News and events
2015
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Public-private partnership
ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility and Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSDA) partner to change management for better impact insurance
02 November 2015
Partnership will support insurers to provide valuable and scalable insurance solutions to low-income households and SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Publication
TAQEEM Fund for youth employment evaluation (Phase I & II) - A partnership to promote results-based monitoring and evaluation for youth employment in the MENA region: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
Taqeem (meaning “evaluation” in Arabic) has been implemented in two phases. The first phase worked with 15 youth employment organizations and initiatives reaching approximately 15,000 young people a year as part of a competitively selected Community of Practice (CoP) to improve their capacity to measure and monitor the impact of their programmes. This was achieved firstly through “Evaluation Clinics” which taught CoP members the key steps for impact evaluation and equipped them with enhanced, low-cost, high-impact monitoring and evaluation tools and small grants. The development of a web-based knowledge sharing platform and dissemination campaigns supported the reporting of successes and challenges to stakeholders and raised project profiles. Finally, organizations with positive results developed and conducted randomized control trail studies to show the impact of their programmes.
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Publication
Building capacity for social compliance of investments in African agriculture: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
The partner in this PPP, AATIF, is an investment fund that emerged through a public-private partnership initiated by the KfW Development Bank on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and Deutsche Bank. It aims to realize the potential of Africa’s agriculture for the benefit of the poor. AATIF pursues a private sector approach addressing the specific needs of the agricultural sector in a market-oriented way, while its social and environmental management system and strong governance structure with an independent compliance advisor ensure a positive development impact.
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Publication
Economically Empowering the HIV Vulnerable Population along Transport Corridors in Tanzania
21 September 2015
The ILO, together with the Savings and Credit Cooperative League of Tanzania (SCCULT), multiple private sector partners (such as savings and credit cooperative societies (SACCOs), the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Tanzania, the Employers’ Association, and trade unions addressed this challenge. Since 2011 the ILO has managed an HIV and AIDS vulnerability reduction pro-gramme along Tanzania’s transport corri-dors of Chalinze, Ilula, Mafinga, Makambako, Tunduma and Kyela.
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Publication
Voluntary HIV Counselling and Testing (VCT) at Work in Mozambique
21 September 2015
Since 2006 the International Labour Organization (ILO) has been supporting stakeholders in the world of work to better respond to HIV and AIDS in Mozambique. Actions encompass scaling up access to HIV prevention and care through the workplace, increasing the demand for VCT, taking into account the gender-specific needs of women and men, as well as economically empowering groups such as women, young people and people working in the informal economy that are particularly vulnerable to HIV.
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Publication
Preventing HIV in Ethiopia: The Mulu Worksites Project
21 September 2015
The MULU Worksites project is a USAID/PEPFAR-funded project managed by World Learning Ethiopia in partnership with FHI 360, Population Service International (PSI), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The project seeks to implement gender-responsive workplace HIV combination prevention programmes that will strengthen the HIV response in large-scale workplaces employing over 500 persons. The construction, agriculture, leather, cement, mining and manufacturing sectors are a vital entry point for combination prevention, as they employ women and men engaged in high-risk behaviours such as commercial and transactional sex, and multiple concurrent partnerships.
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Press release
Investing in Youth & Ensuring Decent Jobs
14 July 2015
To mark the first annual World Youth Skills Day, the United Nations will host two key events on 15 July including a special side event at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa.
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Press release
Financing Development through Decent Work
10 July 2015
ILO and Sweden partner to host a joint side event aiming at stimulating a dialogue on how decent work can help achieve sustainable development and the type of global partnership needed to make it a reality.
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Press release
ILO to support post-Ebola recovery effort in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
06 July 2015
The International Labour Organization will take part to the Ebola Recovery Conference in New York on 10 July to galvanize support and ensure a healthier and safer future of the world of work in the three hard-hit West-African countries.
2014
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Women entrepreneurs
Better skills mean boosted profits for Somali women
24 June 2014
The ILO is helping women in Somaliland develop successful enterprises by providing them with the right skills.