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Germany Continues Support to Cash for Work Programmes in Jordan

The German Government has been supporting the KfW/ILO project “Employment through Labour Intensive Infrastructure“ in Jordan since 2016.

Briefing note

Employment through Labour Intensive Infrastructure in Jordan - July 2019

Since 2016, the ILO, with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of the Federal Republic of Germany, through the German Development Bank (KfW), has been implementing an Employment Intensive...

Women refugees

Success is sweet for “Determined Women” from Jordan and Syria

A group of Syrian and Jordanian women who received ILO support to set up a joint business venture producing and selling sweets and other foods, have found success.

EU Ambassador to Jordan: “Jobs are the centre of our effort to help Jordan get on a path to sustainable economic growth”

H.E. Ambassador Fontana examines impact of EU-ILO interventions to promote decent work in Jordan.

Skills and employability

More Trade for More Jobs: Identifying The Employment Potential of Jordan’s Exports

This report explores the potential of creating decent work opportunities in Jordan through expanding exports, estimating that one-third of the jobs that the country seeks to create for Jordanians can happen through improved exports. The report also...

Better Work Jordan holds its eleventh Annual Stakeholders' Forum

Better Work Jordan’s annual forum calls for strengthened efforts to sustain progress in working conditions and building more partnerships to ensure the sustainability of compliance in the garment industry in Jordan.

Training trainers to promote cooperative development in Jordan’s agriculture sector

An ILO “training of trainers” workshop strengthens the role of cooperatives in advancing decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees in Jordan’s agricultural sector.

ILO and Swiss Embassy in Jordan Screen Documentary: “Thank you Soma - شكراَ صوما” on International Domestic Workers’ Day

The screening and panel discussion were organised by the ILO and Swiss Embassy to raise awareness around migrant domestic workers’ rights through the relationship between migrant workers and Arab youth.

World Day Against Child Labour sheds light on working children in Jordan’s agricultural sector

This year’s celebration of World Day Against Child Labour promotes the theme, “Children Should Work on their Dreams, not in the Fields!” Child Labour is a key concern in Jordan’s agricultural sector, where 82 per cent of farmers recently surveyed by...

World Day Against Child Labour

Jordanian youth highlight plight of working children through artistic performances

The performances were part of an event marking this year’s World Day Against Child Labour.

Factsheet

Addressing Worst Forms of Child Labour in Jordan’s Agricultural Sector - Survey Results (June 2019)

A survey was conducted to provide a better insight into the needs of vulnerable children and their families in Jordan's agricultural sector. Conducted in Irbid, Ramtha, Zarqa, Mafraq and Northern Jordan Valley, the survey focuses on tent settlements...

World Day Against Child Labour

World Day Against Child Labour sheds light on working children in Jordan’s agricultural sector

ILO Jordan holds events for children working on farms to highlight importance of education on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour.

Water resource management

Supporting farmers in water-scarce Jordan through ILO’s labour-intensive approach

Two years ago, Kifah Khreisat, a farmer from the southern Jordanian town of Al Ees, in the Tafilah Governorate, was supported by the ILO to build a rainwater harvesting cistern to help him meet the needs of his farm. The initiative is part of a...

Water Cisterns Impact Assessment Analysis Report - Jordan (2019)

The objective of the study is to assess the utilisation of rainwater harvesting cisterns and their impact on the livelihood of beneficiaries and cultivated farms.

Infrastructure and productivity in Jordan

Supporting farmers in water-scarce Jordan through ILO’s labour-intensive approach

An ILO project in Jordan supports hundreds of local farmers with the construction of rainwater cisterns to help improve infrastructure and agricultural productivity.

Jordan - Country baseline under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2018)

Job creation for Syrian Refugees and Jordanian Host Communities through Green Works in Agriculture and Forestry

Netherlands-ILO cooperation in Jordan

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (2018-22)

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (2018-22)

DWCP report Jordan

Advancing decent work and better living conditions for workers in Jordan’s agricultural sector

Representatives from the ILO and the Kingdom of the Netherlands visited a makeshift camp in the northern city of Ramtha to examine some of the interventions that are being implemented under an ILO project aimed at improving working and living...