All projects: Ukraine
Productivity ecosystems for Decent Work in Ukraine
Ukraine’s economic recovery needs businesses that can grow, compete and create decent jobs. Yet labour shortages, skills gaps and low productivity continue to constrain that potential. By helping SMEs improve productivity and working conditions,...
Protecting and preparing Ukraine’s energy workforce for sustainable recovery: Safety for energy workers
A skilled, protected and resilient workforce is critical to rebuilding and modernizing Ukraine’s energy sector and advancing the country’s path towards EU membership. The workers keeping Ukraine’s energy system running are essential to the country’s...
Support to ILO's Development Strategy
This project generates sector-specific evidence, labour market forecasts and skills-needs assessments to support recovery planning, EU-aligned labour market reforms and decent work priorities. It strengthens the capacity of government institutions...
EU-Funded Project
Promoting Inclusive Labour Market Governance Reform in Support of Ukraine’s Reconstruction and EU Accession
Ukraine’s recovery and path towards EU membership create an opportunity to build a fair, inclusive and modern labour market. This requires effective institutions, strong social dialogue and reforms aligned with international labour standards and the...
Response to the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine – Rapid intervention to reskill and upskill women and vulnerable groups to create...
Childcare in Ukraine: A systems approach to building back better
Affordable, quality childcare is essential to an inclusive labour market and sustainable economic recovery. Yet, many families in Ukraine still lack the support they need. The project expands sustainable childcare options and strengthens the care...
Support to job creation in Mykolaiv and Odesa and to Social Dialogue development
Strong local labour markets are essential to creating jobs and rebuilding local economies. Through Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs), the project brought local authorities, employers, workers and other partners together to identify labour market...
ILO support to Ukraine: Prevention of labour exploitation and human trafficking, support to entrepreneurship development and social partners
As the war disrupted jobs and businesses and increased the risks of labour exploitation and human trafficking, the project worked to prevent exploitation and human trafficking, support entrepreneurship and strengthen employers’ and workers’...
Fundamental principles and rights at work throughout the reforms process in Ukraine
The ILO project aims to promote fundamental labour rights as an integral part of the recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine. It will contribute to creating an environment where businesses can be rebuilt and thrive, and workers find decent job...
Enabling the participation of women in the labour market by expanding childcare services
The ILO provides support to the development and pilot-testing of affordable childcare service models, the adoption of care legislation and policies, and the formalisation of the care sector.
Job creation for vulnerable groups in three sectors in Ukraine
This action-oriented research project will lay the foundations of a larger programme which will generate job opportunities for people at risk of socio-economic exclusion in Ukraine. It will focus on three sectors which can generate employment for...
Women’s empowerment through entrepreneurship and better targeted services
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit women disproportionately harder than men. The ILO-UNDP joint initiative aims to stimulate an economic recovery for women in Ukraine, out of the crisis.
Training and grant support for potential entrepreneurs and start-ups in the Sea of Azov region, Ukraine
This intervention will provide training for potential entrepreneurs using the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) methodology and also provide grants. The project will complement the “Inclusive Labour Markets for Job creation in Ukraine” project,...
E-TVET in Ukraine: Training continuity and modernization during COVID-19 and beyond
To support the Ministry of Education in rolling out digital TVET, this action will assist Ukraine in piloting e-Learning in TVET in four different occupations.
Creating a client-friendly working environment in the State Migration Service in Ukraine
The project aims to foster a non-discriminatory governmental refugee status determination procedure and government services to stateless persons based on their HIV/TB/LGBTQI status.
Improving compliance with key International Labour Standards in Ukraine
The project assists the government, the social partners and the judiciary to respect and apply the fundamental principles and rights at work when developing and implementing new labour legislation.
Entrepreneurship training for youth in Ukraine
The ILO project aims to create a more enabling environment for job creation for youth in Ukraine through providing entrepreneurship trainings.
Towards safe, healthy and declared work in Ukraine
Improved national normative framework to protect wages in Ukraine
The overall objective of the project is to protect wages by improving the national normative framework through social dialogue. It is expected that by the end of the intervention, tripartite constituents would have agreed on the measures to address...
Inclusive labour markets for job creation in Ukraine
In view of the complex labour market situation the new ILO program funded by Denmark goes for an integrated approach based on three pillars. The program will modernize the services of the Ukrainian public employment services enabling them to offer...