News and events
2015
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Enhancing Zambian SMEs' competitiveness and access to finance: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
The African Management Services Company (AMSCO) helps African companies to become globally competitive, profitable and sustainable – it provides selected private companies and commercially operated public enterprises with professional management and related services.
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Making globalization socially sustainable: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Research Foundation, the International Labour Office (ILO), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) established collaboration to bring together the world's leading academic experts on globalization. They included Dani Rodrik of Harvard University, Nina Pavcnik of Dartmouth College, and Ludger Woessmann of the University of Munich. The result was a publication that provides insights into the links between globalization and (i) employment; (ii) uncertainty; and (iii) inequality.
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Microinsurance Innovation Facility: Catalyzing protection of the working poor: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
The ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility was launched in 2008. Generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Z Zurich Foundation, and Munich Re has made it possible to dramatically expand the outreach of insurance services to low-income households and enterprises, strengthen insurance providers and ensure that better risk management practices are more widely available.
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Microinsurance Innovation Facility: Catalyzing protection of the working poor: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
The ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility was launched in 2008. Generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Z Zurich Foundation, and Munich Re has made it possible to dramatically expand the outreach of insurance services to low-income households and enterprises, strengthen insurance providers and ensure that better risk management practices are more widely available.
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Employment promotion following the earthquake in Mianzhu, Sichuan Province of China: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
In May 2008, an earthquake registering 8.0 on the Richter scale struck the Sichuan province in China. Official statistics state that over 45 million people were affected, including 69,163 deaths. Approximately 6.5 million homes were destroyed and many had to relocate. Around 30 million people lost the majority of their productive assets and almost 2 million people lost their livelihoods. Helping affected persons to develop new livelihoods and seek new sources of income in a new context was the most important need.
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Microfinance support programme in Viet Nam: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
Microfinance has played an important role in national, provincial and local efforts to reduce poverty over this period with over 300,000 regular clients of microfinance institutions. However, access to relevant and sustainable microfinance services (credit, savings, insurance, money transfers) remains a challenge. The microfinance industry in Viet Nam still needs investments in all aspects for further development – at all levels.
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Women's Entrepreneurship Development in Yemen: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
The Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Service (SMEPS), Yemen’s national agency promoting small and micro-enterprises and a subsidiary of the Social Fund for Development, recently embarked on an initiative to economically empower women and to facilitate their access to microfinance by building their capacity to open a business or to improve existing ones. It entered into a contractual agreement with the Soul for Development Organization, the SEEDS Institute, the Bena’a Consultancy and Training Institute and the Impact Institute, to deliver business management training. This training targeted existing and potential women entrepreneurs in order to build further links with microfinance institutions. Given ILO’s experience in enterprise development in general and women entrepreneurship specifically, SMEPS approached the ILO to extend its technical assistance in this field.
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Women's Entrepreneurship Development (WED) in South Africa - The Abafazi Incubator Project: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
Well designed partnerships are essential to developing women's entrepreneurship through their unique ability to mobilize funds, ensure the sustainability and use of ILO tools and approaches, and generate new opportunities to collaborate.
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Youth-to-Youth Fund - Improving work opportunities for young people in the Mano River Union: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
Aimed at youth-led organizations in Guinea, the ILO Youth Employment Network, in collaboration with UNIDO, FCP, and the World Bank, launched a competitive grant scheme. The call was for innovative small-scale youth employment projects, and supported young people in their transition from being passive recipients to active participants in the creation of employment and the impact this can have on the promotion of peace. Successful applicants were awarded a grant of between USD 5,000 and 20,000 in tandem with the provision of capacity building assistance in order to support project implementation.
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Support to the Yemeni Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour in Labour Market Information and Employment Policy: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
In 2006, the ILO and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) helped Yemen formulate a Labour Market Information System and Human Resource Development Strategy. Based on this framework, a project was launched to enhance Yemen’s capacity in statistical research, labour market monitoring, and policy-oriented analysis, laying the groundwork for making timely and reliable labour market information generally available.
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Entrepreneurship education: Know About Business (KAB) in Yemen: Public-Private Partnership
06 October 2015
To contribute to employment creation and economic growth by fostering an enterprise culture in Yemen, the ILO introduced its Know About Business (KAB) programme in technical and vocational education in the country.