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  1. Global Learning Exchange Series on Digital Wage Payments

    Promoting workers’ well-being and sustainable enterprises through digital wage payments: Experiences from the garment industry in Jordan and Egypt

    The ILO's Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work, the Better Than Cash Alliance, Better Work and BSR organized an online event on 23 March, "Promoting workers’ well-being and sustainable enterprises through digital wage payments: Experiences from the garment industry in Jordan and Egypt".

  2. Publication

    Social Finance Brief: Segurísimo

    15 March 2022

    Segurísimo is a low-cost insurance product, developed by Seguros Mundial in 2020 and aimed at the vulnerable, rural or traditionally excluded people in Colombia. This brief gives a history of the development and characteristics of this inclusive insurance initiative.

  3. Event

    Make change happen: Getting insurers ready to serve low income and emerging markets

    The ILO's Impact Insurance Facility and the Financial Services Institute (linked to the Financial Regulatory Authority of Egypt) will organize the training "Make change happen: Getting insurers ready to serve low income and emerging markets" on 17 and 18 May via Zoom. The language of instruction is English. The course is offered with support from the German Corporation for International Cooperation.

  4. Article

    Paving the road to financial inclusion for rural workers in Nepal

    10 March 2022

    In remote areas of Nepal, rural communities, and especially the most disadvantaged and marginalized groups, do not have access to formal financial services. However, the Strengthening National Rural Transport Programme took up the challenge of generating access to finance and improved livelihood opportunities for them, and succeeded in collaboration with MEGA Bank, one of Nepal’s largest commercial banks.

  5. Project

    Knowledge sharing and capacity building for agriculture and climate risk insurance

    08 March 2022

  6. Training

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

    This online course will look at the potential of enterprises to contribute to the achievement of decent work for all, a universal goal recognized in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It provides a comprehensive introduction the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration), and touches upon issues related to Business and International Labour Standards, Responsible Business Conduct (RBC), Human Right Due Diligence and social dialogue amongst others.

  7. Project

    Awareness raising and training for insurance against natural catastrophes in India

    08 March 2022

  8. Article

    Social Finance Podcast - Episode 5 - Jane Portas on 6 Moments That Matter & Insuring Women’s Futures

    08 March 2022

    Transcript for the Social Finance Podcast episode "Jane Portas on 6 Moments That Matter & Insuring Women’s Futures".

  9. Publication

    Post Covid-19 EESE assessment of MSME trends and policies in Armenia

    04 March 2022

    Republican Union of Employers of Armenia (RUEA), in line with its mandate to contribute to the development of a conducive environment for enterprises in Armenia, has called upon the ILO to assist the organization to assess the follow up analyses of the business environment in the country focusing on two specific topics – taxation system in Armenia, and Export, FDI and FDI-SME linkages.

  10. News

    Nepal appoints a national focal point for the promotion of the MNE Declaration

    02 March 2022

    Nepal is the second country in Asia to appoint a national focal point for the promotion of the MNE Declaration and the application of its principles.