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Domestic Workers Association of Zimbabwe wins the ILO Skills Innovators Challenge

Winner of the ILO Innovators Challenge proposes to empower domestic workers with skills that respond to their current working world

World Youth Skills Day

1st ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call winner announced

The winner of the first ILO Skills Challenge Innovation Call has been announced, and the USD 50,000 prize has gone to a domestic workers association in Zimbabwe.

COVID-19: Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!

Most ILO programmes implemented in African countries, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, are now taking accelerated action on protecting the health, jobs and incomes of workers. These interventions include a focus on more comprehensive social...

World Day Against Child Labour

Message from ILO Regional Office for Africa to mark the World Day against Child Labour 12 June 2020

Most ILO programmes implemented in African countries, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, are now taking accelerated action on protecting the health, jobs and incomes of workers. These interventions include a focus on more comprehensive social...

Small businesses in Bulawayo contribute to the COVID-19 response

As the world comes to terms with the impact of COVID-19, manufacturers of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as masks, gloves and medical robes are struggling to address shortages in key inputs for their production following disturbances in...

Working paper

EPUB Environmental integrity and doing business in Zimbabwe: Challenges and engagement of sustainable enterprises

The objective of this paper is to explore the views of different groups of the business community, including workers, managers and owners of the formal as well as of the informal economy, on how environmental integrity is being pursued in Zimbabwe....

ILO Working paper 2

Environmental integrity and doing business in Zimbabwe: Challenges and engagement of sustainable enterprises

The objective of this paper is to explore the views of different groups of the business community, including workers, managers and owners of the formal as well as of the informal economy, on how environmental integrity is being pursued in Zimbabwe....

Bridging the gender divide

Building infrastructure for a rural-based horticultural project to directly benefit whole communities, has indirectly empowered some rural women with building skills.

“This is evidence of what strong partnerships can achieve”

Mutoko District, east of the capital Harare, is known for growing varieties of horticultural products. There is a glut of the produce every season, which affects prices and the farmers suffer heavy losses. With ILO support, an anchor enterprise has...

Improved market access through BDS training

By providing BDS training to the farmers, the project empowers the farmers to negotiate as well as determine the price of their produce.

Informal economy operators in Bulawayo to benefit from ILO’s Start and Improve Your Business programme

The ILO has trained 17 Start and Improve Your Business trainers to offer management-training services to improve the businesses operating in the informal economy.

Zimbabwe tripartite partners agree on priorities for 2020

Senior leaders from the Government; Workers’ and Employers’ Organizations met for a two-day meeting and agreed on the priority areas of action to advance the decent work agenda in 2020.

Zimbabwe takes steps to implement new Labour Migration Policy

There has been a growing commitment for making decent work a reality for migrant workers in Zimbabwe. This process is benefiting from technical and financial support from the ILO and International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Co-creating better work places for micro-enterprises

As part of efforts to facilitate the transition from the informal economy to the formal, the ILO convened a two-day meeting to co-create designs of workspaces and plans to enhance the sustainability of identified enterprises.

Report

Executive Summary - A qualitative study on stigma and discrimination experienced by indigenous peoples living with HIV or having TB at work

Indigenous peoples living with HIV or having TB face double discrimination. Being an LGBT indigenous person adds another layer to this. Barriers to accessing health services, denial of the right to work and discrimination in employment settings are...

Initiative to facilitate the transition from informality to formality launched in Bulawayo

The initiative is part of the Employment Promotion and Labour Market Governance Programme (2019 -2020), which in part, seeks to facilitate transition to formality in Zimbabwe.

Maternity income protection in Southern and Eastern Africa. From concept to practice

This publication is part of a collaboration of the ILO with the Eastern and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) to encourage the move from employer liability systems to social insurance based systems and to provide universal and...

HIV self-testing at workplaces in Zimbabwe

The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) of Zimbabwe, together with ILO, UNITAID, Populations Services International (PSI) and the National Aids Council (NAC), have implemented a HIV Self Testing (HIV/ST) initiative in ten companies. The...

Zimbabwean Artists Fast Forward to the Greener Future of Work

In July 2019 the Green enterPRIZE Innovation and Development Programme, supported by the Government of Sweden, sent out the "Fast Forward Competition for the Arts" call to artists from across Zimbabwe to express through arts the changing world of...

Workers in Zimbabwe reflect on the Future of Work

Trade union leaders met on 21 and 22 October 2019, in Harare for a labour symposium under the theme: “The Future of Work: Towards a resilient social contract”. The meeting discussed the disruptions currently experienced and expected in the world of...