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Access to decent work for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons

The course aims to strengthen the capacities of policy-makers and practitioners in adopting measures to facilitate the access of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons to the labour market, and in promoting inclusive employment strategies and...

Course: Making financial inclusion work for refugees and host communities

This training programme helps financial service providers to diversify their product portfolio through serving refugees and host communities, in a strategic and cost-effective manner.

Youth at Heart Virtual Forum 2020: ILO's session on decent jobs for youth

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up the Youth at Heart virtual forum to address the issues affecting youth around the world. This session will feature an interactive conversation with young people about solutions, including youth-led,...

Virtual Round-table: Boosting Decent Jobs and Enhancing Skills for Youth in Africa’s Digital Economy

The ILO, the ITU and the AU are organizing a virtual roundtable featuring multi-stakeholder dialogues to build sustainable partnerships and explore funding mechanisms.

World Refugee Day: Socio-economic inclusion and self-reliance of refugees and host communities, key to Kenya’s development

On June 20, Kenya, Africa’s fifth largest refugee hosting country will join the rest of world in marking World Refugee Day. This is a time to honour the resilience of close to half a million refugees who have fled their homes due to war, violence...

World Refugee Day: Everyone Counts

In light of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the UNHCR calls for global solidarity from the entire international community between and towards each other to protect in this time of need.

Market-based livelihoods interventions for refugees and host communities

This training course supports practitioners working with refugee communities in the design of livelihood interventions based on a solid understanding of market trends and demand. It applies the "Making markets work for the poor" (M4P) approach and...

Kenya-Zimbabwe: Green jobs for the young marginalized

The ILO’s Youth Employment Support (YES) Jobs for the Unemployed and Marginalized young People (JUMP) project focused, among other topics, on green jobs and green entrepreneurship promotion.

Teaching and the teaching profession in a digital world: COVID-19 and beyond

All Hands in Kenya: Advancing Labour Standards Through Cooperative Action

All Hands in Kenya: Advancing Labour Standards through Cooperative Action, is a four-year project funded by The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), through U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL).

Sustainable investments in African agriculture

Understanding and improving women's work on digital labour platforms

The project explores the experiences of women on digital labour platforms in multiple sectors of the economy in India, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. It builds evidence on the emerging opportunities and challenges platforms create to provide guidance...

Digitalization, the future of work and the teaching profession

Inclusive Growth through Decent Work in the Great Rift Valley

This project promotes decent jobs through formal skills development and business development and community engagement.

Good Practice

The law-growth nexus - Phase III: Labour law and the enabling business environment for MSMEs in Kenya - Final Evaluation

Better Utilization of Skills for Youth through Quality Apprenticeships (BUSY)

Kenya Youth Employment Support through Skills (K-YESS)

Strengthening human security in the border communities of Turkana II (extended)

The most significant impact of ILO’s contribution to strengthening human security in Turkana is making child labour a visible and feasible problem. Child labour is today visible in terms of it being seen as a problem as opposed to a socio-culturally...

Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica

The Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica is a technical cooperation programme of the ILO, under DFID funding. From its office in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), CoopAfrica covers 9 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. CoopAfrica assists...

ILO-Netherlands Partnership

Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities (PROSPECTS) in Kenya

ILO-Netherlands Partnership

Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities (PROSPECTS) in Iraq