All projects: rural employment + rural workers
An ILO-EU Project
Participation, Ownership and Sustainable Progress for Economic Resilience (PROSPER)
Development Cooperation Project
Setting Adequate Wages a focus on Agriculture (SAW-A)
EU - ILO Development Cooperation Project
Skills Development for Increased Employability Programme
The five-year Skills Development for Increased Employability Programme (SDEP), launched in 2023, strengthens the relevance, quality and governance of the TEVET system, and encourages greater participation of the private sector in skills development...
Womens' empowerment
Empowered Women Prosperous Nepal (UNJP)
The Joint EU and UN programme, Empowered Women, Prosperous Nepal will contribute to the full realization of human rights and agency of Nepalese women, girls and people of diverse genders.
Development Cooperation Project
Inclusive and productive employment in the Republic of Moldova
The project includes a complementary package of interventions on creation of more and better jobs, improved employability of people through Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and adult learning, and formalization of employment.
Project overview
Rural Employment Promotion in Lao People's Democratic Republic
The project aims to support the Government of Lao People's Democratic Republic as well as the employer’s and worker’s organizations in implementing the National Rural Employment Strategy which provides a comprehensive national framework for the...
Project on Moroccan women migrant seasonal workers
WAFIRA: Women as financially independent rural actors
This 3-year joint project with the Spanish Secretary of State for Migration is executed in the framework of the Mobility Partnership Facility mechanism, managed by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and financed by the...
Development Cooperation Project
Sparking Disability Inclusive Rural Transformation (SPARK)
ILO is implementing multi-country project on disability inclusion in rural livelihood. SPARK project is integrated in IFAD-funded Nav Tejaswini Yojana, Government of Maharashtra.
Development Cooperation Project
Road for Development (R4D) Phase II – Road for Development Support Program (R4D-SP) Bridging Phase
During the Bridging Phase, R4D-SP will support Government of Timor-Leste's COVID-19 recovery efforts and lay the foundation for the possible transition to the rural roads sector.
Development Cooperation Project
FORTER'ESS: Strengthening the resilience of women's social and solidarity economy organisations (SSEOs) affected by COVID-19
This two-year project provides support to women led SSE organizations in the governorates of Beja, Jendouba and Le Kef. This support focuses on improving workplace protection and working conditions for women entrepreneurs and workers in women led...
Workers' rights in rural sectors
Improving Workers’ Rights in Rural Sectors of Indonesia
The project, funded by the US Department of Labour (USDOL), aims to promote labour laws compliance, occupational safety and health and gender equality in the Indo-Pacific.
Workers' rights in rural sectors
Improving Workers' Rights in Rural Sectors of the Philippines
This ILO project, funded by the US Department of Labor (US DOL), aims to improve the promotion and compliance to labour laws, occupational safety and health, and gender equality in the rural sectors in the Philippines and Indonesia.
Child labour
Achieving reduction of child labour in support of education
The ILO and the Government of Japan through the ILO-Japan Multi-bilateral Programme have partnered to reduce the worst forms of child labour in agricultural communities and support education in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao...
Development Cooperation Project
Supporting Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic through Targeted Employment-Intensive Emergency Public Works for the Rural Poor and...
The project supports recovery of the COVID-19 pandemic by providing direct employment opportunities for the rural poor and vulnerable population through routine road maintenance activities.
Effective COVID-19 response in Moldova: Social dialogue for local job creation through Local Employment Partnerships
The new ILO project offers concrete contribution to COVID-19 response and will assist the tripartite constituents in adopting an inclusive, gender-responsive recovery strategy and in generating quality jobs for vulnerable workers.
Women’s empowerment through inclusive, sustainable and green business models in the upper basin of the Vjosa river, Albania
The ILO has joined forces with UN Women for an intervention that stimulates sustainable and environmentally friendly job creation in the Upper Basin of the Vjosa River in southern Albania.
EU-STREIT Project in Papua New Guinea
Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade (STREIT) Programme
Youth employment
Activate!Youth in Montenegro
This two-year project will support Montenegro to bring youth under 29 years of age back to the labour market. Such ‘welfare-to-work’ programmes help Montenegro in meeting its commitments under the current and forthcoming Economic Reform Programmes...
Dignità in campo in Italy
The main aim of the project is to prevent new forms of labour exploitation in the agricultural sector and to promote new practices in social economy through pilot actions in two territories in Italy.
Egypt Youth Employment (EYE): Jobs and Private Sector Development in Rural Egypt (Rawabet)
This project is intended to capitalize on ILO’s expertise and experience in the promotion of decent employment in the rural economy and to build on past rural-focused initiatives implemented in Egypt and other countries.