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Maritime Labour Convention

Kenya ratifies the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

Kenya is the 64th ILO member State and the tenth African State – after Liberia, Gabon, Benin, Togo, Morocco, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Congo – to have ratified the MLC, 2006.

Leaving No One Behind: Reaching Key Populations through workplace action on HIV and AIDS

This literature review was commissioned to contribute to the body of knowledge on reaching key populations with HIV services. It sought to demonstrate how the workplace and/or the workforce could be creatively used to increase access to HIV services...

President Uhuru Kenyatta meets Aeneas Chuma, ILO Regional Director for Africa

H.E. President Uhuru Kenyata and Aeneas Chapinga Chuma, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa, exchanged views and ideas at the National State House in Nairobi, Kenya.

Aeneas Chuma, ILO Head for Africa on official visit to Kenya and Tanzania

The Regional Director for Africa, Aeneas Chapinga Chuma, paid a working visiting from 22 – 28 June 2014 to two East-African countries to strenghten a win-win cooperation.

Kenya elected Vice-President of the International Labour Conference

Mrs Jacqueline Mugo, Executive Director of the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE), will be acting as one of the Vice-Presidents during the 103rd annual International Labour Conference.

Interview

Francis Atwoli: “We need to create more sustainable jobs for youth in Africa”

Africa needs more sustainable jobs for youth who represent the majority of African population, says Francis Atwoli, the newly elected president of African Trade Unions Unity (OATUU) and vice president of the global International Trade Union...

Findings of the follow-up study on former child labourers trained on entrepreneurship and apprenticeship - The cases of Kisumu and Nairobi...

This study sought to find out if there was any added advantage that entrepreneurship skills training had on the trainees and it compares post training progression between trainees who had received entrepreneurship training to those who in addition...

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility’s Youth-to-Youth Fund in East Africa: Public-Private Partnership

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) enables African youth to turn their ideas into business opportunities aimed at increasing their income and the creation of decent work for themselves and others. It is a public-private partnership (PPP)...

Case Brief #6:ILRI

In the last few years droughts have been increasingly severe in Kenya. During 2011 alone, livestock pastoralists lost on average a third of their animals due to severe drought. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has piloted a new...

Simplified popular version of Labour Laws for MSME's

In 2002, the 90th Session of The International Labour Conference concluded that growth of the informal economy could be traced to inappropriate, ineffective policies coupled with the lack of conducive legal and institutional frameworks and the lack...

Strengthening Human Security in the border communities of Turkana, Kenya

The project launched in 2012 proposed activities aim to improve human security in a context of UN inter-agency coordination including UNTFHS, UNDP, FAO, WHO, IOM, UNICEF, and ILO-IPEC.

Kenya: Making quality employment the driver of development - Executive summary and policy recommendations

Economic growth in Kenya has improved in recent years but has been relatively unstable due in part to a narrow growth base and weak investment patterns, which has adversely affected formal job creation and hampered improvements in living standards...

Studies on Growth with Equity

Kenya: Making quality employment the driver of development

The report analyses how the growing disconnect between growth and job creation in Kenya is having detrimental consequences on living standards and working conditions, especially for youth. It discusses how a comprehensive approach that integrates...

ILO report calls for job-centred growth policies in Kenya

Kenya needs to adopt a coherent national employment strategy to achieve a more equitable economic growth, says the ILO.

Consolidating policy agenda to eliminate child labour within the DWCP for Kenya: Education and youth employment (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project KEN/09/50/USA - Evaluation consultants: Lotta Nycander and Andrew Riechi

Situation analysis on conducive learning environment for children withdrawn and prevented from child labour - A case of Kilifi District in...

Situation analysis on conducive learning environment for children withdrawn and prevented from child labour - A case of Kitui District in...

Situation analysis on conducive learning environment for children withdrawn and prevented from child labour - A case of Busia District in...

Integrated area-based approach as a strategy for laying foundations for child labour-free zones - A case of Busia, Kilifi and Kitui...

VMK v. Catholic University

The Claimant alleged that her employer denied her employment on a permanent basis and equal remuneration based on her HIV status.