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Country studies

Impacts of heat stress on jobs and productivity in Ethiopia

This study examines the current and projected impacts of heat stress on employment, labour productivity and economic activity in Ethiopia. It provides sector-specific estimates of productivity losses and policy recommendations to protect workers,...

Promoting care at work

Workplace childcare helps working mothers stay focused and enterprises retain workers in Ethiopia

At Hilina Enriched Foods PLC, an on-site daycare centre is helping working mothers balance care responsibilities with their jobs. The company says absenteeism and staff turnover among mothers using the centre have fallen, while trained care workers...

PROSPECTS Impact

ILO strengthens local skills systems for refugees and host communities in Ethiopia

Support to Dabat TVET College is improving access to market-relevant skills training for refugees and host communities in northern Ethiopia, while strengthening local capacity to deliver training over the longer term.

Heat stress

New ILO studies reveal growing impact of heat stress on jobs and productivity in six countries

New country studies provide from Ethiopia, Ghana, Lebanon, the Maldives, Senegal and Sri Lanka confirm the serious and durable impact of heat stress on workers, enterprises, economies and societies.

Green skills for just transitions

ILO training helps green skills take root in Southern Ethiopia’s TVT and higher education institutions

Through the ILO Global Skills Programme in Ethiopia, TVT trainers, university instructors and skills experts are turning green skills training into practical plans for greener curricula, campuses and learning systems that can better prepare people...

Recognition of Prior Learning

ILO-backed skills recognition opens new career pathways for workers in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Recognition of Prior Learning is helping experienced workers at Kobel Industries in Bahir Dar gain formal certification, advance in their careers and improve their incomes, demonstrating how stronger collaboration between skills institutions,...

Green skills for decent careers

From classrooms to careers: ILO training helps Technical and Vocational Training institutions prepare learners for a greener future

The ILO is helping Technical and Vocational Training (TVT) institutions turn green skills into practical learning that can better prepare trainees for emerging jobs, changing workplaces and more sustainable careers.

Factsheet (September 2026)

PROSPECTS Partnership Ethiopia: Strengthening rights, inclusion, and dignified opportunities

This factsheet details the PROSPECTS Partnership's support for Ethiopia's progressive policies. It focuses on integrating over one million refugees into national systems, enhancing their rights, and promoting dignified economic and social...

Green entrepreneurship

Women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia turn green business learning into action

From poultry waste with potential for biogas to discarded plastics that could become new products, women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia’s Amhara region left an ILO-supported training with practical ideas to make their businesses greener, more resilient...

News

ILO launches new phase of business plan competition for refugees and host communities in Ethiopia

The initiative will provide 3,000 aspiring and existing entrepreneurs from refugee and host communities with training, business development services and opportunities to access finance.

Pre-Doha Dialogue on Labour Migration

African tripartite partners agree on a common labour migration approach

African governments, employers and workers have set out shared priorities on fair recruitment, skills, social protection and migrant worker protection ahead of the Second AU-GCC+ Labour Migration Dialogue.

Labour Attachés Build a Common Front for Migrant Worker Protection

Strengthening labour attachés’ and consular officials’ capacity to protect migrant workers, improve access to remedies and enhance coordination across East Africa and GCC migration corridors.

ILO-UNHCR partnership

ILO and UNHCR strengthen partnership to advance decent work for refugees and host communities in Ethiopia

ILO and UNHCR have strengthened their partnership in Ethiopia to expand access to decent work, skills and sustainable livelihoods for refugees and host communities.

Global factsheet (September 2026)

ILO PROSPECTS: Results at a glance

This “Results at a Glance” factsheet presents key results from the PROSPECTS Partnership, highlighting its reach, achievements and contribution to longer-term, development-centred solutions for forcibly displaced persons and host communities. It...

Inclusive workplaces

ILO advances leadership and disability inclusion in Ethiopia’s textile, garment and leather sector

ILO training will help strengthen leadership skills and disability inclusion in Ethiopia’s textile, garment and leather enterprises, reaching more than 650 managers and supervisors as well as workers, including workers with disabilities.

Decent work in coffee

ILO takes decent work push across Ethiopia’s coffee heartlands

The ILO is expanding its decent work push across Ethiopia’s coffee heartlands, equipping stakeholders in Sidama and South Ethiopia with practical knowledge on labour law, working conditions, wages, productivity and social dialogue. Following...

News

Ethiopia launches Employment Impact Assessment to strengthen job outcomes of public infrastructure investment

The initiative will show how public infrastructure spending can generate more and better jobs and promote more inclusive labour market outcomes.

Kenya

Private employment agencies in EHoA establish a Regional confederation to advance fair recruitment

The establishment of a regional confederation of private employment agencies from six East and Horn of Africa countries to promote fair recruitment, strengthen cooperation and enhance migrant worker protection.

Labour migration and free movement

Beyond the headlines: ILO and IGAD strengthen media professionals’ skills to report on regional integration, free movement of persons and...

Journalists across the IGAD region have strengthened their skills to report on labour migration, free movement and regional integration with greater accuracy, evidence and a stronger focus on migrant workers’ rights and dignity.

Strengthening Africa's skills systems

From Vision to Action: ILO support advances Africa’s Continental TVET Strategy

The ILO is helping African countries turn the Continental TVET Strategy 2025–2034 into practical reforms that strengthen skills systems, connect training with labour market needs and expand pathways to decent work. At the Addis Ababa conference on...