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Impact and people

2016

  1. © Romel Jacinto 2022

    Informal workers’ rights have a home in Costa Rica and El Salvador

    26 July 2016

    An ILO-supported project aims to counsel informal workers and establish institutional partnerships to create collective strategies to promote workers’ transition from the informal to the formal economy.

2009

  1. One dinner that changed thousands of lives

    27 October 2009

    Last month, the Salvadoran NGO Agape was awarded the Social Entrepreneurship Award 2009 for Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic. The prize, presented by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, recognizes Agape’s contribution to improving the lives of thousands of poor Salvadorans as well as its leadership and innovation in applying a successful business model.