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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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

South-South Cooperation

Indonesia and Timor-Leste strengthen cooperation on labour dispute resolution

Through South-South Cooperation, representatives of Timor-Leste’s government, employers and workers learned from Indonesia’s experience and strengthened their practical mediation skills.

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.

Article

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...

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...

Decent Work

Rwanda updated employment policy puts implementation at the centre

Rwanda’s ambition under Vision 2050 and the National Strategy for Transformation 2 is clear, to build a more prosperous, inclusive and productive economy, with decent and productive employment at the centre of national transformation.

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,...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.