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

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...

The silage business helping other businesses grow
Titus Kariuki of Tiddy Fodder Farm trains participants on fodder production and storage in Narok County. © Tidy Farm

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.

ILO takes decent work push across Ethiopia’s coffee heartlands
Participants actively participating in the discussion.

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
A message from Director Mugalla

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
Participants and representatives during the five-year partnership event on social security in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

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.

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

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.

Iraq launches a four-year programme for better jobs, skills and social protection
Representatives of the Government of Iraq, the Conference of Trade Union Federations and Unions in Iraq, the Iraqi Federation of Industries and the ILO sign Iraq’s new Decent Work Country Programme.

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.

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

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.

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

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...

Jordan moves towards a unified national mechanism to increase women’s labour force participation
Workers at a food-processing factory in Irbid, Jordan, during an ILO visit to conduct a legal awareness session, 23 August 2026.

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...

EU-Funded PROSPER Project in Belize brings local economic development closer to action
A large group photograph of approximately 25 to 30 people posing outside the entrance of a building. The diverse group of men and women are dressed in casual and business-casual attire, including brightly coloured t-shirts, polo shirts, and button-downs, and are organized in multiple rows facing the camera.

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.

Learning from the ILO: Looking at skills development through the lens of a Just Energy Transition
Four people standing

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
A group of people

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...

Tonga launches its first-ever National Apprenticeship Policy with ILO support
A group of people poses at the official launch of Tonga’s National Apprenticeship Policy 2026–2030.

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
A group of people

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.

Thailand’s seafood sector strengthens supervisory skills to support decent work for migrant workers

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.

Powering Moldova’s green future: The story of Ariadna Pralea, Student of Renewable Energy
Young woman in front of solar panels wearing a hard hat

Video

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...

Skills gap assessment in the fodder sector that promotes inclusive decent employment and productive livelihood in Nakuru, Narok and Kajiado...
Skills gap assessment in the fodder sector that promotes inclusive decent employment and productive livelihood in Nakuru, Narok and Kajiado counties

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.

Entrepreneurship skills help communities in Indonesia build new livelihoods beyond coal
A group of people

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
Participants of the workshop to finalize and endorse the 2026 National Labour Force Survey. 10/8/2026

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.