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SKOLKOVO

Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO has completed an educational program for VET management teams in Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation

The "Managing the changes in the VET system to strengthen regional economy”, international educational program for colleges and secondary vocational education institutions was completed in the Arkhangelsk region.

Apprenticeship programme resumes after COVID-19 closure

Training institutions in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar resume with Apprenticeship Programme after nation-wide COVID-19 closures.

COVID-19: Stimulating the economy and employment

As jobs crisis deepens, ILO warns of uncertain and incomplete labour market recovery

The International Labour Organization’s latest analysis of the labour market impact of COVID-19 finds its impact on the world of work was more severe than previously estimated, and offers three scenarios for the second half of 2020.

Syria: IV Brussels Conference

Statement by the ILO Director-General to the Brussels IV Conference supporting Syria and the region

“Let us focus on building back better with a human-centred approach with and for refugees and their host communities,” ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has said to the Brussels IV Conference on supporting the future of Syria and the region, convened...

ILO/Sida Partnership on Employment Working Paper No. 6

Attaining SDG 8 in Azerbaijan: The challenges of economic transformation and job creation

ILO COOP participates in Open Innovation Campus session on health cooperatives and the pandemic

ILO Country study

Portugal : Rapid assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the economy and labour market

COVID-19 and the World of Work: Rapid Assessment of the Employment Impacts and Policy Responses MONTENEGRO

The report provides evidence that show that the lockdown measures had severe impacts on employment. It offers six policy options for the country for supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes during the reactivation phase.

COVID-19 and the World of work

36,000 jobs are at immediate risk--EBRD/ILO advise Montenegro labour market after coronavirus

Recommendations aimed at protecting vulnerable workers and exposed enterprises

How COVID-19 affects Europeans and the EU labour market

The ILO and Eurofound jointly organized a webinar which discussed the impact of the current crisis on European workers and businesses. Europe is hard hit, but it has swiftly responded to the pandemic.

International Labour Rights

ITUC Global Rights Index 2020 shows workers’ rights violations occur too often in Central and Eastern Europe

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) released its yearly Global Rights Index in June 2020. This year, the report affirms that the violations of workers’ rights is increasing globally, and is the highest in seven years. For Central and...

Social protection in the EU

Building Back Better: Strengthening Social Protection in the EU

The UN Human Rights Regional Office for Europe and the ILO jointly organized a webinar to explore promising practices and challenges for social protection systems in the EU. Panelists agreed that economic and social policies need to work in tandem.

Co-operatives UK gives a special award for ILO COOP on the occasion of its Centenary

The award recognizes the important role played by the ILO on cooperative development around the world since 1920.

Concept note of webinar on EU-India remittances corridor

Concept note of webinar organized by the EU-India CDMM Project, the ICMPD (project implanting partner) on EU-India remittances corridor.

COVID-19: Supporting employment and incomes

Shifting production to fight COVID-19 in Moldova

Mihai Balan's small business in southern Moldova usually makes decorative souvenirs, but with the COVID-19 pandemic he shifted production to make visors for frontline health workers. Mihai Balan is a beneficiary of the ILO project "Promotion of...

ILO COOP 100 Interview

ILO Interview with Legacoop President, Mauro Lusetti

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...

ILO and Uzbekistan assess progress in cooperation during an online meeting

New Decent Work Country Programme will remain the primary framework for the ILO support to the Uzbek constituents. It will set new horizons of cooperation with increased focus on the COVID-19 longer term implications response. This was stated by...

Towards an effective, influential and inclusive social dialogue in Ukraine

The purpose of this Green Paper is to stimulate broad public discussion in Ukraine on how to improve the effectiveness, influence and inclusiveness of social dialogue.

A comparative overview of drivers and outcomes of labour law and industrial relations reforms in selected Central and Eastern European...

This report seeks to provide a comparative overview of the policy goals and rationale which led to the reform of labour law and industrial relations systems, and the outcomes of these changes in law and practice, in selected CEE countries.

ILO and UNTFSSE participate in the first meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Luxembourg Declaration under the Spanish Presidency

Representatives from the EU member states confirmed their commitment to promote the social economy and discussed the importance of social economy organizations in COVID-19 recovery measures.