News, articles and events on youth employment

January 2022

  1. The 12th Academy on the Social and Solidarity Economy - Elective 8: SSE: youth, education and new skills

    31 January 2022

April 2021

  1. Amaal Bani Awwad, National Project Coordinator at ILO Jordan

    21 April 2021

    COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. It highlights their contributions, and shares highlights of their experiences, current work, and future aspirations.

December 2020

  1. ILO COOP participates in the distance learning course on “Youth entrepreneurship: programs and measures for promotion youth entrepreneurship” organized by ITC-ILO

    08 December 2020

    The session on “Experiences and development of social and solidarity economy (SSE) entrepreneurship” was held virtually on 18 November 2020 to discuss the principles of the SSE and how they can be used as a tool to support decent work and foster employment for youth

March 2020

  1. ILO Local Employment Partnership creates new jobs for youth in Southern Moldova

    05 March 2020

    The Local Employment Partnership (LEP) implemented by ILO reached out to 600 young NEETs (youth neither in employment, education or training) in the Cahul region. 282 of them already registered as unemployed to benefit from active labour market measures. To date, this partnership created 135 jobs, 20 start-ups and 2 cooperatives—additional small businesses and jobs are in the pipeline in this rural region where the rate of inactive youth is the highest in Moldova (25%).

February 2020

  1. ILO contributes to the Global Youth Forum Cooperative Entrepreneurship through a video message

    10 February 2020

    The message from ILO COOP Unit Manager focused on the current concerns around youth employment and the role cooperatives can play in creating work opportunities and better working conditions for youth.

November 2019

  1. ILO COOP sends a message of support for a Local Workshop of Young European Cooperators’ Network

    19 November 2019

June 2019

  1. Roll-out of Think.Coop continues in Turkey, now also extending to rural areas

    28 June 2019

    ILO’s Think.Coop training tool has been rolled out in Turkey by Youth Deal Cooperative - Turkey’s first youth-led social cooperative that aims to provide sustainable employment solutions for disadvantaged groups including youth.

February 2019

  1. A youth cooperative launched to develop the honey value chain in northwestern Tunisia

    26 February 2019

July 2018

  1. ILO participates in an international forum on cooperative development in the Pacific Islands

    09 July 2018

    The Director of the ILO Office for Pacific Islands presented the work of the ILO on cooperatives to promote decent work at an international forum on cooperative development in the Pacific region.

November 2017

  1. Japan Workers’ Co-operative Union: Contributing to job creation and local community development through associated work

    28 November 2017

    "Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue ILO interviewed Mr Osamu Nakano, a board member and Chief of International Relation Unit of Japan Workers’ Co-operative Union (JWCU).