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  1. Publication

    Case Brief #14: Kifiya Financial Technology

    03 December 2018

    Kifiya Financial Technology is a digital service provider that provides electronic, branch-less banking and mobile money services in Ethiopia. Kifiya offers a range of fintech products, including agriculture and livestock insurance. This brief focuses on its agriculture index insurance product.

  2. Publication

    Case Brief #13: The future of Impact Insurance

    03 December 2018

    The ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility is celebrating ten years of supporting the insurance industry to contribute to social and economic development. Over this period, we have grown and evolved alongside the industry. Markets, products, players and technology have drastically changed during the past decade. Now that we have looked back, it is time to scan the horizon and see what lies ahead. This review considers future trends, and the work that the ILO is doing, and could be doing, to enable the insurance industry to contribute to the sustainable development agenda in the coming years.

  3. Publication

    Case Brief #12: Equity Insurance Agency

    03 December 2018

    Equity Insurance Agency (EIA) is a subsidiary of the Equity Group, a large financial services conglomerate headquartered in Nairobi with over 12 million customers in 6 countries. The insurance agency was established with the objective of addressing the insurance needs of Kenyans across a wide range of income levels. The agency partners with insurance companies to offer a wide range of insurance products through a bancassurance model.

  4. Training

    Effective investment facilitation and sustainable development

    This five-day course will help investment promotion agencies to strengthen their investment promotion and facilitation capacities, expand their after-care services and, more broadly, enhance the development impacts of FDI flowing into their countries, particularly as regards the creation of more and better jobs. The course is run jointly by WAIPA (World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).

  5. Training

    International labour standards and corporate social responsibility: the labour dimension of human rights due diligence

    This five-day course aims to strengthen the capacity of participants to understand the principles of international labour standards as they relate to company operations (including due diligence related to labour rights) and how those principles can be most effectively implemented in company operations.

  6. Training

    Multinational enterprises, development and decent work: the approach of the MNE Declaration

    This five-day course will look at how governments, enterprises and the social partners are encouraged to each put policies in place and engage with each other through dialogue to maximize the positive contribution of multinational enterprises to socio economic development and decent work.

  7. Event

    2018 annual forum on Business and Human Rights

    This year’s Annual Forum on Business and human rights focused on Corporate human rights due diligence - emerging practices, challenges and ways forward. ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, spoke in the high-level panel “Building coherence and reaching scale on human rights due diligence – International organizations’ leadership perspectives” highlighting how the ILO is contributing to the business and human rights agenda as part of the broader decent work agenda and the need to scale up efforts in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

  8. Video

    MIG SCORE : Gender Equality module explained

    30 November 2018

    To counteract power imbalance and create conditions for equality and inclusion at the factory level, new and specific tools are needed. We designed a new SCORE Training Gender Equality module for supply chain development. The Gender Equality module focuses on five key issues: voice equality, inclusive hiring, equal pay for work of equal value, work climate, and work-life harmony. Taking into account the managerial and financial realities of SME’s, the eight-month training and technical assistance is divided into four steps, including a baseline assessment, manager-worker training, development of an Enterprise Improvement Plan (EIP) and expert enterprise visits to provide support and advice.

  9. News

    ILO COOP eNewsUpdate Issue No 11, November 2018

    30 November 2018

  10. News

    My.Coop – Building capacity of cooperatives towards involving Syrian refugees and Jordanian farmers in agricultural value chains

    29 November 2018

    My.Coop – Managing your agricultural cooperative training package was adapted to the Jordanian context and rolled out with cooperatives in northern Jordan to improve their capacities to help Syrian refugees and Jordanian farmers participate in income-generating activities.