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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...

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.

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...

Technical and vocational education and training

Certified, confident, ready: Timor-Leste’s TVET trainers step forward

Seventy-five trainers graduated from competency-based training in Dili. For two of them, the experience changed not only how they teach, but also how they see themselves as trainers.

Better Work Egypt

Building stronger workplaces through partnership

When Eroğlu Garments began garment manufacturing in Egypt, the newly established factory had an opportunity to build strong workplace systems from the start. Working with Better Work Egypt, the factory is strengthening internal capacity,...

Field story

Clear waters, bright futures: Community action restores life and dignity following Cyclone Ditwah

Support from the ILO and the Japan SSN Fund have helped restore vital water infrastructure and strengthen community-led resilience in Sri Lanka.

Podcast

Why is life becoming harder to afford despite economic growth?

Economic growth and rising productivity don’t automatically translate into better jobs and higher incomes. ILO Chief Economist Sangheon Lee explains why many workers are not seeing the benefits and what can be done to share the gains from growth...

Green skills

Green skills support construction workers in the Philippines

A pilot training on green construction skills in the Philippines is helping participants like Michelle Meñez turn sustainability concepts into practical knowledge that can reach construction workers and support their livelihoods.

Niger expands opportunities for its leather and hides sector in Italy

Market opportunities, partnerships to explore and technological solutions identified: the Nigerien mission to Italy is bolstering the prospects for modernising the leather and hides sector, boosting competitiveness and creating decent jobs.

ILO Voices | Women’s economic empowerment

Together, as cashew farmers, we have a stronger voice in the market

With ILO support, cashew farmer Putuli Kheyang now leads a cooperative in rural Bangladesh, helping women gain new skills, confidence and better access to markets.

ILOSTAT Blog

New standards for better evidence on the world of work

From unpaid work to the informal economy, new international statistical standards are helping capture a more complete picture of the world of work. Through concrete examples, we look at what these standards allow us to see and understand that...

Article

How virtual reality is helping Uganda's youth prepare for the world of work

At the Uganda National Youth Opportunity and Innovation Conference 2026, young people explored how virtual reality can help them develop workplace skills, build confidence and prepare for employment through the ILO-supported Workverse initiative.

Social protection

Burkina Faso lays the foundations for more inclusive universal health coverage

The achievements of the “Building Social Protection Floors for All” project are helping to sustainably strengthen the Universal Health Insurance Scheme and prepare for its extension to workers in the informal economy and their families in Burkina...

Issue 26

Quarterly social security policy monitor, July - September 2026

The quarterly social security policy monitor is produced by the ILO under the EU-China project “Improving China’s institutional capacity towards universal social protection (Phase III)”. It captures latest social security policy development in...

Podcast

How Africa can bridge the gap between training and jobs

STREAM

Oman launches dialogue with diplomatic missions to strengthen migrant workers’ access to social protection

The Social Protection Fund of Oman and the ILO brought diplomatic missions and national institutions together to support the implementation of social protection reforms for migrant workers.

Our impact, their voices

Safer work takes root on Indonesia’s coffee farms

Simple solutions, gradual changes and local support are helping coffee farmers in Lampung, Indonesia, work more safely through a programme supported by the ILO and Nestlé Indonesia.

Digital skills and AI

AI training helps turn technical skills into enterprise opportunities

The ILO’s AI training under a UN joint programme in the Philippines is helping trainers and vocational learners turn the skills they already have into new businesses, better livelihoods and opportunities for themselves and their communities.