All projects: Africa

Eliminating the Worst Forms of Child Labour in West Africa and Strengthening Sub-Regional Cooperation through ECOWAS –I

This proposed project seeks to contribute to national and sub-regional initiatives to combat the worst forms of child labour in West Africa.

Mobilization of the Dahshour World Heritage Site for Community Development

The Dahshour World Heritage Site for Community Development is a joint programme that is considered a model for cultural development as it combines cultural heritage aspects, natural heritage dimensions, and community development components.

Engaging Tunisian youth to achieve the MDGs

Since before the revolution, ILO and the MDG project focused on Tunisia’s high unemployment rates, particularly for women and in most disadvantaged areas such as the larger Tunis, Le Kef and Gafsa governorates. Despite suffering from a period of...

Improving institutional capacity to govern labour migration in North and West Africa

In many countries of North and West Africa, labour force growth has outstripped employment growth and has put pressure on the national labour markets' absorptive capacities. Migration movements have been increasing in complexity and are reorienting...

Promoting the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and Social Dialogue in Egypt

The project aims to promote appropriate legal environment and a culture of consultation and dialogue based on the fundamental rights at work embodied in ILO Declaration of 1998, and in particular freedom of association and the right to collective...

Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica

The Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica is a technical cooperation programme of the ILO, under DFID funding. From its office in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), CoopAfrica covers 9 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. CoopAfrica assists...

Project for a Rational and Sustainable Development of the Fishing Sector

National Youth Funds in Africa

UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery (JPLG)

The overall objective of the programme is that local governance contributes to peace and equitable priority service delivery.

The Law-Growth Nexus: A Mapping of Labour Law and Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) Development

The overall objective of this project is to promote better business environments for workers and employers in MSEs. This will be achieved through realising the intermediate objective of developing good practice guidelines for labour and labour...

The Labour Based Component of the Poverty Reduction Through Decent Employment Creation in Liberia (PREDEC)

The project was jointly formulated by the ILO and the Government of Liberia with the objecive to boost job creation and assist the Government for recovery and effective functioning of public institutions, including the Ministry of Labor and the...

Promoting equal employment opportunities at the workplace in Morocco

Through the Middle East Partnership Initiative, this pilot program was aimed at promoting employment equality at the workplace in Morocco based on a bottom-up approach.

Technical assistance to better regulate migratory flows from Senegal, Mauritania and Mali to Spain

The ILO has recently started the implementation of a project covering Senegal, Mauritania and Mali also designed to support efforts to maximise social and economic benefits of migration for the region of the Sahel, for Spain, and for migrant...