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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.

Colombia

Agrosura, the Colombian coffee company that improved its safe and healthy working environments with the ILO

Located in Salgar, Antioquia, Agrosura found in the SCORE Training a bridge of communication that helped it to increase its productivity. How did this ILO methodology help Agrosura realize a tangible change in the company?

Colombia

A Colombian media commits to gender equality with the ILO's "Protocol on Prevention and Response to Gender-Based Violence"

One of the premier newspapers in Colombia, El Espectador, has put its bets on the SCORE Gender Equality Model (MIG SCORE), bringing forward the debate on gender-based violence, one of the pillars of MIG SCORE and a priority of the International...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

DRIVERS OF STRONG BUSINESS PERFORMANCE. An analysis of SMEs in selected emerging economies.

This evidence based report identifies micro and macro factors for SME's sucess on eight emerging-market economies: Egypt, Vietnam, Turkey, Colombia, Indonesia, Tunisia, Belarus, and Peru.

12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Elective 1: Promoting fundamental principles and rights at work in the SSE

The electives of the SSE Academy were designed for practitioners from around the world to share and discuss practices, ideas and models for SSE action in specific fields. The first elective 1 took place on 16, 17 and 18 November 2021. It focused on...

Report

Promoting Decent Work in Refugee and Mixed Migration Contexts

A South-South Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) Initiative Between Turkey and Colombia

Productivity

Trends in productivity and structural changes: A comparative analysis of four emerging-market economies

This study undertaken by the Bureau for Employers' Activities of the ILO (ACT/EMP) is part of a research project to analyse the barriers to productivity growth, diversification and structural change in four selected emerging market economies...

SCORE Programme

Survey shows SMEs still struggling 18 months into the pandemic

ILO SCORE programme conducted a survey that gathered inputs from over 800 enterprises in 8 countries to help identify the key challenges and needs for enterprises 18 months into the pandemic. Results paint a grim picture.

Colombia

ILO SCORE Training boost SMEs productivity of the cement sector in Colombia by 210%

As a result of SCORE Training, the Boyacá Cimienta Partnership (ABC) increased the productivity of its supplier firms up to 210 percent. What was the process undertaken for achieving such satisfactory results?

Blue or pink, boy or girl? How Gender Biases Influence Work Environments

The SCORE Program in Colombia decided to conduct an experiment: we invited over seven-hundred people from different enterprises, unions and public entities to answer, by looking at old baby photographs, whether the baby in the photograph was a girl...

Compendium of Good Practices

Building a culture of workplace compliance through development cooperation

This compendium of good practices provides a unique set of successful practices from development cooperation projects to share knowledge gained and to help compliance actors improve efficiency with the long-term aim to replicate the positive results...

News

ILO Colombia and Turkey launch e-learning course for the sharing of good practices to promote decent work for refugees and migrants in the...

Within the framework of the initiative “Promoting decent work in refugee and mixed migration contexts: A south-south triangular cooperation (SSTC) initiative between Turkey and Colombia”, the ILO-ITC e-learning course was launched to bring...

MSME Day 2021

SCORE Training stepping up to ensure MSMEs improve their productivity and working conditions even during difficult times

The SCORE programme has been encouraged to adapt and expand its training offer due to the health challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the looming economic and environmental threats, and the commitment of SCORE Training partners around the...

Alquería, a company that is committed to gender equality

Thanks to the implementation of ILO's SCORE Training Gender Equality Model (MIG SCORE), the Colombian dairy company took a significant step towards gender equality and sustainability.

CAN/Colombia/C.87

Discussion of individual case: Colombia C.87

Committee on the Application of Standards - ILC, 109th session, 2021

Representation alleging non-observance by Colombia of the Conventions Nos 3, 12, 17, 18, 24, 25, and 144

CAN/PV.17 - Colombia C.87

Draft PV – PV.17 – Colombia C.87 - 15 June 2021 Projet de PV – PV.17 – Colombie C.87 - 15 juin 2021 Proyecto de actas literales – PV.17 –...

The first company in the dairy sector to implement SCORE Training Gender Equality module (MIG SCORE) in Colombia

Alqueria was born 61 years ago. Since then, the main goal has been bringing nutrition and health to every corner of Colombia. The company reaffirmed its commitment to business sustainability by implementing ILO's Gender Equality Module (MIG SCORE).

CAN/D/Colombia-C.87

Information on the application of ratified Conventions supplied by governments on the list of individual cases

Colombia - Convention No. 87

World Environment Day 2021 – Reimagine, recreate, restore

SCORE Training re-imagined and equipped to help SMEs build back greener

The COVID-19 crisis has forced all companies to re-imagine their ways of doing business in order to ensure the continuity of their activities and the health of their employees. SCORE Training has not been spared the changes in the working...