All resources: Colombia

Rapid Study

Decent work challenges and opportunities in the coffee supply chain in Colombia

This Rapid Study seeks to identify the underlying causes related to decent work deficits in the coffee supply chain in Colombia

Selling insurance through agent networks

Distribution is one of the biggest obstacles in offering insurance services to low-income households, small enterprises and rural communities. Digital channels offer new opportunities, but a more high-touch model is often needed to educate...

Our impact, Their voices

Advancing gender equality in Colombia’s dairy and construction industries

Over 450 workers across two enterprises were trained on concepts from the SCORE Training Gender Equality module: a simple, yet adaptable tool that helps enterprises achieve their diversity, inclusion and equity goals.

Social Finance Brief: Pacífico Seguros

Pacífico Seguros is Peru’s largest insurer in terms of premiums collected and second largest in terms of people insured. In this Social Finance Brief, we explore "Protected Business", an insurance product designed by Pacífico to cover the main risks...

The Government of Canada and ILO expand their partnership to strengthen institutional capacities in the governance of labour migration in...

Two new projects seek to strengthen the work of Ministries of Labor, Foreign Affairs, migration institutes, public employment services and vocational training institutions, as well as employers' and workers' organizations to integrate migrants and...

Social Finance Brief: Insurance for MSMEs in Mexico

The ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility has been collaborating with the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions to build inclusive insurance markets for excluded persons and for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. This...

ILO Voices | Social and solidarity economy

Our cooperative has dignified the work of waste pickers

Twenty-two years ago, Martha Elena Iglesias helped found a waster picker cooperative in Colombia called Planeta Verde. Over time, the cooperative has transformed how the local community views waste pickers and a sense of solidarity has developed...

Emerging Insight: Using a modular approach to improve client understanding

The ILO and CommonSpirit Health built competencies among Peruvian health providers to address the mental health of trafficking victims

The purpose of the training is to enhance the competencies and skills of professionals involved in the recovery and reintegration of victims of child trafficking.

ILO in action

We promote responsible business conduct in Latin America and the Carribean

ILO Chief Technical Advisor, Olga Orozco, speaks from Peru about the Responsible Business Conduct project in Latin America and the Caribbean (RBCLAC), which aims to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in the EU and in Latin America and...

E-formalization: Country case study

E-formalization: The Colombian experience

Background paper for the Global Employment Policy Review (GEPR), Second edition (forthcoming).

Women and the mine of the future: Preliminary analysis of ILO mining employment data by sex

This series of infographics presents a baseline analysis of gender-segregated data for 10 countries to provide greater understanding of the gendered employment profile of large-scale mining and its supply chain. It is drawn from household surveys,...

Social Finance Brief: Segurísimo

Segurísimo is a low-cost insurance product, developed by Seguros Mundial in 2020 and aimed at the vulnerable, rural or traditionally excluded people in Colombia. This brief gives a history of the development and characteristics of this inclusive...

Colombia: Preliminary analysis of ILO mining employment data by sex

Stories of Change

Between 2020 and 2021, nine countries actively engaged in the implementation of Strategic Compliance Plans across various economic sectors. These efforts resulted in a 39% increase in labour law compliance in targeted sectors and the improvement of...

Labour Overview series for Latin America and the Caribbean 2021

2021 Labour Overview, Latin America and the Caribbean - Executive Summary

The 2021 Employment Outlook describes a mixed bag scenario for employment and suggests that pre-pandemic levels will be reached by 2023 or even 2024.

12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Plenary Session 5: The importance of statistical instruments in measuring the SSE

COVID-19 and occupational safety and health in the coffee global supply chain in Colombia

This research examined the measures and actions taken by stakeholders in the coffee global supply chains in Colombia to prevent exposure to and transmission of COVID-19 in workplaces linked to this supply chain. Findings reveal entry points for the...

Colombia

Course on Labor Inclusion with a Gender Approach, a commitment to change

The Public Employment Service Unit (SPE), with the support of the International Labor Organization (ILO), particularly from the SCORE Program in Colombia, developed a course that seeks to close the labor gaps between women and men based on the tools...

Decent work for migrants: Swedish cooperation agency Sida and ILO announce new partnership

New project will focus on improving access to jobs for Venezuelan migrants and refugees in their host countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.