016

Tackling child labour in supply chains in Indonesia

This year’s World Day against Child Labour is marked by a focus on child labour and supply chains. Taking the theme: “End Child Labour in Supply Chains”, the International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the United States Embassy in...