All projects: Africa

Food Africa Project: Empowering youth and promoting innovative PPPs through more efficient agro-food value chains in Nigeria

Food Africa Project is an innovate public-private partnership between the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Fund (SDG Fund) , Sahara Group- a member of the SDG Fund Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) , United Nation agencies, world...

Improved Labour Migration Governance to Protect Migrant Workers and Combat Irregular Migration in Ethiopia

The project aims at supporting the efforts of the Government and Civil Societies to address and reduce irregular migration by improving labour migration governance and making regular labour migration more accessible and desirable to potential...

Employment for Youth in Egypt (EYE): Working Together in Qalyoubia and Menoufia

The project will be implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI), and in cooperation with key partners as the Ministry of Investment and International Cooperation, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency,...

Promoting Gender-responsive Workplaces in Egypt

The project responds to the need to reinforce gender equality at company level through a better understanding of the law by management of companies on one side; and to enhance advocacy skills of workers to improve their working conditions on the...

Better Utilization of Skills for Youth through Quality Apprenticeships (BUSY)

Kenya Youth Employment Support through Skills (K-YESS)

Strengthening Labour Inspection in Lesotho

The project seeks to strengthen labour inspection in Lesotho through enhancing its efficacy and efficiency so as to contribute to economic development, social cohesion and good governance.

Addressing the Root causes of Migration in Ethiopia

The project aims at supporting the efforts of the Government of Ethiopia to address and reduce irregular migration in Ethiopia by creating decent livelihood and employment opportunities for potential migrants especially women and youth.

Joint UN Resource Mobilization for the Counter Trafficking and Migration Policy and Practice in Ethiopia

The project aims to contribute to the efforts of the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) to address human trafficking, smuggling and irregular migration, youth unemployment and uphold the rights of migrants.

Child labour Project

Capacity of Egyptian Government, Workers’ and Employers’ Organizations Strengthened to Combat Child Labour

ILO will continue its work in supporting the national constituents in combating child labour with high emphasis on its worst forms.

Upgrading Water and Sanitation Systems Incorporating Skills-Based Training and Employment for Youth in Ebola Affected Slum Communities

The project aims to strengthen resilience and promote economic stabilization and recovery in vulnerable slum communities by providing expanded access to safe drinking water and environmental sanitation and creating employment and business...

Professional integration of young people in Algeria through a stronger civil society

The A’AMAL project encourages collaboration among local actors, more specifically civil society, for the professional integration of young people in Algeria. The initiative is part of the Youth Employment Support Programme (‘PAJE’), co-financed by...

Convening Actors to Develop and Implement Strategies to Reduce Child Labour and Improve Working Conditions in Artisanal and Small-Scale...

Funded by the United States Department of Labor (USDOL), the four-year project will address child labour, decent work deficits and working conditions in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in the Ghana, specifically in Ashanti and Western...

Social Protection Floor Assessment Based National Dialogue, Egypt

ILO undertakes a Social Protection Floor (SPF) assessment which would result in achieving a basic level of social protection for all and a decent and dignified life.

Employment-Intensive Investment

Construction of school buildings following the labour-intensive approach, within the framework of the joint UNICEF/WFP/ILO program in...

Decent Work and Sustainable Development

Improving industrial relations for decent work and sustainable development of the textile and garment industry in Ethiopia

Strengthening human security in the border communities of Turkana II (extended)

The most significant impact of ILO’s contribution to strengthening human security in Turkana is making child labour a visible and feasible problem. Child labour is today visible in terms of it being seen as a problem as opposed to a socio-culturally...

UN Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) Promoting Social Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in...

The UNPRPD project aims at promoting social inclusion of persons with disabilities in Ethiopia by achieving the following two outcomes in partnership with concerned government ministries, Disabled Persons Organizations (DPOs), civil society...

Employment-Intensive Investment

Human Security Initiative in the Most Neglected Communities with the Integration of Efforts by the UN Country Team in Liberia

Child labour: South-South Cooperation Brazil

South-South Cooperation for the promotion of decent work in cotton-producing countries in Africa and Latin America

Support to the Reintegration of Returnees in Ethiopia

The project aims at improving labour migration governance in Ethiopia and assisting returned migrants to secure productive employment and decent work.