All news: productivity

Human Rights Day

Advancing productive employment and decent working conditions in small and medium enterprises globally for over 10 years

ILO SCORE Training’s rights-based approach to improving working conditions and productivity has, over the last decade, contributed significantly to decent work and equal opportunities in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). To celebrate Human Rights...

ILO’s SCORE programme brought tremendous improvements to Indonesian MSMEs after 12 years of implementation

The ILO handed over its Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) programme in Indonesia to national implementing partners for sustaining the productivity and competitiveness enhancement of Indonesia’s micro, small and medium...

World AIDS Day 2021

Prevent the spread of HIV and COVID-19 with VCT and vaccine programmes

The ILO joins hands with the Confederation of Indonesian Moslem Trade Union (K-Saburmusi) and the City Government of Sukabumi to prevent the spread of HIV and COVID-19 for transportation workers and people with HIV.

Sixth annual “1+6” Roundtable Dialogue

Social and labour policies crucial for China’s move to high-income status

ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, praises China’s focus on high quality growth, people-centred development, quality jobs and a greener economy in its five-year plan. He was speaking at the "1+6 Roundtable Dialogue’ on Promoting Strong, Inclusive and...

Our impact, Their voices

Adopting new management practices and safety systems leads to improved productivity, food safety and worker motivation

A well-established and growing dairy company in Myanmar took advantage of ILO SCORE Training to modernize its production and management systems, increase product quality and safety to catch up with customer needs, and improve worker engagement.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

How inequality poses significant challenges to working conditions and productivity in SMEs

A supermarket chain’s success story in kickstarting awareness and dissemination of information through ILO SCORE’s Gender Equality Module

A holistic approach rooted on shared experience and lesson learned

Colombia

ILO SCORE Training boost SMEs productivity of the cement sector in Colombia by 210%

As a result of SCORE Training, the Boyacá Cimienta Partnership (ABC) increased the productivity of its supplier firms up to 210 percent. What was the process undertaken for achieving such satisfactory results?

COVID-19: ILO Monitor – 8th edition

ILO: Employment impact of the pandemic worse than expected

Ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit, ILO warns on stalled global labour market recovery and significant disparities between advanced and developing economies.

SCORE Alumni Network is launched in Ghana

“SCORE Ghana through the leadership of the Management Development and Productivity Institute (MDPI) has launched the SCORE Alumni Network in Ghana”

More women in leadership for a sustainable garment and textile industry in Ethiopia.

The ILO Siraye programme on advancing decent work and inclusive industrialization has launched a leadership development intervention on March 2021 as part of its women empowerment objective.

World Mental Health Day

Better Work Indonesia promotes mental health and gender equality for garment industry

Better Work Indonesia (BWI), a joint programme of ILO and IFC, member of World Bank Group conducts a series of knowledge-sharing sessions to promote mental health and gender equality at its participating garment companies during the pandemic...

The Management Development and Productivity Institute (MDPI) Seeks the Support of Lead Buyers to Extend SCORE Training to other parts of...

‘’On 29 September, 2021, the MDPI held a breakfast meeting to mobilise support from Lead Buyers to extend SCORE Training to many more enterprises nationwide’’.

Launched, the good practice video on trade unions’ actions to prevent HIV at workplace

The ILO recently launched a new good practice video highlighting the important roles of trade unions in the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS at the workplace.

SCORE Alumni Network is launched in Ghana

“SCORE Ghana through the leadership of the Management Development and Productivity Institute (MDPI) has launched the SCORE Alumni Network in Ghana”

Trade unions take actions to promote gender-balanced workplace for SMEs

The ILO’s SCORE Programme in Indonesia collaborated with trade union confederations, through a series of gender equality trainings, to assist Indonesian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in creating equal opportunities for women and men at work.

ILO collaborates with two Indonesian State-Owned Companies on HIV self-screening

The ILO collaborates with PT Pertamina (Persero) Tbk and PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk to implement HIV self-screening to scale up HIV prevention at workplaces and contribute to end AIDS by 2030.

Smart working to maintain workers’ mental health for business continuity in time of the pandemic

Smart working is the right option for workers and companies. A strategy at the company level should be prepared to maintain workers’ mental health for improved productivity and sustainable business during the pandemic.

Bolivia

Launch of the campaign "Rethinking Food Heritage with Decent Work: building back better the quinoa and coffee sectors"

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Movimiento de Integración Gastronómico Alimentario de Bolivia (MIGA) join efforts to promote the gastronomic heritage in the quinoa and coffee sectors through a decent work lens.

Blue or pink, boy or girl? How Gender Biases Influence Work Environments

The SCORE Program in Colombia decided to conduct an experiment: we invited over seven-hundred people from different enterprises, unions and public entities to answer, by looking at old baby photographs, whether the baby in the photograph was a girl...