All resources: Kenya

Registration, Licensing, and Inspection of Private Recruitment Agencies for Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia

This policy brief examines the registration, licensing, and inspection of private recruitment agencies in Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia to improve regional migration management. The research, based on studies of Ugandan domestic workers in Saudi...

Legislative frameworks on complaints and remedy procedures for Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia

This policy brief analyses legislative frameworks for complaints and remedy procedures for migrant workers in Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia. It highlights that access to these mechanisms is severely limited by the financial and staffing constraints of...

Tanzania Validates National Communication Strategy on Safe Labour Migration

Multi-Stakeholder Engagement and Validation Workshop on Tanzania’s National Communication Strategy and Plan for the Promotion of Safe Labour Migration

Strengthening Kenya’s fight against child labour through data-driven action

Kenya strengthens its fight against child labour with new data-driven solutions. An ILO-led workshop in Naivasha trained national experts to analyse Kenya Housing Survey data, turning statistics into actionable policies.

Case study on the ratification of Convention 88: Kenya

Kenya puts inclusion and accessibility at the center of employment services with support from the ILO

TVET Officials and Instructors Across Ethiopia skills strengthened on Core Skills

Strengthening institutional capacity to integrate core skills into TVET teaching and preparation programmes for potential migrant workers.

Guidelines on costing and financing: Recognition of prior learning

ILO Publication

Embracing digital in Uganda

A practical guide for freelancers, digital entrepreneurs and owners of micro and small enterprises.

Tanzania Pilots Information Note to Prepare Migrant Workers for Oman

A pilot workshop in Dar es Salaam to test a new Information Note designed to help prospective migrant workers understand the realities of living and working in Oman.

Voices from the ILO PROSPECTS

Threads of hope: Refugee entrepreneur finds new markets online

Masika Masimengo, a Congolese refugee in Kakuma, turned traditional basket-weaving into an online enterprise after completing ILO's Digitalize Your Business training and joining an online marketplace. Her success under ILO PROSPECTS Kenya...

International Year of Cooperatives

Measures to strengthen cooperatives and their role in sustainable development showcased at UN Headquarters

At a high-level event for the International Year of Cooperatives, governments, the ILO, and representatives of the cooperative movement shared recent policies, financing schemes and education initiatives, alongside new data and international...

Safer farms, stronger futures: ILO empowers Kenya’s castor farmers

Workers and farmers are exposed to several occupational hazards and risks at the farming and aggregation stages of the castor supply chain. Sharp tools, toxic sap, handling of heavy loads, awkward postures, repetitive movements and hazardous...

Voices from the ILO PROSPECTS

Refugee designer grows fashion business in Kakuma, Kenya

With support of the ILO, Christine Fazili Kalibanya turns a single sewing machine in Kakuma into a six‑machine fashion workshop that produces gowns and kitenge bags while training other refugee women to earn their own livelihoods.

PROSPECTS Impact

Empowering enterprise: Refugees and hosts thrive with business support services in Kenya

A stronger Chambers of Commerce and targeted business training supported by the ILO are boosting small enterprises for refugees and host communities in Kenya’s Turkana and Garissa counties. With added mentorship and a digital marketplace,...

Kenyan employers step forward to support refugee inclusion under the Shirika Plan

South Sudan Strengthens Trade Union Role in Peace, Resilience, and Migrant Worker Protection

A two-day workshop on the role of trade unions in consolidating peace, resilience, and the protection of migrant workers.

Somalia Holds Tripartite Executive Roundtable on International Labour Standards Reporting

A two-day Tripartite Executive Roundtable in Mogadishu to strengthen national capacity for the implementation and reporting of international labour standards (ILS), with a particular focus on labour migration governance.

Kenya makes employment services inclusive with the ILO’s support on online job portal and training

Kenya overhauls the National Employment Authority Integrated Management System with the aim of making employment services inclusive, modern, and accessible.

Tanzania holds fourth National Technical Working Group meeting on Labour Migration

Tanzania's fourth National Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on labour migration in Dodoma brought together government institutions, social partners, and the ILO to review achievements under the BRMM programme over the past three years, identify...

Kenya Builds Frontline Capacity for Safe and Orderly Labour Migration

Strengthening coordination and technical capacity among officers working at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport labour migration desk and the One Stop Shop Centre, which provide end to end labour migration services for outbound migrant workers.