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Staff news

Retrospective on challenges and successes - Interview with Markus Pilgrim, Director of ILO Central and Eastern Europe stepping down

Markus Pilgrim retires after long and successful service at the ILO. During his tenure as Director, the ILO Central and Eastern Europe Office managed to further raise its profile as a specialised technical agency on world of work issues and to...

Background paper

Teaching and the teaching profession in a digital world – Bosnia and Herzegovina

The background paper analyzes the experiences, challenges and good practices of digital technology in teaching and education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in order to examine the problems and ways of guaranteeing equitable access to quality digital...

Women and youth in Banja Luka entrepreneurship ecosystem

Promoting inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystems for women and youth

Women and youth in Sarajevo entrepreneurship ecosystem

Promoting Inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystems for women and youth

Trade unions

Workers’ rights in Europe in decline, says ITUC Global Rights Index 2023

In July 2023, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) released its 10th Global Rights Index. The report paints a grim picture of workers’ rights around the globe. According to ITUC, Europe is no longer a bastion of workers’ rights.

Youth employment

VIDEO Meet the Manager: Quick intro on the Youth Guarantee in the Western Balkans

Daniela Zampini, Senior Employment Specialist of ILO Central and Eastern Europe explains what the Youth Guarantee is and how this policy framework ensures that young people up to the age of 30 integrate into the labour markets of the Western Balkan...

Employment creation

“Jobs for all” - European Union and Sweden pledge five million euros in support of employment of young women and the hard-to-employ in...

The new project “EU4Employment”, introduced to the public on 27 February 2023 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, will be implemented by the ILO with a budget of four million euros from the European Union and one million euros from Sweden.

Three essential questions

What are the proven means to reduce informality?

In our series of interviews with leading researchers, economists and policymakers, we interviewed Professor Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași, Romania on how...

A local business promoting women’s employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina

ILO Voices | Rural economy

Entrepreneur turns problems into profit

When COVID-19 hit, Merima Kukić Gego’s future looked bleak. Her traineeship had ended and her options in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina looked like unemployment or migration. But instead she found the drive to start a food and tourism business,...

Inside the ILO

ILO Budapest team reunites and plans for future

After almost three years, staff from across the region gathered for a workshop focused on addressing future challenges.​

EU4Business

Local will never go out of style: ILO supports the textile industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina to offset the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

The European Union-funded ILO project EU4Business Recovery provides financial and technical assistance to 29 textile companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina supporting women entrepreneurs, young people and other vulnerable workers. With this support,...

Employment creation

ILO supports first entrepreneurial steps and contributes to the creation of more than 120 new businesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina

A consortium consisting of the German GIZ, UNDP and the ILO implemented a private sector development project, “EU4Business” in Bosnia and Herzegovina funded by the European Union and Germany. The ILO assisted start-ups as a means to job creation....

Workers' rights

ITUC Global Rights Index 2022 shows that many workers in Central and Eastern Europe have no access to rights

In July 2022, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) released its yearly Global Rights Index. It shows that in Europe, the most frequently violated rights have been the right to strike and the right to bargain collectively. Through...

Product/service offer: Informality

New ILO report

Social protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina at a crossroads: Challenges and key policy issues

The recent ILO report says that the social protection system in Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing formidable challenges stemming from insufficient investment in closing the social protection gaps, inefficient resource allocation, and persistent...

Policy brief: Social Protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina: challenges and key policy issues

This policy note summarises the key challenges in the social protection financing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and presents recommendations for action.

Issues in Social Protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina: coverage, adequacy, expenditure and financing

This report presents the core problems in the existing social protection system in Bosnia and Herzegovina based on evidence-based analysis and identifies the key issues requiring action.

Job creation in the Western Balkans

How nearshoring may create opportunities for the Western Balkan economies?

In this issue of short interviews with important researchers and practitioners from Central and Eastern Europe on burning questions concerning labour and social policies, we talked to Zuzana Zavarska, Economist at the Vienna Institute for...