News

Trade unions take actions to promote gender-balanced workplace for SMEs

24 September 2021

The ILO’s SCORE Programme in Indonesia collaborated with trade union confederations, through a series of gender equality trainings, to assist Indonesian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in creating equal opportunities for women and men at work.

Webinar

Training Equitably: Gender-Sensitive Approaches to Supporting Women in Business

Article

A young entrepreneur builds an innovative business from traditional food

23 September 2021

As part of the joint UN programme, the ILO provides an entrepreneurship training to help youth and other vulnerable groups to build and improve their businesses in the midst of pandemic.

ILO in action

Entrepreneurship skills for Venezuelan migrants and refugees

15 September 2021

ILO Chief technical advisor, María Olave, explains how the ILO has provided entrepreneurship training to Venezuelan migrants and refugees in Ecuador and Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic. Well over five million Venezuelans have become refugees and migrants in recent years, the majority of whom are living in neighbouring countries in Latin America.

Publication

Documenting the achievements of the EESE programme in Mozambique

14 September 2021

A case study of the pilot project “Resilient Business in Beira”

© ILO/Stephen Opio 2021

News

PROSPECTS Uganda: Dutch envoy inspired by refugees in Nakivale Settlement

06 September 2021

Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Uganda met with young refugees at the country’s oldest refugee settlement, and examined impact of ILO's entrepreneurship training programme, implemented with the support of PROSPECTS.

COVID-19 and the World of Work

From Volcanoes to Cultural Trade

31 August 2021

Sandrine Wallez is the founder of ‘Alternative Communities Trade In Vanuatu’ - ACTIV. A former volcanologist, she speaks to us about her role in the UN’s Informal Economies Recovery Project and the current state of the cultural and creative industry in Vanuatu

COVID-19 and the World of Work

IFAD statement for the August edition of the MPTF Informal Economies Recovery Project Monthly Newsletter

31 August 2021

IFAD Country Director, Pacific Island States, Tawfiq El-Zabri

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Enterprises Monthly Newsletter

31 August 2021

News

Learning from the best: ILO’s SCORE and APINDO’s digital Master Class series attract 350 businesses from the culinary and fashion industries

26 August 2021

In cooperation with the Indonesian Employers’ Association (APINDO), the ILO’s SCORE Programme provided digital trainings to assist hundreds of culinary and fashion micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to maintain their productivity during the pandemic.