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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...
A market systems development model
The silage business helping other businesses grow
An established enterprise in Narok is testing whether it can help new silage businesses enter the fodder market and bring quality feed closer to livestock farmers.
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 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...
Community development
EU-Funded PROSPER Project in Belize brings local economic development closer to action
In August, work-based learning, community planning and women’s entrepreneurship activities within the European Union-funded PROSPER project advanced practical preparations for locally-led economic development in southern Belize.
Just energy transition
Learning from the ILO: Looking at skills development through the lens of a Just Energy Transition
An ILO workshop on a just energy transition, organized with Airlangga University, has given a government skills development official a new perspective on how training can prepare people to learn, adapt and grow with change.
New Trainers Association builds national capacity for enterprise development in Timor-Leste
Through the European Union-funded Agroforestry Skills for Employment and Resilience in Timor-Leste Programme, the ILO supports a new Trainers Association that strengthens collaboration and national capacity for entrepreneurship and enterprise...
Quality apprenticeship
Tonga launches its first-ever National Apprenticeship Policy with ILO support
New policy aims to strengthen pathways from education and training to employment and support the development of a skilled and resilient workforce across the Pacific nation.
New cooperatives strengthen livelihoods and opportunities in Timor-Leste
Two newly established cooperatives in Timor-Leste bring communities together to share skills, pool resources and build stronger pathways to markets and sustainable livelihoods.
Labour migration
Thailand’s seafood sector strengthens supervisory skills to support decent work for migrant workers
Training initiative draws on ILO’s garment sector experience to equip frontline staff with skills needed to strengthen responsible business practices across the sector.
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Powering Moldova’s green future: The story of Ariadna Pralea, Student of Renewable Energy
A young woman in Moldova is turning skills training into a career in renewable energy, as an ILO project funded by Liechtenstein and Austria helps modernize vocational education and prepare a new generation of workers for the country’s green...
Kenya's fodder sector skills assessment
Skills gap assessment in the fodder sector that promotes inclusive decent employment and productive livelihood in Nakuru, Narok and Kajiado...
This assessment identifies the skills needed to strengthen Kenya’s fodder value chain and expand inclusive, decent employment in Nakuru, Narok and Kajiado counties.
Just energy transition
Entrepreneurship skills help communities in Indonesia build new livelihoods beyond coal
Through the ILO's Regional Innovation Initiative for a Just Energy Transition (IKI-JET), three trainers are helping workers and communities in Indonesia build new livelihoods through entrepreneurship.
Iraq finalizes design of the 2026 National Labour Force Survey
Survey will provide reliable and internationally comparable national data to support development of labour market policies.
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