All resources: Ethiopia

Advocacy event in Addis Ababa showcases Africa’s commitment to protecting vulnerable children

New course developed by ILO Vision Zero Fund initiative

Commuting safety matters: Collective action for a safe commute

The new ILO Country Director for the Horn presents credentials

Mr. Khumbula Ndaba, the new ILO Country Director for Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan and Special Representative to the African Union (AU) and Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), today presented his credentials to H.E. Melaku...

PROSPECTS Partnership

ILO trains social health protection actors in Ethiopia

Social Health Protection training equips Ethiopian social health protection actors with the knowledge and experience to strengthen health financing and social health protection systems.

Workers' Rights and Care Policies

Project concludes highlighting progress in promoting care policies for gender equality, workers' rights in Ethiopia

ILO Project Concludes with Workshop Highlighting the Benefits of Promoting Workers' Rights and Care policies for Gender Equality in Ethiopia’s Garment Sector. The workshop reviewed the project's successes and lessons learned, aiming to ensure...

Empowering Ethiopian Migrant Workers

Ethiopia Strengthens Skills Framework for Migrant Workers with Harmonised Standards and Curricula

Ethiopia held a workshop to improve training standards for migrant workers in security, caregiving, hairdressing, and welding. This training will make the migrant workers more employable both at home and abroad. The new standards include...

Promoting Safe and Empowering Migration

Progress in Labour Migration Governance: Insights from Kenya and Ethiopia

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) team visited Kenya and Ethiopia to assess the BRMM programmes activities. The BRMM Programme helps migrants with skills training, business startup, and financial resources. They met with...

South-south learning experience on minimum wage

Discussion heightened towards setting minimum wage in Ethiopia

South-south learning experience on minimum wage in Vietnam shared among stakeholders in Ethiopia.

Paralegals and workers rights

Free legal aid service protects factory workers’ rights in Hawassa, Ethiopia

“If it wasn’t for the centre, we would just go home losing our jobs as we do not have the awareness about our rights.”

Maternity Benefits

Workplace Daycare centers ensure mothers enter the workforce and continue working

The daycare centers have created a conducive working environment with, safe, stimulating, and child-friendly facilities that accommodate the needs of working mothers with infant children and toddlers in the textile and garment factories.

New Country Office Director in Addis shares his vision

Review of national policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks and practice in Ethiopia

A baseline study for Ethiopia in the area of relevant policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks and current practices in terms of implementation and in relation to the access of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons to the labour...

Press Release

Business Plan Competition Empowers Refugee, Host Communities in Ethiopia's Somali Region

AU/ILO/IOM Joint Labour Migration Programme

Urgent need to enhance labour migration governance in Tigray, Ethiopia

Research Brief

Promoting Care at Work in Ethiopia

This Research Brief, Promoting Care at Work in Ethiopia explores the availability and adequacy of care policies in the Ethiopia's garment sector. 

Enhancing Social Protection for Migrant Workers: Challenges and Strategies in the East and Horn of Africa

Training Manual

Care at Work in Ethiopia's Garment Sector

Care at Work in Ethiopia’s Garment Sector: A Training Manual for Advancing the Rights of Workers with Family Responsibilities for trainers who are involved in awareness raising, capacity building and advocacy for workplace care policy packages,...

Better Regional Migration Management

ILO virtual workshop evaluates skills mapping for equitable labour migration

Africa

Stakeholders discussed on skills partnerships for demand-driven labour migration

This webinar hosted by the ILO in collaboration with the African Union Commission and African Union Development Agency, AUDA-NEPAD, discussed skills partnerships for labour migration.

Interview with ILO expert

Access to social protection for agricultural workers in Lebanon

In this video, we interview Lea Bou Khater, Social Protection Technical Officer at ILO, to discuss the reasons and impact excluding agricultural workers from the Labour Law, along with the challenges and barriers they face in accessing social...