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April 2021
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Disability and work
Now I know the great feeling of having decent work
16 April 2021
Jordanian Omar Abu Noa’aj has struggled to find work for years due to his physical disability. Last year, an ILO employment centre helped him secure his first formal job at a garment factory, giving him a new sense of independence and purpose.
February 2021
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Article
How the ILO can support vital public employment programmes during the COVID-19 crisis
10 February 2021
Public employment programmes have played an increasingly important role in government responses to the COVID-19 crisis. In this article, Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song, ILO Specialist on the Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) sheds light on new, innovative approaches being used to assist countries like Uzbekistan in supporting their PWPs during the pandemic, resulting in temporary work for almost 500,000 women and men in 2020 – nearly twice as many jobs as those created before the pandemic.
October 2019
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ILO What Works Research Brief No. 14
Expanding Access To Unemployment Benefits And Active Support To Cover Informal Workers
16 October 2019
Combining income support with active labour market policies (ALMPs) is a viable strategy for helping unemployed people while they look for work. However, access to such programmes in developing and emerging countries (where they exist) tends to be restricted to formal sector workers. New evidence from the Mauritian unemployment benefit scheme demonstrates the value of expanding access to cover informal workers as well.
September 2018
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Article
Kazakhstan: Parliamentary Hearings on Labour Market and Youth Employment
28 September 2018
On 28 September the Kazakhstan’s Parliament held hearings, titled “Problems and prospects of development of the employment sphere,” on 28th September. The participants discussed the current state of the labour market, employment, and formalization of self-employed population in Kazakhstan as well as methods to further develop employment of the country in the current context.
December 2017
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Youth employment
Changing lives through better employment services in Cambodia and Lao PDR
22 December 2017
Thanks to an ILO/China South South cooperation project, people like Phatt Veng and Vatsana Latthaphon can benefit from the improved employment services in their countries. Their lives have changed for the better.
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Labour migration
A guide to fair recruitment of migrant labour (long version)
18 December 2017
To tackle abusive and fraudulent recruitment practices, the ILO has developed general principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment of migrant labour. These guidelines help inform the work of the ILO, other organisations, national legislatures and the social partners to promote and ensure fair recruitment.
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Labour migration
A guide to fair recruitment of migrant labour (short version)
18 December 2017
To tackle abusive and fraudulent recruitment practices, the ILO has developed general principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment of migrant labour. These guidelines help inform the work of the ILO, other organizations, national legislatures and the social partners to promote and ensure fair recruitment.
August 2016
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Stories from the field
Keeping them home: How improving public employment services helps people find jobs and stay with their families
16 August 2016
In Nepal, the Labour Market Information and Employment Services (LIfE) project, funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), helps to improve access to basic information and services that can help job seekers, in particular youth, make well-informed choices about education, training, and employment.
May 2016
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Jobs in Latin America
Latin American and Caribbean unemployment to rise in 2016
11 May 2016
The evolution of labour markets in the region will be analyzed at ECLAC’s thirty-sixth session, to be held in Mexico this month.
September 2012
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Statement
Promoting longer life and ensuring work ability
19 September 2012
Address by Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director for Employment (ILO), at UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) Ministerial Conference on Ageing - Vienna, Austria.