All projects: Pakistan
Just transition
Advancing Decent Work and Just Transitions in Pakistan through Health Sector Skills Development and Social Protection
The project aims to advance decent work and social protection in Pakistan by strengthening the health and care workforce, with a focus on skills development, improved working conditions, formal employment and expanded social protection. Implemented...
Informal economy
W2W: WASTE TO WORTH – Transforming Informal Waste Work into Decent Livelihoods
The project aims to enhance PET recycling in Islamabad while improving the working conditions, livelihoods, and social inclusion of informal waste workers, contributing to environmentally sustainable and socially responsible plastic waste management.
Labour rights
Supporting Human Rights Due Diligence and Labour Rights Implementation in Pakistan
The project supports Pakistan in strengthening labour rights, responsible business conduct and human rights due diligence by enhancing legal and institutional frameworks. It also promotes compliance with international labour standards and supports...
Just transition through skills for employment
Just Transitions for Men, Women and Youth through Skills Training and Jobs Creation in Sustainable Construction and Eco-Tourism in Flood...
The project aims to advance a just transition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s flood-affected districts by promoting resilient livelihoods for women and youth through industry-relevant skills training and enterprise development in sustainable construction...
Labour Migration
Advancing Fair and Safe Labour Migration
The project aims to make labour migration safer and fairer for Pakistanis by improving recruitment practices, building institutional capacity and supporting workers — particularly women — with information, skills and protection across the migration...
SENSREC-DW
Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling and Decent Work in Pakistan
The project jointly implemented by the ILO and IMO aims to strengthen national capacities for safe, rights-based, and environmentally responsible ship recycling.
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ILO-OECD-WHO Working for Health (W4H) Programme
The Working for Health (W4H) Programme in Pakistan supports efforts to strengthen the health workforce by promoting decent work, safe working environments, and quality employment opportunities for health workers. It works with government...
Sound chemical management
Reducing the use and release of Chemicals of Concern (COCs), including Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Textile Sector - ESCM
With support from UNEP, the project focuses on reducing the occupational safety and health (OSH) deficits caused by the exposure of hazardous chemicals at work.
Forced labour
From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labour (The Bridge Project II)
The Bridge Project funded by United States Department of Labour (USDOL) aims to combat forced labour globally. It seeks to raise awareness and ratifications of the ILO Protocol 29, improve national policies, conduct research, strengthen worker and...
Informality
RISE for Impact: Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in the Cotton Supply Chain – A New Phase, A New Vision (PAKISTAN)
The project funded by INDITEX aim to scale up the community model developed under the first phase of the project, in order to foster a partnership approach among the actors for enhanced respect for FPRW in cotton growing communities and a...
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RISE for Impact: Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in the Cotton Supply Chain – A New Phase, A New Vision
The RISE for Impact Project aims to enhance respect for fundamental principles and rights at work for a sustainable cotton supply chain in India, Pakistan and Uzbekistan.
The Bridge Project – Phase II
From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labour, Phase II (Bridge II)
The Bridge Project’s phase II aims to improve global, regional, and country-level capacity to eliminate forced labour, building on the accomplishments and lessons learned from the first phase.
Informal economy
Promoting rights and social inclusion through organization and formalization (PRS) – Phase 2: Pakistan Component
The project contributes to the reduction of decent work deficits and gender inequalities in the informal economy and promote the transition to the formal economy in Nepal, India and Pakistan. This page has information for the Pakistan component of...
Building Resilience for the Future of Work and the Post COVID-19: Promoting Rights and Social Inclusion through Organization and...
The project aims to contribute to reducing the decent work deficits and gender inequality in the informal economy in South Asia by enhancing the capacity of social partners to implement measures to promote formalization and gender equality. It also...
Trade for Decent Work Project - Pakistan
The project aims at improving the application of the ILO Conventions on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work under the framework of EU special incentive arrangement for Sustainable Development and Good Governance (GSP+)
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Governance of Labour Migration in South and South-East Asia (GOALS)
GOALS project is aimed at ensuring labour migration is safe, orderly and regular for all women and men from Colombo Process Member States through strengthened collaboration and effective migration governance.
Governance of Labour Migration in South and South-East Asia (GOALS)
The Project is conceived in response to various facets of labour migration, fair and ethical recruitment and sustainable reintegration, gaps and challenges relating to safe, orderly and regular labour migration and improved skills recognition, in...
Asia Regional Child Labour Programme (ARC)
The Asia Regional Child Labour Programme (ARC) aims to reduce vulnerability to child labour and enhance protection of children from exploitation in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan to contribute to the eradication of child...
The Asia Regional Child Labour (ARC) Project
Funded by Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, (UK), the ARCL Programme aims at assisting the ILO constituents and other stakeholders in Pakistan to eliminate child labour in particular the worst forms of child labour, which in turn...
Decent work
Promotion of Decent Work Opportunities for the Economic Empowerment of Vulnerable Segments of Society
Decent Work is a measure to reduce poverty and inequalities in the society. This project proposed three distinct sets of interventions to promote decent work opportunities in Pakistan for vulnerable groups including Child and Bonded Labourers in...