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International Training Centre Workshop

The Establishment of the Sector Skills Bodies

Our Impact. Their Stories.

Future Founders

ILO is supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs at Hela Apparel Holdings PLC boost their entrepreneurship skills through GET Ahead training.

OSH Day 2024

World Day for Safety and Health Commemorated in Kenya

A conversation with Changhee LEE, Director of the ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia, by Sina Finance

ILO ACCEL Africa collaborates with TUC and CFAN to curb child labour among cocoa farmers

To ensure the cooperation of cocoa farmers of Nigeria to effectively support the fight against child labour among cocoa farmers in Nigeria, ILO ACCEL Africa Project Phase II mobilized key stakeholders to work together to unionize to tackle child...

Enhancing Social Protection for Migrant Workers: Challenges and Strategies in the East and Horn of Africa

Succour as 200 Women Entrepreneurs Enrol into NHIA GIFSHIP Programme

The ILO supported two hundred Women Entrepreneurs to enrol with the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Group Individuals Family Social Health Insurance Program (GIFSHIP) as part of the roll out of the Promoting Gender Equality and...

Photo Essay – Empowering Lebanon's youth

Sustainable and Inclusive: With ILO, Vengo redefines logistics in North Lebanon

Social entrepreneurs in Lebanon successfully grew their businesses through EMDAD, an ILO PROSPECTS-led initiative that offered financial support, personalized coaching, technical training, and networking opportunities, boosting their community and...

Knowledge exchange study tour in Egypt for Job Search Club stakeholders from Arab countries

The visit enabled participants from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon to exchange knowledge and best practices on their experience with the Job Search Club training programme by the PROSPECTS programme with funding from the Netherlands.

An interview with Changhee LEE, Director of the ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia, by China Economic Daily

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Interview with Prof. Carmen Marcuello, Director of GESES and President of OIBESCOOP

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE)....

Ratifying and implementing C122, C88 and C181

Adapting to a new world of work

With ILO’s support refugee brothers build their dream business in Egypt

By providing access to business development training and financial support, the ILO PROSPECTS programme in Egypt supported Mustafa and Muqueem, Syrian brothers and refugees in Egypt to start their own business and even generate employment.

Caribbean employers ready to tackle minimum wage discussions

Our Impact, their voices

Step up to success - boosting job prospects with skills training in Sri Lanka

Enhancing decent-work and safe migration, ILO Sri Lanka supported hospitality sector skills programme for aspirant and returnee migrants is providing both theory, and hands-on training through industry placements.

ILO initiative boosts employment opportunities for young people in Thailand

ILO’s Young Futuremakers Thailand project has provided training and support for more than 1,000 young people in the past three years.

New collaborations and strategies to tackle child labour in Bibiani, Ghana

Empowering workers in Jordan with social security and job protection

With support from the Estidama++ Fund, a local organization enrolls Jordanian and Syrian workers in a national social security scheme.

Child labour

From grief to hope: Supporting families and their children post-pandemic

The relentless wave of COVID-19 swept through Ho Chi Minh City, turning two mothers into single parents, struggling to make ends meet and to raise their children. The ILO’s ENHANCE project have offered such families the support to rediscover hope...

ILOSTAT blog

Women with young children have much lower labour force participation rates

The disproportionate undertaking of childcare responsibilities by women explains a significant portion of the gender gap in labour force participation.