News, articles and events on youth employment

Building better gender data for the future

20 October 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare not only inequalities in the world of work, including between women and men, but it has also further emphasised the gender data gaps that hamper our understanding of the depth, nature and evolution of those inequalities.
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Rural women: Key actors in poverty reduction and food security

15 October 2020

Despite playing a major role as farmers, wage earners and entrepreneurs, rural women face gender-based discrimination leading to unpaid work, as well as unequal access to education, healthcare, property, and financial services.

Can we achieve decent work for all by 2030?

22 February 2020

The ILO Department of Statistics has just fulfilled its SDG reporting duties for 2020. What the data show is not encouraging: at this pace, we won’t achieve decent work for all by 2030.

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.

Jobs and Skills Mismatch – Job-rich growth for Sustainable Development

On 27-28 November 2017, the Employment Policy Department will bring together researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders to review and discuss on-going research on demand for jobs and bottlenecks in developed and developing countries.

10th ILO Meeting of Caribbean Ministers of Labour: Realizing Decent Work under the 2030 Agenda

This year the Meeting will present an opportunity to have an exchange on the continuing challenge to promote a more inclusive and sustainable growth process with more and better jobs, as well as allow the Ministers to articulate and share their perspectives around the Future of Work, drawing from the national level dialogues that have occurred in the past year.

Azerbaijan hosts third round of peer review of youth employment policies

09 September 2015

As part of the project “Partnerships for Youth Employment in the Commonwealth of Independent States,” implemented by ILO and financed by Public Joint Stock Company LUKOIL, a Peer Review network focusing on youth employment policies was launched in 2014, with nine countries participating.

27 million Latin American and Caribbean youth in the informal economy

22 April 2015

The International Labour Organization (ILO) calls for urgent action to help youth in the region move from the informal to the formal economy.

ILO Regional Skills Programme: Regional training on employment services

This workshop is designed to provide opportunities for participating countries to improve their knowledge and strengthen their capacities on the operations and functioning of their public employment services as well as to expand their network to provide jobseekers with better opportunities for domestic and overseas employment.

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