All resources: Ghana

Ten Year Action Plan on the Eradication of Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery In Africa (2020-2030): Agenda...

The Action Plan seeks to contribute to and support the acceleration of progress towards the achievement of the Agenda 2063 – SDG 8.7 target. This involves ending child labour by 2025 and forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery by 2030....

National Green Jobs Strategy, Ghana

The National Green Jobs Strategy has been developed with the intention to create platforms, develop capacities and institute measures that would organise and harmonise on-going green interventions through effective coordination. The strategy adopts...

International Women's Day 2021

SCORE Training adapts to continue promoting gender equality despite COVID-19

While the priority in 2020 was health and safety, the SCORE Programme adopted several strategies to meet gender equality objectives. On this International Women's Day, let's look back at SCORE Programme activities that helped ensure progress on this...

The ILO empowers implementing partner in Ghana to improve training delivery and quality assurance

’SCORE Ghana Project supports Federation of Professional Associations in Ghana (FEPTAG) to establish a quality assurance system to regulate and provide training that meets the standards of the ILO SCORE Project.

ILO Voices | Agriculture

5 ways governments can support agriculture insurance

Agriculture provides jobs to 1.3 billion people, which is close to 40 per cent of global employment, most of them working poor. Agricultural insurance can play an important role in securing farmers’ livelihoods and boosting the efficiency of the...

Financial education for potential migrants and returnees in Kenya – Trainee's booklet

This booklet, developed in the context of the Better Regional Migration Management project funded by the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, targets potential migrants and returnees in Kenya who want to improve their money...

ILO Working paper 22

Home-based work and homework in Ghana: An exploration

This research report explores the nature and character of home-based work and the more narrow concept of homework in Ghana.

SCORE Training

Stay safe and resilient: ILO SCORE Programme expands its OSH and Business Continuity training under the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world of work. Production disruptions have caused demand for many goods and services to plummet and forced enterprises around the world to suspend or scale down operations, with enormous impacts for workers.

SCORE Training - Promoting the capacity of suppliers in global supply chains

ILO Supports Business Resilience in Ghana amidst Covid-19 Pandemic

The ILO SCORE programme is supporting businesses in Ghana to acquire skills to support resilience, response and recovery in the midst of the devastating Covid-19 pandemic through its the Business Continuity Planning (BCP) training programme.

Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) explores, with ILO support, the cost and causes of rising industrial disputes in Ghana.

Considering that the rising level of industrial disputes could negatively impact the cost of production and productivity of enterprises and might be aggravated by tensions within enterprises resulting from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, GEA,...

Support to mitigate the impact of COVID19 on businesses and workers in the tourism and hospitality sector in Ghana

The ILO organized capacity building workshops for members of the Ghana Tourism Federation (GHATOF) to help mitigating the impacts of the COVID19 pandemic on the Ghanaian tourism and hospitality sector. At the end of training, participants were...

Ghana Employers' Association (GEA) and the ILO collaborate to foster transition to formality in the country

GEA with the support of ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACTEMP) conducted a needs assessment survey and identified areas of possible support amid the COVID-19 outbreak for transition to the formal economy

Financial education for potential migrants and returnees in Ghana – Trainee's booklet

This booklet targets primarily (potential) migrants and returnees in Ghana who wish to improve their money management skills. It introduces basic knowledge and tools related to earning, spending, budgeting and using financial services such as...

Ghana: Sector Skills Strategy for Agriculture Sector

Sector Skills Strategy

Ghana: Construction Sector

Sector Skills Strategy

Ghana: Tourism and Hospitality Sector

Study to assess the inclusion of youth with disabilities in TVET and among selected companies in the Ghanaian Tourism and Hospitality Sector

Women migrant workers’ labour market situation in West Africa

This report provides an overview of the situation of women migrant workers in West Africa based on a review of laws, regulations, policies and exisiting data, with a special focus on Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria. It includes data on women...

ILO trains Ghanaian businesses on business digitization and e-commerce

In an attempt to circumvent the odds of COVID-19 pandemic, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) Ghana Project educates SMEs on business digitalization and e-commerce. This initiative...