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Formalizing Coordination on Job Creation and Safe Labour Migration in Ethiopia

Strengthening coordination among Ethiopian institutions to advance job creation, overseas employment, and reintegration support for migrant workers through the formalization of the Reintegration Sub Working Group and endorsement of a shared...

International Labour Review Blog

Are green jobs better jobs? Lessons from the French labour market

This blog post, drawn from research published in the International Labour Review, explores the quality of green jobs in France, finding important variation across and within skill levels and occupational groups that has implications for labour and...

Child Labour

Community-based child labour monitoring and remediation in Uganda

Child labour is a major challenge in Uganda’s rural coffee-growing communities, driven by poverty, household vulnerability, limited access to services, and weak education and protection systems. The CLEAR Supply Chains project – led by the...

Dignity in Service: Transforming Domestic Work through skills development in Tanzania

Validating Tanzania’s proposed domestic work curriculum to give greater structure, recognition, and standards to a sector that employs many women and young people.

Sustainable agriculture

Across continents, young dairy farmers from Indonesia and Switzerland find common ground

Swiss and Indonesian farmers exchange lessons on sustainability, resilience and the future of dairy farming.

International Labour Review Blog

Legitimacy without members? Hungary's lessons on trade union representativeness

This blog, drawn from research published in the International Labour Review, explores how representativeness rules interact with declining union density in Hungary, offering lessons for labour law reform in low-unionisation environments.

Our impact, their voices

New teaching skills help a young teacher transform her classroom in Timor-Leste

Through hands-on training and new teaching methods, one young educator is helping students learn with greater confidence and understanding.

Future of Reporting

Why the ILO is modernizing its labour standards reporting system

In this interview, Corinne Vargha, Director of the ILO’s International Labour Standards Department, explains how a new thematic and digital reporting system aims to simplify ILO Member States reporting obligations, improve supervision and strengthen...

AI and work

The messy business of managing people at work: Is AI the solution?

As AI rapidly transforms recruitment and workplace management, ILO Senior Economist Janine Berg examines the messy realities behind AI in HR and explores whether these emerging systems actually improve decision-making, or simply automate flawed...

PROSPECTS Impact

ILO empowers Sudanese partners to advance employment-intensive infrastructure development

The ILO brought together Sudanese institutions, contractors and infrastructure specialists in Addis Ababa to strengthen employment-intensive approaches that promote job creation, local recovery and resilient infrastructure development in Sudan.

Employment-intensive investment

ILO strengthens social cohesion and rural development in Togo

In Sangol, within Togo’s Savanes region, the International Labour Organization’s crisis response project demonstrates how labour-intensive approaches can create jobs, strengthen social cohesion and support sustainable local infrastructure...

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Rebuilding Gaza through decent work

Thousands of Palestinians are repairing roads, restoring water and power systems, and rebuilding communities through ILO-supported emergency employment programmes. Decent work contributes to sustainable development and plays a critical role in...

Tripartite dialogue strengthens pathways to inclusive social protection in Botswana

A tripartite workshop in Gaborone strengthened national capacities and social dialogue to advance inclusive social insurance reforms aligned with international social security standards in Botswana.

ILOSTAT blog

Decent work reality check: Informality is everywhere

Granular data confirm that informality is a systemic feature of labour markets across sectors and is strongly associated with employment vulnerability.

ACCEL Africa strengthens partner capacities in Uganda on financial management, M&E and gender-responsive programming

ACCEL Africa strengthened the capacities of implementing partners in Uganda through a five-day workshop on financial management, monitoring and evaluation, and gender-responsive programming. The training supported partners to improve compliance with...

ILO entrepreneurship training helps Ethiopian returnee rebuild after tragedy

After surviving a fire while working abroad, Semira Maye returned to Ethiopia facing debt, injury and uncertainty. Through the ILO-supported SIYB programme, she launched a clothing business and regained financial independence.

Ghana becomes an Alliance 8.7 pathfinder country

Ghana has attained Alliance 8.7 Pathfinder Country status, marking an important step in national efforts to eliminate child labour, forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery.

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Latin America and the Caribbean face the challenge of expanding pension coverage

Latin America and the Caribbean face a double pressure: high levels of labour informality and rapid population ageing. Expanding pension coverage is no longer only a social policy aspiration, but an urgent necessity to protect older persons and...

Our impact, their voices

Timorese women turn coconut waste into business opportunities

From discarded husks to marketable products, women in Timor-Leste are building greener livelihoods and new sources of income.

PROSPECTS Impact

From skills to income: youth in Ethiopia turn training and grants into businesses

Supported by the ILO’s Youth-to-Youth Fund, refugee and host community youth in Ethiopia are using business training and seed funding to launch enterprises and generate income.