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PROSPECTS podcast

Talent beyond borders: Why businesses should hire young refugees

Discover how businesses can unlock innovation and resilience by hiring young refugees. In this episode, Ingka Group’s Roman Bojko shares lessons from integrating refugee talent across 26 countries.

Emerging Insight: What is the impact of inclusive insurance on farmers’ production decisions?

Findings from a new systematic review of research studies on inclusive insurance.

Strengthening social protection to protect children in Kenya’s tea and coffee value chains

Kenya is strengthening social protection for tea and coffee producers and workers. From 4–7 November 2025, ACCEL Africa brought together national and county institutions, employers, and unions to develop coordinated action plans that reduce...

Impact story

Bringing income and inclusion: How poultry farming is empowering women in Kenya

In Kalobeyei, Kenya, Rithvan Kegehi — a host-community farmer in Turkana West — is turning a small flock into a steady household enterprise with support from ILO PROSPECTS and Sustainable Approaches for Community Empowerment (SAPCONE). Her work is...

RAAMP Nigeria Stakeholders’ Participation in the Engineering Procurement & Contract Management Training for World Bank funded Projects

Podcast

Can the Doha Summit revive global social justice?

In this episode of the Future of Work podcast, Claire Courteille-Mulder, Senior Adviser in the ILO’s Partnerships Department, discusses why the World Summit for Social Development comes at such a critical moment, what it means for global cooperation...

Finance nature, hire millions: How to create decent jobs from climate finance, starting in Kenya

A pioneering collaboration in Kenya shows how a proactive approach can maximize the employment benefits of climate and nature finance.

Labour Migration Governance in Focus: Youth and Media Engagement in Uganda

On the same day in Kampala, university students and journalists were pulled into the same conversation about labour migration from opposite ends, one through a public lecture at Makerere, the other through a media breakfast, each leaving better...

Child labour

Advancing action against child labour in the Philippines

A strengthened Monitoring and Evaluation Framework aims to advance action by tracking progress, enhancing accountability and supporting inclusive action to eliminate child labour in the Philippines.

Occupational Safety and Health

One step closer to safer and healthier workplaces through simple acts of care

In Viet Nam’s coffee heartland, farmers are stepping up not just to grow beans, but to grow a culture of care.

Wilfred Jenks Lecture Series

Laurence R. Helfer: Pushback Against Supervisory Systems: Lessons for the ILO from UN Human Rights Institutions

This lecture offers a wider perspective on the ongoing challenges to the ILO supervisory system. It analyzes the different ways that states and non-state actors have pushed back against treaty monitoring bodies created by UN human rights...

What are gender-responsive employment policies?

Gender-responsive employment policies include measures that support job creation and transitions in the labour market.

Regional Workshop Validates MRC Operations Manual

The Regional Operations Manual for Migrant Resource Centres (MRCs) brings together representatives from across the region to harmonise operational standards, strengthen service delivery, and enhance coordination among MRCs. The meeting provided a...

Lebanon’s cherry farmers embrace safer and more sustainable practices through ILO support

The ILO’s BOUZOUR project, funded by Sweden, is helping cherry farmers like Hasan Sharaf and the Ismail family strengthen value chains, improve occupational safety and health and open more inclusive access to global markets.

Podcast series: Global challenges – Global solutions

Trade: Good or bad for jobs?

Is trade good or bad for jobs? It goes without saying that trade and investment have contributed to job creation, expanded market opportunities, raised incomes and improved working conditions across the globe. But does this remain a viable strategy...

Institutionalising Labour Migration Governance Gains in Uganda

With the BRMM programme nearing its end, Uganda's tripartite partners and key stakeholders turned their attention to what comes next, working through an exit strategy designed to embed labour migration governance gains into national systems long...

Digitalization in employment policies

Digital technology is reshaping the world of work, creating both opportunities and challenges. The ILO supports the integration of digital transformation into employment policy frameworks by focusing on creating decent work while addressing exiting...

This is social justice

Employment training creates inclusive green jobs in Jordan

Alaa Mhairat tells us how she gained financial independence and found work in an agricultural project to create a green environment for her community in Jordan.

This is social justice

Dignity and empowerment through salaried employment in South Africa

Langanani Moleya went from being homeless to becoming a salaried manager for an urban regeneration agency in South Africa. Listen to Moleya’s journey from insecurity to dignity and empowerment.

Fair wage and social dialogue

ILO backs trade unions to strengthen capacity on wage policy in Ethiopia

The International Labour Organization (ILO) supports Ethiopian trade unions in strengthening their technical and institutional capacity to engage in wage policy development.