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  1. Project documentation

    Agenda: Gender equality at the workplace

    19 August 2021

    Boosting your organizational performance by advancing equal opportunities

  2. © ILO 2021

    Voices

    A blooming business for a young entrepreneur

    12 August 2021

    Taking every business training opportunity she could find, 25-year-old Mariam Kobalia has developed a thriving business in Georgia running a flower shop and growing roses in her own greenhouses.

  3. International Youth Day

    ILO training provides refugee with tools to start his own company

    12 August 2021

    Dawit Gebre Yohannes, an Eritrean refuge in Ethiopia, took part in the ILO's flagship Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) training (delivered in partnership with the regional NGO, ZOA), the world’s largest entrepreneurship development programme. He now has a ready-to-implement business plan and dreams of running his own software company.

  4. International Youth Day

    With the right business training, Ethiopian youth can turn their dreams into reality

    12 August 2021

    Tsehaynesh Birhanu, who lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, wanted to prove she could be a success. She joined the ILO Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) training (delivered in partnership with the regional NGO, ZOA), the world’s largest entrepreneurship development programme. She now feels anything is possible and encourages others to embrace their dreams and start their own businesses.

  5. Our impact, their voices

    Young female entrepreneur strives to transform the medical sector in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    12 August 2021

    Nasreen Hassan, who recently took part in ILO’s Start Your Business (SYB) training programme, explains how her business idea to advance medical engineering can change lives and create employment in Iraq.

  6. Press release

    Businesses struggle to build back from the Beirut blast

    10 August 2021

    A year on from the blast that devastated large parts of Beirut, the ILO is working to help small businesses across the Lebanese capital affected by the explosion. Many were already struggling to survive due to COVID-19 anti-infection measures and the ongoing economic and political crisis in the country.

  7. Video

    ILO promotes entrepreneurship among Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees in Lebanon

    03 August 2021

    The ILO has trained over 650 women and men on its My First Business entrepreneurship training programme, aimed at promoting livelihoods and decent job creation in the agriculture and agro-food sectors.

  8. Our impact, Their voices

    Decent work along the supply chains: Nurturing women’s entrepreneurship in Nepal

    03 August 2021

    A step towards formalization of women-led, small and micro home-based enterprises in Nepal’s supply chains helps business and workers alike.

  9. Document

    Terms of Reference / Request for Proposals : Enabling Environment, lessons learnt in the African Union

    27 July 2021

  10. Document

    Terms of Reference: EESE for Fragile Contexts

    27 July 2021

    In the frame of its work on the Enabling Environment for Sustainable Enterprises (EESE), and Job for Peace and Resilience, the ILO is looking for a consultant to develop a a Guidance note on how to conduct EESE assessment in fragile contexts, considering both the conditions for improving the enabling environment and the process to conduct assessment. Key considerations will be the inclusion of peace-responsiveness and resilience building elements. Details relating to the scope of work, methodology and expected deliverables are available in the Terms of Reference . Expressions of interest for undertaking this assignment, including a CV, a technical and financial proposal, should be submitted to sme@ilo.org and cspr@ilo.org by August 21, 2021.