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Promoting decent work
The ILO trains a new cohort of Financial Education Trainers in Ethiopia
The ILO trained 20 Business Development Service providers in Ethiopia as candidate certified national trainers, enhancing financial literacy to empower businesses and communities across the country.
Voices from ILO PROSPECTS
From refugee to entrepreneur: ILO’s mentorship transforms Fatima’s small business
Fatima Khalif Abdi, a Somalian refugee in Ethiopia and mother of five, transformed her maize business with support from Business Plan Competition, expanding her offerings and setting ambitious goals for the future.
Promoting decent work
Ethiopian youth organizations equipped to tackle unemployment with ILO's Youth-to-Youth Fund
The ILO and Edukans Foundation trained ten Ethiopian youth-led organizations to implement employment projects, creating over 1,000 jobs. Supported by the ILO Youth-to-Youth Fund, the training focused on project management, financial management, and...
PROSPECTS Partnership
ILO trains social health protection actors in Ethiopia
Social Health Protection training equips Ethiopian social health protection actors with the knowledge and experience to strengthen health financing and social health protection systems.
Press Release
Business Plan Competition Empowers Refugee, Host Communities in Ethiopia's Somali Region
Start and improve your business
ILO extends capacity building support to business development service providers in Ethiopia
A new batch of trainers were trained in ILO’s Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) programme to improve self-reliance of host and refugee community entrepreneurs.
Press Release
Second Phase of PROSPECTS Launched in Ethiopia, Empowering Refugees, IDPs and Host Communities
Meaningful youth engagement
Empowering Ethiopian youth: ILO Youth to Youth Fund winners announced
Following a rigorous selection process, ten Youth-led organizations in Ethiopia won the ILO Youth-to-Youth Fund, a unique grant supporting them to implement youth entrepreneurship activities promoting decent work for refugee and host community.
ILO Social finance
ILO empowers microfinance staff to promote financial literacy among hosts and refugees
The cadre of trainers trained on ILO's renowned financial education curriculum will strengthen the capacity of financial service providers to educate hosts and refugees and improve their access to financial services.
Press release
ILO and Shabelle Bank pilot innovative product for financial inclusion of hosts and forcibly displaced in Ethiopia
Bridging digital divide
ILO drives the inclusion of hosts and refugees in Ethiopia's digital economy
The agreements signed between International Labour Organization and Ethiopian government authorities will promote employment and policy solutions for inclusion of hosts and refugees in country's expanding digital economy.
Meaningful youth engagement
ILO's Youth-to-Youth Fund to tackle youth unemployment in Ethiopia
Youth-led organizations in Ethiopia participated in a competition to secure financial and technical support for their proposals to promote decent work and economic inclusion of young people from the host and refugee communities.
Portraits from PROSPECTS - Visualizing change in host and refugee communities
Depicting stories of host and refugee individuals with improved self-reliance and resilience, an exhibition led by ILO PROSPECTS programme at the colonnade of ILO Headquarters will underpin ILO’s approaches promoting inclusive socio-economic growth...
Meaningful youth engagement
The Youth Network Committee in Ethiopia ensure youth-responsive implementation of PROSPECTS activities
The committee met for their third quarterly review meeting, visited an urban refugee settlement and learned about monitoring and evaluation techniques to support Advancing Meaningful Youth Engagement initiative of the ILO PROSPECTS programme.
ILO explores transformative private sector solutions in forced displacement contexts
Through a three-day knowledge-sharing event bringing together a wide range of partners, the ILO placed the spotlight on the importance of working closely with private sector actors in forced displacement with a collective vision for sustainable and...
Ground report
Satellite vocational training center brings hope to displaced and local communities in Ethiopia
ILO and its partners are tackling the challenges of limited income generation in Ethiopia's arid eastern region by constructing a satellite vocational training center, providing new job opportunities and essential skills, benefiting both host and...
Skill development for refugees
Women defy gender norms, access vocational training on hard labour occupations in Ethiopia
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and its partners have introduced tailored courses, empowering refugee and host community members to gain professional skills and pursue meaningful careers.
Global Synthesis Report
Review of national policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks and practice
A baseline study on the right to work and rights at work for refugees - Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Uganda, Sudan
Meaningful youth engagement
Refugee and host community youth call for more than a ‘seat at the table’ at UN Youth Forum
The ILO, UNHCR and UNICEF organized a side-event on the margins of the ECOSOC Youth Forum 2023 where refugee and host community youth advocated for a greater say in issues that affect them.
Meaningful youth engagement
Mentoring host and refugee youth in Ethiopia to become future leaders
The ILO, UNHCR and UNICEF facilitated a Youth Leadership Academy for members of the Youth Network Committee in Ethiopia to assist them in organizing and leading social development and advocacy initiatives in their communities.