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Differential Effects of Vocational Training on Men and Women and the Challenge of Program Dropouts and Attrition

This brief introduces evidence on labour market and broader socio-economic effects and well as lessons on both programme and evaluation design provided by an experimental impact evalualtion of vocational training for vulnerable youth in Malawi.

HIV prevention

Backing young entrepreneurs in Malawi helps reduce HIV risk

How an ILO programme in Malawi supports hundreds of young people facing high risks of HIV infection to become entrepreneurs.

102nd International Labour Conference

Address by Her Excellency Dr Joyce Banda, President of the Republic of Malawi

World Day Against Child Labour

Communites Tackling Child Labour in Malawi

In Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, half the population lives under the poverty line, and it's estimated one and a half million children are in child labour. But according to the International Labour Organization, a new, community...

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Malawi is committed to combat child labour, says H.E. Mrs Joyce Banda

H.E. Mrs Joyce Banda, President of Malawi pledged "to continue to champion the zero tolerance to child labour in Malawi, and also to intensify programs to eradicate the poverty which is the root cause of this problem". In her first visit to the...

World Day Against Child Labour

Malawi: Finding solutions for child domestic workers

Millions of children around the world, mainly girls, are working in households other than their own, doing domestic work such as cleaning, ironing, cooking and looking after other children and the elderly. According to a new report on domestic work...

Malawi: From Child Labour to Decent Work

In Malawi, poverty, lack of education, gender inequalities and the HIV pandemic are the engines driving child labour, and make it so hard to defeat. But a new intervention called "convergence" -- which integrates action at the national, district and...

102nd International Labour Conference

President Banda: Malawi champions “zero tolerance” of child labour

In her first visit to the International Labour Conference, Malawian President, Joyce Banda, says that despite global efforts, child labour remains a “huge problem”.

Improving safety and health at work through a decent work agenda (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project INT/09/08/EEC - Evaluation consultant Dwight Ordoñez

School-to-Work Transition

Making the move from school to work in Malawi and Zambia

The global jobs crisis is taking a heavy toll on young people in the advanced economies of Europe where 1 in five are out of work, but in the developing world the situation is much more severe. Two out of three young people in developing countries...

"Is Small Still Beautiful?"

Literature Review of Recent Empirical Evidence on the Contribution of SMEs to Employment Creation

The enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in Malawi

Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 20

Recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases in Malawi 2012

The overall objective of this study was to improve the collection, recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases with the overall goal of preventing occupational accidents and diseases in Malawi. This study was commissioned by...

Press Release_Launch and Dissemination Event for the Malawi Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises Assessment Report and Action...

Launch and Dissemination Event for the Malawi Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises Assessment Report and Action Plan

Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises in Malawi

The Employers' Consultative Association of Malawi (ECAM), with technical support of the ILO, completed an assessment of the Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises (EESE) in Malawi. The final report and an action plan were presented at a...

Launch and Dissemination Event for the Malawi Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises Assessment Report and Action Plan

Honourable Minister of Industry and Trade Mr. Sosten Gwengwe launched the Assessment of an Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises for Malawi at Lilongwe Hotel

Support to National Action Plan to reduce Child Labour in Malawi (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project: MLW/09/50/USA Evaluation Consultants: Stephen Tembo (Leader) & Janet Chidothi. [Sub-study by Bright Sibale]

The enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in Malawi

ILO Partners’ Meeting promotional brochure: Rising to the challenge – scaling up the response to HIV and AIDS through workplace action in...

Cooperation to address the worst forms of child labour in agriculture: Support to international agricultural partnership (Midterm Review...

Project GLO/09/58/USA - Consultant: Dr. Una Murray