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Step up to success - boosting job prospects with skills training in Sri Lanka
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Step up to success - boosting job prospects with skills training in Sri Lanka

Enhancing decent-work and safe migration, ILO Sri Lanka supported hospitality sector skills programme for aspirant and returnee migrants is providing both theory, and hands-on training through industry placements.

Shifting gears – Sri Lanka’s women crane operators

Work based learning

Shifting gears – Sri Lanka’s women crane operators

Upeksha, Nimasha, Ruchini, and Nethmi are among the handful of women transfer crane operators in Sri Lanka's Colombo port. They are participants of ILO supported work-based training programme that's empowering women break stereotypes and take up...

Unlocking new horizons – Enhancing skills of Sri Lankan migrant workers

Skills for migrant workers

Unlocking new horizons – Enhancing skills of Sri Lankan migrant workers

For many Sri Lankan returnee and aspirant migrant workers acquiring new skills create new possibilities for stable, and better paying decent work opportunities. ILO supported training programme focused on the care sector is opening a world of...

Breaking barriers to bring pride to her country

ILO in action

Breaking barriers to bring pride to her country

In Sri Lanka, Upeksha Madushani Maduthilaka is receiving on the job training in the Colombo Port as a transfer crane operator, a traditionally male dominated job. Thanks to the National Union of Sea Farers and with the support of the ILO and the...

The International Labour Organization and Government of Japan join hands together to enhanced socio-economic reintegration and economic...

Sustainable reintegration of Sri Lankan migrant workers

The International Labour Organization and Government of Japan join hands together to enhanced socio-economic reintegration and economic...

Certificate awarding ceremony for the training course on Maritime and Seamanship by Mahapola Port and Maritime Academy

Skills Knowledge and Employability

Certificate awarding ceremony for the training course on Maritime and Seamanship by Mahapola Port and Maritime Academy

The Mahapola Port and Maritime Academy, supported by the Government of Japan, and ILO Sri Lanka with the facilitation of the National Union of Seafarers of Sri Lanka (NUSS) successfully conducted the awarding ceremony for the 22 trainees who...

Supporting the Socio-economic Reintegration of Sri Lankan Migrant Workers Repatriated due to the COVID-19 Outbreak (IOM-ILO collaboration)

Supporting the Socio-economic Reintegration of Sri Lankan Migrant Workers Repatriated due to the COVID-19 Outbreak (IOM-ILO collaboration)

This project aims at contributing towards sustainable reintegration of Sri Lankan migrant workers. The project has been designed with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in alignment with the National COVID-19 Response Plan for...