Sweden – ILO Partnership

15 projects

Sweden currently funds 15 ILO development cooperation projects worldwide

10th in top 20

Sweden ranks 10th in the ILO list of voluntary funding contributors in 2024

US$ 61.3 million

Sweden has contributed US$ 61.3 million to ILO voluntary non-core funding in 2021-2024

Sweden is a key partner of the ILO in advancing decent work and social justice worldwide.

The ILO works closely with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency on ensuring a just transition, gender equality, providing youth, women, migrants and vulnerable individuals with decent jobs and labour rights worldwide, including in the construction sector, the textile industry and the green economy.

In addition to its contributions for specific programmes and projects, in 2022-23, Sweden contributed over US$ 1.5 million to the ILO Regular Budget Supplementary Account, allowing the Office to allocate these funds flexibly when and where they are most needed.

Furthermore, the ILO benefits from Swedish expertise through the country’s participation in the Junior Professional Officer programme.

For more information see Sweden Country portal.

Development Cooperation Dashboard

Development Cooperation Dashboard

Projects funded by Sweden

Highlights

Developing an impact monitoring system for Sweden’s guarantee instrument

Developing an impact monitoring system for Sweden’s guarantee instrument

Crisis management

Crisis management

Just transition

Just transition

Latest news

Making community tourism work better for the communities that host it
Maasai men leave the homestead as they speak with a woman who remains behind with a child, reflecting gendered patterns of mobility and care responsibilities in pastoral communities in Kenya

Community based tourism

Making community tourism work better for the communities that host it

Making hay last in Kajiado
Members of the Enape women’s group with Ilaramatak Cooperative Chairperson Paul Nchake outside their community hay store in Kajiado County.

A market systems development model

Making hay last in Kajiado

From feed outfit to business incubator
Workers at Nduwa Farms process and package silage into bales in Nakuru County

A market systems development model

From feed outfit to business incubator

Publications and documents

Sowing the seeds of change through private sector partnerships

ILO Brief

Sowing the seeds of change through private sector partnerships

Skills gap assessment in tourism sector that are key to promoting inclusive decent employment and productive livelihood in Nakuru, Narok...

Kenya's tourism sector skills assessment

Skills gap assessment in tourism sector that are key to promoting inclusive decent employment and productive livelihood in Nakuru, Narok...

Can digital services help tackle the extension service dilemma?

Can digital services help tackle the extension service dilemma?

Ongoing projects

Building Resilient and Care-Supportive Workplaces through Equality and Care

Care@Work Türkiye:

Building Resilient and Care-Supportive Workplaces through Equality and Care

Trade for jobs Uganda
An artificial insemination specialist stands outside a cooperative dairy facility in Kayunga, Uganda, demonstrating livestock breeding equipment to farmers. Several insulated storage containers and transport canisters used for artificial insemination are displayed alongside packaging boxes, while an educational banner showing dairy cattle genetics and trait information stands in the background.

Trade for jobs Uganda