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ILO Publication

Agri-entrepreneurship Ecosystem Assessment Sidama Region Ethiopia

The ILO ProAgro Ethiopia – ‘Promotion of Decent Work in Agribusiness’ project, funded by the BMZ Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation, conducted an agri entrepreneurship ecosystem assessment in the Sidama Region. Sidama is one of...

Integrating the LeMengede Application into Ethiopia’s Migration Preparedness Framework

TVET trainers and key stakeholders across Ethiopia were equipped to integrate the LeMengede mobile app into pre-departure training, strengthening migrant workers' access to multilingual migration information, complaint mechanisms and an SOS feature...

Recognition of Prior Learning

Ethiopia accelerates Recognition of Prior Learning rollout with assessor training in Bishoftu

Ethiopia is rolling out its national Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) system, as 35 assessors completed a four-day training in Bishoftu under the ILO Global Skills Programme, supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. The...

Standardising OSSC Service Delivery through Ethiopian Labour Market Information System E-LMIS Capacity Building in Ethiopia

Frontline staff across three Ethiopian cities got to grips with the digital systems powering the country's One Stop Service Centres, sharpening skills in everything from biometric registration to labour market data reporting and laying the...

Briefing paper

PROSPECTS in Action: Vision, Milestones, and Impact

This briefing paper details the collective action of the PROSPECTS coalition (ILO, UNHCR, UNICEF, IFC and World Bank) supported by the Netherlands to improve the lives of forcibly displaced persons and host communities. It promotes self-reliance by...

Two -page summary

PROSPECTS in Action: Vision, Milestones, and Impact - Summary

This two-page summary details the PROSPECTS Partnership's vision and impact, demonstrating its shift from humanitarian aid to sustainable solutions for forced displacement. It promotes self-reliance and inclusion for forcibly displaced persons and...

Factsheet

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...

Training package

Meaningful youth engagement for decent work: A training package on engaging young people in employment programmes

This training package is designed to help ILO staff and youth employment practitioners enhance meaningful youth engagement in employment programmes, with a particular focus on refugee and forcibly displaced youth.

PROSPECTS Impact

With ILO, Ethiopia’s Jigjiga University transforms into an entrepreneurship hub

The partnership between the ILO and Jigjiga University is driving the institutionalization of the ILO’s globally recognized tools and the creation of a dynamic Business and Technology Incubation Center, fostering entrepreneurship for host and...

Retooling TVET Trainers to Strengthen Skills Training in Hairdressing and Domestic Work

Twelve trainers in hairdressing and domestic work walked away with sharpened technical and instructional skills, directly addressing the instructor shortage holding back five BRMM-supported TVET centres and raising the quality bar for vocational...

News

ILO empowers refugee and host communities in Ethiopia through digital skills training

216 refugee and host community graduates complete digital skills programmes at the Jigjiga Digital Innovation Hub, opening new pathways to decent work and livelihoods in Ethiopia’s Somali Region.

BRMM Programme

UK Commonwealth and Development Office highlights progress of Better Regional Migration Management programme in Kenya

A UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) annual review mission to Kenya assessed progress under the Better Regional Migration Management (BRMM) programme, meeting government institutions, implementing partners, and returnee migrant...

Strengthening Core Skills Delivery

Technical and Vocational Training (TVT) instructors in Ethiopia gain tools to deliver stronger employability skills

TVT instructors have completed a four-day ILO Core Skills Training in Jimma that strengthened their ability to teach essential employability skills, including communication, problem solving, teamwork, digital literacy and green skills. Through...

Financial inclusion

Trust becomes collateral: Inclusive finance empowers refugees and hosts in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia’s Somali region the ILO and Shabelle Bank are dismantling cultural barriers to improve access to finance enabling refugees and host communities to build sustainable livelihoods.

Agricultural digitalization and decent work advancement

ILO launches digital agri-business hub in Hawassa, Sidama Region of Ethiopia

The Sidama Region in Ethiopia has taken a major step toward modernizing its agriculture and expanding decent work opportunities with the launch of the AgriConnect Digital Agri-Business Hub and the opening of the Sidama Agricultural Innovation...

Ethiopia advances skills recognition to unlock more opportunities for workers

Ethiopia is expanding recognition of skills learned outside the classroom, with new assessors helping workers gain formal certification and better job prospects.

PROSPECTS Impact

Turning arts into opportunity: How Youth-to-Youth Fund transformed a refugee dance group

A group of 15 young Eritrean refugees in Addis Ababa turned their passion for performing arts into a sustainable livelihood after targeted grant from the International Labour Organization eliminated their highest recurring cost – renting essential...

ILO PROSPECTS launches learning portal to transform forced displacement response

The ILO PROSPECTS Learning Portal turns years of field experience into practical, interactive resources to help practitioners, policymakers, and partners improve responses to forced displacement worldwide.

PROSPECTS podcast

Talent beyond borders: Why businesses should hire young refugees

Discover how businesses can unlock innovation and resilience by hiring young refugees. In this episode, Ingka Group’s Roman Bojko shares lessons from integrating refugee talent across 26 countries.

Green Skills and Just Transition

ILO empowers technical and vocational training institutions to drive Ethiopia’s green transition

Training participants of the ILO’s Green TVT training are putting their skills into action, transforming their colleges, improving training quality, and creating new income opportunities through sustainable practices. With support from NORAD, the...