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125 jeunes congolais accompagnés pour mieux accéder aux opportunités d’emploi

Avec l’appui du Bureau international du Travail (BIT), l’Office National de l’Emploi (ONEM) renforce l’accompagnement des jeunes demandeurs d’emploi et les capacités de ses conseillers en emploi, dans le cadre du Projet de développement du Corridor...

PROSPECTS Impact

In Sudan, young refugees turn community needs into business opportunities

Through the ILO PROSPECTS supported i-UPSHIFT programme, a group of young entrepreneurs in Kassala State transformed a local challenge into a business opportunity, improving access to veterinary medicines for livestock farmers while creating...

Entrepreneurship and AI

Women entrepreneurs are already using Generative AI. Will they share in its gains?

New ILO survey evidence shows that women entrepreneurs are adopting GenAI quickly, but their ability to use it is shaped by the wider conditions in which they run their businesses.

ACCEL Africa Gender LABb: Turning gender equality commitments into action to address the root causes of child labour

The ILO's ACCEL Africa project brought together partners from six African countries to strengthen gender equality and non-discrimination in efforts to eliminate child labour. The initiative focused on addressing structural inequalities and...

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ILO expands decent work opportunities for returnees and communities in Syria

As Syrians return to their communities, the ILO is working with partners to help people rebuild livelihoods while strengthening institutions that can support a sustainable recovery.

Southern African Development Community launches Labour Market Observatory to strengthen evidence-based policymaking

With technical support from the International Labour Organization, the new regional platform will strengthen the use of comparable labour market data to inform employment and decent work policies across Southern Africa.

Decent work and Sustainable Development Goals

UN country team engages Tanzania’s parliament on development priorities and Decent Work

The engagement with the Speaker of the National Assembly highlighted opportunities for closer cooperation on Tanzania Development Vision 2050, the Sustainable Development Goals and international labour standards.

Youth Employment Promotion Project (YEPP)

Youth-led innovations improve workplaces through the SCORE Youth Innovation Challenge

Young employees from Mongolia’s cashmere and hospitality sectors developed and implemented practical solutions to real workplace challenges through the SCORE Youth Innovation Challenge 2026.

Promoting care at work

Workplace childcare helps working mothers stay focused and enterprises retain workers in Ethiopia

At Hilina Enriched Foods PLC, an on-site daycare centre is helping working mothers balance care responsibilities with their jobs. The company says absenteeism and staff turnover among mothers using the centre have fallen, while trained care workers...

ILO Voices | Care economy

I created the childcare service I had needed

After struggling as a working parent when her children were small, Mariana Grigorenco knew exactly the kind of childcare facility she wanted to create for her community. An ILO training programme and grant helped her to achieve her objective.

PROSPECTS Impact

ILO strengthens local skills systems for refugees and host communities in Ethiopia

Support to Dabat TVET College is improving access to market-relevant skills training for refugees and host communities in northern Ethiopia, while strengthening local capacity to deliver training over the longer term.

From recognition to action: Strengthening India’s care economy

On the International Day of Care and Support, we highlight ILO’s work to recognize unpaid care, strengthen skills and social protection, and promote the rights and representation of care workers in India.

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Bridging textbooks and labour rights: how two law educators are transforming classrooms in Bangladesh

Bangladesh's labour law classrooms are usually built around the legal texts. Two academicians decided that was not enough and started using their classrooms to bring in international perspective and close the gap between what the law says and what...

Blog

Data and labour inspection for formalization: lessons from the exchange between Paraguay and Spain

A study visit provided an opportunity to learn how coordination between labour registries, social security systems, information exchange and labour inspection can help facilitate employment formalization and expand access to social protection.

Trade for Decent Work Project in Mongolia - Phase 2

Young people in western Mongolia strengthen awareness of labour rights and decent work

More than 100 young people in three western provinces gained practical knowledge of their rights and responsibilities at work through ILO training, highlighting the importance of labour rights education and social dialogue in supporting the...

Employment impact measurement

Financial institutions explore new approaches to measuring employment impacts of investments

Representatives from leading financial institutions gathered in Turin to explore how stronger project-level data collection can strengthen employment impact measurement and support investments that generate decent work.

Recognition of Prior Learning

ILO-backed skills recognition opens new career pathways for workers in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Recognition of Prior Learning is helping experienced workers at Kobel Industries in Bahir Dar gain formal certification, advance in their careers and improve their incomes, demonstrating how stronger collaboration between skills institutions,...

Podcast

Is it harder for young people to find a job?

Global youth unemployment is rising and AI is reshaping entry-level roles. In this episode of the Future of Work podcast, we analyze the 2026 trends with Sara Elder, the lead author of the 2026 ILO Global Employment Trends for Youth report. Joined...

Decent job creation

Global forum explores how investments can generate more and better jobs

Experts, governments, financial institutions, social partners and development institutions gathered in Turin at the Global Forum on Employment Impact Assessments for Decent Work to discuss how Employment Impact Assessments can help ensure...

Skills and Lifelong Learning in Africa

Africa strengthens pathways from training to decent work

At Africa Skills Week 2026 in Harare, the International Labour Organization highlighted how stronger training systems can connect learning with decent work, productivity, and inclusive industrial transformation.