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Ensuring integration of occupational safety and health within the GFC Implementation Programmes
Worker in full PPE gear in a palm tree plantation

Safety + Health for All

Ensuring integration of occupational safety and health within the GFC Implementation Programmes

The project strengthens occupational safety and health in the sound management of chemicals and waste, from global engagement in the Global Framework on Chemicals to practical action in Pakistan and Nepal.

Resilient plantations: Advancing workers’ safety, health, and livelihood recovery
two women workers looking at the camera in a tea plantation

Project

Resilient plantations: Advancing workers’ safety, health, and livelihood recovery

The project, funded by the Government of Japan, aims to improve occupational safety and health of plantation workers, while restoring livelihoods and building resilience in flood-affected plantation communities.

Generating Resilient Opportunities for Work (GROW)

Generating Resilient Opportunities for Work (GROW)

Promoting and building social protection in South Asia: Sri Lanka component

Promoting and building social protection in South Asia: Sri Lanka component

Co-Creating Network for Protecting the Human Dignity of Migrant Workers in South-East Asia
Metal processing is a typical occupation for migrant workers in Japan.

Co-Creating Network for Protecting the Human Dignity of Migrant Workers in South-East Asia

The project aims to strengthen the protection of migrant workers and uphold their human dignity as they move to Japan by fostering regional cooperation among stakeholders in Asia. It supports dialogue, knowledge sharing, mutual learning and...

Social Dialogue for Peace and Crisis Prevention in Sri Lanka

Social Dialogue for Peace and Crisis Prevention in Sri Lanka

Creating decent work opportunities for domestic and community-based care workers through transformative actions for gender equality in Sri...

Creating decent work opportunities for domestic and community-based care workers through transformative actions for gender equality in Sri...

Supporting migrant returnees and communities in vulnerable situations to uplift their livelihoods, enhance their skills and promote safe...

Uplift project

Supporting migrant returnees and communities in vulnerable situations to uplift their livelihoods, enhance their skills and promote safe...

Promoting Advancement of Vulnerable Persons and Enterprises (PAVE) Project

Promoting Advancement of Vulnerable Persons and Enterprises (PAVE) Project

The PAVE project builds on the ILO’s project Local Empowerment through Economic Development (LEED+) Project, which was supported by the Government of Norway and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The LEED+ project successfully...

Development of social insurance-based unemployment insurance scheme in Sri Lanka

Development of social insurance-based unemployment insurance scheme in Sri Lanka

This project aims to providing assistance through effective and efficient unemployment protection mechanisms including unemployment insurance through effective tripartite social dialogue

Healthy socio-economic recovery of apparel sector Micro and Small Enterprises in severely COVID-19 impacted Gampaha District of Sri Lanka

Healthy socio-economic recovery of apparel sector Micro and Small Enterprises in severely COVID-19 impacted Gampaha District of Sri Lanka

This project aims at contributing towards the healthy socio-economic recovery of apparel sector Micro and Small Enterprises. It is implemented in Gampaha district that has been hardest hit by the pandemic both in terms of the health crisis and...

Healthy Socio-economic Recovery of Informal Sector Micro and Small Enterprises in Severely COVID-19 Impacted Districts of Sri Lanka

Informal sector

Healthy Socio-economic Recovery of Informal Sector Micro and Small Enterprises in Severely COVID-19 Impacted Districts of Sri Lanka

South Asia Leadership in Entrepreneurship (SALE – Sri Lanka)

South Asia Leadership in Entrepreneurship (SALE – Sri Lanka)

This sub-regional project promotes entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka and Nepal as a desirable career option for youth, with the support of the US Department of State.

Supporting the Socio-economic Reintegration of Sri Lankan Migrant Workers Repatriated due to the COVID-19 Outbreak (IOM-ILO collaboration)

Supporting the Socio-economic Reintegration of Sri Lankan Migrant Workers Repatriated due to the COVID-19 Outbreak (IOM-ILO collaboration)

This project aims at contributing towards sustainable reintegration of Sri Lankan migrant workers. The project has been designed with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in alignment with the National COVID-19 Response Plan for...

Promoting Decent Work through Good Governance, Protection and Empowerment of Migrant Workers

Migrant workers

Promoting Decent Work through Good Governance, Protection and Empowerment of Migrant Workers

Supported by the Government of Switzerland, this programme aims at ensuring an effective implementation of the Sri Lanka National Labour Migration Policy- Phase IV while promoting decent work through good governance, protection and empowerment of...

Safety + Health for All Plantation Workers in South Asia
Indian tea picker smiling at the camera

Development cooperation project

Safety + Health for All Plantation Workers in South Asia

Safety + Health for All Plantation Workers in South Asia: Sri Lanka Component
worker processsing brown coconuts

Project

Safety + Health for All Plantation Workers in South Asia: Sri Lanka Component

The ILO/Japan project on Safety + Health for All Plantation Workers in South Asia was implemented in the framework of the ILO’s Flagship programme “Safety + Health for All”. The project contributed towards improving the safety and health of workers...

Improving Synergies between Social Protection and Public Finance Management

Social protection

Improving Synergies between Social Protection and Public Finance Management

This project aims to support the Government of Sri Lanka in extending social protection coverage to workers, both men and women, in the tourism sector.

Skilling Sri Lankan Migrant Workers affected by COVID-19 for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

Skilling Sri Lankan Migrant Workers affected by COVID-19 for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

This project aims to increase capacity of the ILO constituents to identify current skills mismatches and anticipate future skills needs; to design and deliver innovative, flexible and inclusive learning options encompassing work-based learning and...

Governance of Labour Migration in South and South-East Asia (GOALS)

Project

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.