All projects: Africa

Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus

Promoting decent work for crisis-affected communities in the Sahel

Institutional capacity-building for employment-intensive approaches in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, focusing on conflict prevention and climate resilience.

UN Joint Programme on Child Protection and Social Protection

This Joint Programme (JP) is a collaborative initiative that supports the Government of Kenya in strengthening and expanding inclusive, shock-responsive, and gender-sensitive child and social protection systems. Its overarching goal is to advance...

EU-ILO Partnership

Promoting Safe and Healthy Workplaces in the Southern Mediterranean – Phase II

The EU-ILO initiative "Promoting Safer Workplaces in the Southern Mediterranean" is transforming occupational safety and health (OSH) standards across Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and now Egypt. This collaborative effort ensures safer, healthier, and...

SUSTAIN

Sustainable Trade and Investment in Southern Africa

Child labour

Economic and social empowerment for families

Economic and Social Empowerment for Families through Environmentally Friendly and Gender-Sensitive Income-Generating Activities to Combat the Worst Forms of Child Labour among Girls and Boys

Safety + Health for All

Improving occupational safety and health and access to social protection for workers in the natural rubber value chain in Côte d’Ivoire

The project funded by Eni S.p.A addresses the critical need to improve occupational safety and health and to expand access to social protection for workers in the rubber value chain, particularly informal workers and smallholder farmers.

Child labour

Accelerate the elimination of child labour, improving working conditions and empowering families in jasmine supply chain in Egypt (ACCEL...

Public-private development partnerships for inclusive decent employment and productive livelihoods

Phase 2 of the "Inclusive Growth through Decent Work in the Great Rift Valley" project aims to deepen its impact on socio-economic development across Kenya’s Nakuru, Narok, and Kajiado counties. Building on Public Private Development Partnership...

Community Based Routine Maintenance (CBRM) under the RISE Project

The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania through Tanzania Rural and Urban Roads Agency (TARURA) and Tanzania National Roads Agency (TANROADS) is implementing a “Roads to Inclusion and Socio-economic Opportunities (RISE)” programme which is...

Productivity Ecosystems for Decent Work in Egypt: Improving productivity and strengthening working conditions in key industrial sectors

Domestic Workers

RBSA funded Intervention - Improving the recognition and working conditions of Domestic Workers as Care Workers in Tanzania

This project aims to enhance the recognition and working conditions of domestic workers as care workers in Tanzania.

Support to the formalization of small economic units and workers in the waste management value chain within the Waterberg District.

Support to Free Movement of persons and Migration in West Africa, Phase II (FMM West Africa II)

The project aims to maximize the development potential of free movement of persons and migration in West Africa by supporting the effective implementation of the ECOWAS Free Movement of Persons’ Protocols and the ECOWAS Common Approach on Migration.

Digital Economy

Boosting Decent Jobs and Enhancing Skills for the Youth in Rwanda’s Digital Economy

The project "Boosting Decent Jobs and Enhancing Skills for Youth in Rwanda's Digital Economy" will support Rwanda’s structural transformation and contribute to a just transition towards a digital economy. Financially supported by the Government of...

Project

JobAgri Ghana: Shaping better policies based on innovative data in agri-food sector

Through better evidence and policy dialogue, JobAgri aims to strengthen the ability of agrifood value chains to create decent employment, improve agriculture productivity and contribute to food security.

Y-NEET project

Empowering Youth NEETs in the Southern Mediterranean Region

This regional project aims to improve the situation of young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEETs) by making public policies, practices and services more effective and responsive to their needs across eight countries in the...

Safety + Health for All

Improving Occupational Safety and Health and Access to Social Protection for Workers in the Kenyan Agri-Business Sector

This collaboration between the ILO and Eni S.p.A. aims to enhance Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and expand social health protection for agricultural workers in Kenya, where gaps in coverage disproportionately affect farmers. Focusing on the...

Employment-Intensive Investment

HIMO Routes/DEFIS Project in Madagascar

HIMO is a project resulting from a partnership between the ILO and Madagascar's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, through the DEFIS Program. It aims to strengthen the creation of decent jobs through the implementation of a labor-intensive...

South-South cooperation

Extending social protection coverage to workers in the informal economy in the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Kenya and leveraging...

The project aims to improve the social protection situation for workers in the informal economy in Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Kenya while contributing to the achievement of related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the vision of...

Skills for sustainability

Equipping South Africa’s workforce for a just transition through up-skilling and re-skilling