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Bangladesh Decent Work Country Programme 2006-2009

Bangladesh Decent Work Country Programme was developed with active participation of tripartite constituents and has been implemented for the period 2006-2009, focusing on improving skills and entrepreneurship for enhanced employability and...

Unfair recruitment

Unravelling the vicious cycle of recruitment: Labour Migration from Bangladesh to the Gulf States

This study in Bangladesh was commissioned against the backdrop of growing concern globally about the particular vulnerability of both regular and irregular migrant workers to exploitation, trafficking and forced labour. It was undertaken to inform...

Launch of Smart Business Initiative Alliance

The Alliance aims to create awareness raising and advocacy on child labour, capacity building of its partners for improved business, and to demonstrate sustainable replicable models for hazardous free working conditions for employers and workers.

Smart Business Initiatives (SBI)

The SBI Alliance provides an informal framework that aims to reduce hazardous child labour in urban informal sectors by removing hazardous conditions from work through advocacy and awareness raising campaigns, workplace improvement programs based on...

Welcome address at the High Level Forum on Social Dialogue and Decent Work - Our Challenges

By Ms Panudda Boonpala, Director, ILO Office in Bangladesh

High Level Forum on "Social Dialogue and Decent Work: Our Challenges"

The key message from the forum was the need to raise productivity and address the rights of workers in the informal economy, particularly in the migration and agriculture sector. It also emphasized that Bangladesh Decent Work Country Programme...

Social justice

90 years working for social justice, 36 years in Bangladesh

This information booklet is about ILO and its constituents during the last 36 years in Bangladesh. On one hand, it reflects the experiences, good practices and stories of our cooperation; on the other, it touches upon the views, concerns and...

ILO to mark its 90th anniversary

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is to mark its 90th anniversary with a series of events and activities held around the world by governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations representing its 182 member States. The overall theme for...

ILO-UNICEF-UNESCO

Child labour and education in Bangladesh: evidence and policy recommendations

This publication aims to capture the findings of a research analysis on child labour and education commissioned by the ILO in cooperation with UNICEF and UNESCO on annual World Day Against Child Labour in 2008 which carried the theme “Education –...

Group report: fellowship 2

The TVET Reform Project aims to support change within the TVET system of Bangladesh. It is an ambitious program of activities that focus on a broad range of TVET issues including development of new national policy, implementation of competency based...

Brief

Green jobs assessment in agriculture and forestry sector in Bangladesh

The concept of green jobs is a new one. It focuses on the climate change impacts on earth and searches the ways for sustainable economic and social development and environmental protection at national, regional and global level. This includes jobs...

First ILO course in women’s entrepreneurship offered in Bangladesh

The first course using an internationally-established entrepreneurship training programme for women has been carried out by experts from the ILO in Rangamati, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).

Stakeholders’ consultation on assessment of green jobs

On 9 April, in Dhaka, a stakeholders’ consultation on green jobs assessment studies was organized jointly by the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the ILO.

Trend and country responses to child labour: Reflections on achievements, challenges, gaps and way forward

It is expected that the discussions on the critical notes on way forward and recommendation on child labour elimination that entail this report will provide a broad basis for the consultation and that would be helpful in the preparation for upcoming...

Fellowship programme for policy makers

The first fellowship batch under the Technical and Vocational Education Training project comprising of senior government and employers'organization visited Malaysia and Australia. The objective was to provide them first hand knowledge on the...

Recognition of prior learning

The recognition of prior learning requires the recognition and acceptance by any training organizations of the qualifications and statements of skills issued by other RTOs and registered assessors enabling individuals to receive national recognition...

Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE)

Community-based training (CBT) now referred to by ILO as Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE), a needs- based methodology for promoting income-generation through skills training and support services, has undergone long period of evolution,...

Assessment of formal and informal apprenticeship in Bangladesh

Looks at apprenticeship structures within four (4) business sectors: Leather and leather goods; transport equipment (shipbuilding and bicycle manufacture); agro-food processing; information technology (IT).

National policy responses to the financial and economic crisis: the case of Bangladesh

Partnership with Dhaka City Corporation

On 4 December 2008, in Dhaka, the ILO-IPEC Urban Informal Economy project signed a three-year agreement with the Dhaka City Cooperation to develop partnership for the implementation of child labour programmes on non-formal education, skill...