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Taqeem Impact Brief Series, Issue 1

Taqeem - Al-Amal Microfinance Bank, Yemen

This Taqeem Impact Brief documents how Al-Amal Microfinance Bank in Yemen measures outcomes of the Youth Loan Fund, the tools that are applied and the findings and recommendations that emerge to assist them in improving impacts and programme design....

Making Learning Count: Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Youth Employment Programs in the Arab World

A collection of unique case studies explaining how youth-serving organizations improve their measurement of results by designing M&E systems that are appropriate to their needs and resources

COOP news update

This issue of the COOP News includes articles on various events, projects, trainings and meetings related to the work of the ILO's COOP Unit between June and October, 2015.

Agenda: Improving monitoring mechanisms of the domestic work sector in the Arab States

ILO: Unemployment among Palestinians up by over 25 per cent

Occupation, settlement expansion, violence and tensions further depress Palestinian economy.

Realizing a fair migration between Asia and the Arab States

The largest migrant flows from South Asia and part of South-East Asia are to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, who currently rely on foreign labour to fill in almost 90 per cent of private sector jobs, often in construction, service...

Report

Final Report - Egyptian Policy Lab on Youth Employment

This report summarizes the discussions and conclusions of the Egyptian Policy Lab on Youth Employment that was held on 30 April 2015 in Amman, Jordan.

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2015

ILO Director-General: Building a culture of prevention on occupational safety and health

Improving the governance and protection mechanisms for labour migration in the Middle East & Advocacy Strategy on ILO’s Domestic Workers...

Project RAB/12/05/SDC & RAB/12/01/SDC - Evaluation consultant: Pierre Mahy

Arab Labour Conference

ILO Director-General: Creating jobs key to stability in the Arab region

In his address to the Arab Labour Organization’s 42nd Conference, International Labour Organization Director-General Guy Ryder urged the region’s leaders to tackle unemployment, respond to globalization challenges, strengthen the private sector and...

ILO and UAE Agreement

ILO and UAE agree on capacity building programme for the MoL to govern its labour market and monitor working conditions

The two-year project will improve the UAE’s capacity to govern its labour market and monitor working conditions, including those of migrant workers.

Arab Labour Conference

ILO Director-General to open Arab Labour Conference in Kuwait

Guy Ryder to address the opening of the 42nd session of the Arab Labour Conference.

Apprenticeship systems

Technical seminar plans ahead for improvement of apprenticeship systems in some Arab States

The ILO and representatives from across the Arab region agree on new plans to bolster apprenticeship systems and address youth unemployment.

Decision on the sixth item on the agenda: Regional perspectives on development cooperation: The Arab States

Agenda - ILO Regional Training on Apprenticeship Systems in the Arab States

Building Hope and Opportunity: The Al Hassan Workers' Center

Tens of thousands of workers are employed in Jordan's fast-growing garment sector. Eighty percent of these workers are migrants. In an effort to improve their living and working conditions, the International Labour Organization initiated the...

Regional perspectives on development cooperation: The Arab States

The Governing Body is invited to request the Office to expand its development cooperation programme in the Arab States and to develop a regional resource mobilization strategy in accordance with the development cooperation strategy for the period...

International Women’s Day 2015

ILO to issue an update on progress made on gender equality in the world of work and a working paper on the motherhood pay gap

Stories from street children in Lebanon

Watch this series of short films featuring the stories of children who live and work on the streets of Lebanon’s cities, as told by the children themselves, using animation skills they learnt during a children’s advocacy training project.

Domestic Workers

Lebanon: What challenges for Domestic Workers?

The first Domestic Workers‘ Union in Lebanon was launched in January. More than 220,000 domestic workers face many challenges in Lebanon. Anna Biondi, Deputy Director of the ILO Bureau for Workers ‘Activities (ACTRAV), gives her views about the...