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Emerging Insight: Innovative partnerships to grow an insurance customer base

ILO’s Cooperatives Unit and Social Finance Programme co-organize an elective session at the Rural development academy 2021

ILO’s Cooperatives Unit and Social Finance Programme co-organized an elective on “Sustainable Finance and Cooperatives in Rural Areas” to highlight the role of cooperatives in the rural economy and access to financial services through a range of...

Emerging Insight: Public-private dialogues for sustainable agriculture insurance

ILO hosts first-ever virtual exhibition on sustainable enterprises

In an online event organized with the ITCILO, ENTERPRISES staff engaged with colleagues from their virtual booths, sharing materials, chatting and networking.

Launch of the ILO’s financial inclusion initiative for displaced and host communities in Iraq

Emerging Insight: Sports insurance to foster financial inclusion in Bolivia

Opening address at the “From cash to digital wage payments: a win-win for enterprises and women workers in the Philippines”

By Mr Khalid Hassan, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the “From cash to digital wage payments: a win-win for enterprises and women workers in the Philippines”, 9 March 2021, Manila, Philippines via Zoom

A new phase for the Smallholder and Agri-SME Finance and Investment Network (SAFIN)

International Organization of Employers (IOE) webinar on digital wage payments

Emerging Insight: Short-term savings are just as important as long-term savings

Emerging Insight: The best of 2020

Building effective resilience for human security in Caribbean countries

Challenges like crises, conflicts, natural disasters, poverty, epidemics and economic downturns undermine the prospects for peace, stability, and sustainable development of many people.

Training: Making Finance Work for refugees and host communities

Emerging Insight: Designing the right insurance product can improve women’s lives

The ILO intensifies its efforts to accelerate the transition from cash to digital wage payments

The International Labour Organization (ILO) will work towards the establishment of a Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work to enhance sustainable enterprises, promote respect of workers’ rights and broaden financial inclusion.

Lessons learned from Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) policy development in South Africa

Social Economy

Emerging Insight: Rethinking insurance for MSMEs

ILO COOP 100 Webinar V - SSE momentum: Finance for Inclusion and the Future of Work during Covid-19 pandemic

The webinar focused on the key challenges related to the future of work, how they affect local communities, and what Social and Solidarity Economy Organizations (SSEOs) are doing toward addressing them. Two keynote speakers presented the main...

Emerging Insight: The potential of telemedicine in the inclusive insurance industry

Emerging Insight: Innovating to provide inclusive insurance during the pandemic