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Sarajevo job fair strengthens links between skills and employment

The fair provided a platform for employers to shape occupational standards that will help ensure vocational education equips young people with the skills needed in today's labour market in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

New partnership set to strengthen Lebanon’s cooperative sector through better data and digital modernization

The ILO, Lebanon’s Ministry of Agriculture and the General Directorate of Cooperatives join forces to update nationwide cooperative data, strengthen institutional capacity and improve support for cooperatives.

ILO highlights skills, decent work and social dialogue at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026

The International Labour Organization is bringing its expertise on skills, decent work and social dialogue to WorldSkills Shanghai 2026, supporting global efforts to build inclusive, responsive skills systems that prepare people and enterprises for...

Labour migration

Ship to Shore Rights South-East Asia: Gender equality, diversity and inclusion strategy

This strategy provides an evidence-based framework for addressing intersecting forms of discrimination and promoting gender equality, diversity and inclusion for migrant workers in South-East Asia’s blue economy.

Labour migration

Ship to Shore Rights South-East Asia: Safe migration for decent work in the blue economy – Institutional capacity-building curriculum

This curriculum provides a practical and adaptable framework to strengthen the institutional capacities of organizations working to promote safe labour migration, protect migrant workers’ rights and advance decent work in South-East Asia’s blue...

Labour migration

Ship to Shore Rights South-East Asia: Safe migration for decent work in the blue economy – Stakeholder institutional capacity-building...

This strategy provides a framework for strengthening the institutional capacity of organizations supporting migrant workers in South-East Asia’s fishing, aquaculture and seafood processing sectors.

Youth employment

Youth employment takes centre stage in Viet Nam’s future of work

As Viet Nam’s world of work undergoes profound transformation, ensuring young people can access productive and decent work requires looking beyond unemployment figures to job quality, informality and school-to-work transitions.

Kenya's tourism sector skills assessment

Skills gap assessment in tourism sector that are key to promoting inclusive decent employment and productive livelihood in Nakuru, Narok...

This assessment identifies the skills needed to make Kenya's tourism sector more market-responsive and to expand inclusive, decent employment in Nakuru, Narok and Kajiado counties.

Combating Child Labour programme in Egypt

Code of conduct for the training and employment of children: Guidance for companies and enterprises in Egypt

This code of conduct offers a practical guidance tool for companies and enterprises operating in Egypt to support the responsible regulation of children's training and employment.

ILO Voices | Refugee inclusion

I am starting over, one repair at a time

After seeking safety in Egypt, Sudanese asylum seeker Alhassan Ali participated in ILO business training. It strengthened his entrepreneurship skills and helped him build a more stable future for his family.

Entrepreneurship and AI

An AI business adviser in your pocket: What we are learning from the ILO’s SABY pilot

The ILO is piloting SABY, a WhatsApp-based AI business adviser designed to give entrepreneurs practical, continuous support. Early experience across Africa shows how entrepreneurs are using AI to solve everyday business challenges, from improving...

Decent work in coffee

ILO takes decent work push across Ethiopia’s coffee heartlands

The ILO is expanding its decent work push across Ethiopia’s coffee heartlands, equipping stakeholders in Sidama and South Ethiopia with practical knowledge on labour law, working conditions, wages, productivity and social dialogue. Following...

Decent Work at the heart of East Africa’s future

As Caroline Khamati Mugalla, Director of the ILO Country Office for the United Republic of Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, reflects on the months of June, July and August, she is struck by the scale of ambition across the countries the...

Five years of partnership on social security in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

The Kurdistan Region, ILO and European Union mark five years of major social security reform and set priorities for the next phase of joint work.

Just transition

Geologist shapes a just transition, sustainable energy in the Philippines

A female geologist, supervisor, and union leader champions a just transition within the Philippines' geothermal sector to ensure a sustainable future for workers and the environment.

Just energy transition

Preparing East Kalimantan, Indonesia’s future workforce for a just transition

As East Kalimantan navigates the transition towards a greener economy, the ILO and BPVP Samarinda explore the skills, jobs and opportunities emerging from Indonesia’s just energy transition.

Decent work country programme

Iraq launches a four-year programme for better jobs, skills and social protection

New Decent Work Country Programme shifts the focus from recovery to long-term labour market development, with priorities spanning employment, economic diversification, workers’ rights and social protection.

Labour migration and free movement

Beyond the headlines: ILO and IGAD strengthen media professionals’ skills to report on regional integration, free movement of persons and...

Journalists across the IGAD region have strengthened their skills to report on labour migration, free movement and regional integration with greater accuracy, evidence and a stronger focus on migrant workers’ rights and dignity.

Strengthening Africa's skills systems

From Vision to Action: ILO support advances Africa’s Continental TVET Strategy

The ILO is helping African countries turn the Continental TVET Strategy 2025–2034 into practical reforms that strengthen skills systems, connect training with labour market needs and expand pathways to decent work. At the Addis Ababa conference on...

Equality@Work

Jordan moves towards a unified national mechanism to increase women’s labour force participation

The Ministry of Labour, the International Labour Organization and national partners are advancing an institutional framework to align efforts and data and track the impact of policies and programmes aimed at increasing women’s economic participation...