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International Women's Day 2021

SCORE Training adapts to continue promoting gender equality despite COVID-19

While the priority in 2020 was health and safety, the SCORE Programme adopted several strategies to meet gender equality objectives. On this International Women's Day, let's look back at SCORE Programme activities that helped ensure progress on this...

The ILO empowers implementing partner in Ghana to improve training delivery and quality assurance

’SCORE Ghana Project supports Federation of Professional Associations in Ghana (FEPTAG) to establish a quality assurance system to regulate and provide training that meets the standards of the ILO SCORE Project.

ILO Brasilia prepares to launch SCORE Programme in Brazil

The SCORE programme will be launched in Brazil for three years to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and reverse damages caused by poor working conditions in the Brazilian apparel sector.

SCORE Academy China celebrates first year anniversary

SCORE Academy has actively promoted SCORE Training in China since its launch in October 2019. We take this opportunity to look back at the main achievements and the work that the SCORE Academy has carried out in 2020.

Strengthening gender equality initiatives through SCORE Gender Equality Model

A construction company in Colombia continues to strengthen its gender equality initiatives with the support of SCORE’s Gender Equality Model (MIG SCORE) and EQUILATERA

Panamanian firms advance towards gender equality

In the case of Panama, the decrease in the economic gender gap would have a considerable impact in the country´s economy, according to research by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Reaching out the first 90 goal by introducing the ILO-WHO Joint Guideline on HIV Self-Testing at Workplace

The ILO raise the national companies’ awareness about the HIV self-testing initiative as part of community-based screening, aimed to increase the number of people who know their HIV status and seek treatment. The event marks the final ILO webinars...

SCORE Training

Stay safe and resilient: ILO SCORE Programme expands its OSH and Business Continuity training under the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world of work. Production disruptions have caused demand for many goods and services to plummet and forced enterprises around the world to suspend or scale down operations, with enormous impacts for workers.

ILO-Apindo team up to promote innovative campaign on HIV prevention at workplace

Four winning video blogs (vlogs) on non-discriminatory policy and HIV prevention at workplace were announced by the ILO and the Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) to inspire more companies combating stigma and discrimination against HIV with...

Three companies share good practices for employees and communities to combat discrimination against HIV

The ILO documents three best practices at the enterprise level to inspire more companies to join forces in developing non-discriminatory workplaces and communities. It is part of the ILO support to the implementation of national regulation.

Partner Africa signs public-private partnership with ILO to expand SCORE Training in supply chains throughout Africa

In October 2020, the International Labour Organization (ILO) entered a public-private partnership (PPP) with Partner Africa to promote and deliver SCORE Training to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa that participate in global supply...

Our impact, Their voices

ILO SCORE Training improves productivity and workspace that benefits all

As the COVID-19 pandemic was raging around the world, the plans of many exporters had to change This case study shows how one company participated in SCORE Training and worked to implement improvements that resulted in significant productivity gains...

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Thriving in the digital economy: opportunities for EBMOs

To remain strong, independent and effective representatives of their members, Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) should strive to be role models for members and reflect their members’ best business practices.

Creating a workplace culture of trust with effective communications amid the pandemic

Workplace culture and trust are important during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ILO’s SCORE programme showed that effective communication and transparency are key to overcome employment obstacles in this challenging time.

ILO Supports Business Resilience in Ghana amidst Covid-19 Pandemic

The ILO SCORE programme is supporting businesses in Ghana to acquire skills to support resilience, response and recovery in the midst of the devastating Covid-19 pandemic through its the Business Continuity Planning (BCP) training programme.

WEDay2020: SCORE Training to the benefit of women entrepreneurs

The ILO’s SCORE Programme is dedicated to improving working conditions & productivity in small and medium-sized enterprises and aims for gender equality across all sectors. Whether supporting women entrepreneurs or teaching gender-sensitive...

UTIPEC implements a Gender Equality Policy through SCORE Training

Through ILO's SCORE Training, UTIPEC (Union of the Petroleum and Energy Industry Workers of Colombia) is the first union in the hydrocarbon sector in Colombia to implement a Gender Equality Policy.

Sintracomunicaciones began implementing ILO’s SCORE Training to strengthen worker organization

The National Union of Communications and Related Transportation Industry (Sintracomunicaciones) started the implementation of SCORE Training to strengthen worker's organization

Combating stigma and discrimination against HIV with creative campaigns

The ILO team up with the Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) to empower companies combating stigma and discrimination against HIV with innovative campaign using video blog (vlog).

COVID-19: Promoting HIV prevention at the workplace

Integrating HIV and COVID-19 prevention programmes for safer workplaces

Better protection against HIV and COVID-19 can be done by implementing an integrated programme at the enterprise level. One company shares its good practices in integrating these two programmes with support from the health service.