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Regional Competency Standards for Domestic Workers within the EAC

A virtual workshop with the aim of harmonising standards for domestic workers' competencies, allowing for the recognition of their skills and competencies across partner states.

Emerging Insight: Business using under-18 support may be less resilient

ILO Voices | Social protection

Rights migrate too

In search of a better future, Ditraiza Ramírez migrated with her family from Venezuela to Colombia. Having made a new life in a new country, she wanted to help others like her and now spends her spare time raising awareness about migrants’ rights to...

Technical and vocational education and training and skills development

Skills: My passport to a better future

The ILO-UK Skills for Prosperity Programme helps partners implement pilots on inclusive, area-based and industry-led lifelong learning models in the Philippines.

Harnessing synergies between human rights and inclusive growth

Event programme: Responsible Business, Human Rights and Decent Work in Asia

The ILO and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan are jointly hosting a dialogue event in Jakarta, Indonesia, to boost human rights initiatives in Asian countries.

Community-based Child Labour Monitoring System rescues Bangladesh’s future teachers

A community-based child labour monitoring system supported by ILO in Bangladesh is identifying and rescuing children from poor families who would have otherwise been trapped and lost in the vicious circle of abject poverty.

Stepping Forward: Malawi's Deep Dive into Child Labour Data within Tea and Coffee Supply Chains

Partnerships in Action - Private Sector Engagement in Promoting Quality Education to Eliminating Child Labour in Supply Chains

Skills development

A new wave of traditional mat-making sweeps through a Philippine town

The ILO-UK Skills for Prosperity Programme has helped locals produce and sell premium, high-quality hand-woven products and thus earn a decent wage.

Operationalizing the humanitarian-development-peace nexus for social protection in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Efforts to boost coherence between humanitarian and development activities are laying the groundwork for a stronger Palestinian social protection sector.

Promoting quality apprenticeship in India, South Africa, China, Ethiopia and Switzerland

Study Tour

ILO Voices | Entrepreneurship

Sweet success for a honey trailblazer in Côte d’Ivoire

When crisis hit Côte d’Ivoire, Cissé Marbré’s education hopes were dashed. Undeterred she persevered, and with the help of ILO business training is now a prize-winning entrepreneur producing honey sold across the country’s supermarkets.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Interview with Orkun Doğan, Economist and Researcher/Partner at Yerkure Local Studies Cooperative and Dissensus Research

“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)....

Bangladesh Youth Champion Green Skills for Youth Impacted by Climate Crisis

In collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) launched their first joint Youth Green Skills Accelerator Challenge Call in May 2022. The joint initiative was aimed at fostering innovation...

Video

ILO and meaningful engagement with young people

This video launched on the occasion of International Youth Day 2023, explains the need to engage with youth in a right based approach by ensuring their participation in matters that affect them and their future and advocates for their inclusion in...

Our impact, their voices

Skills training proved to be a transformative experience for Rozen

The EU-funded Skills 21 project is making a real difference to the lives of young women and men in Bangladesh.

Decent work in Chile’s wine industry: A pilot programme for fair practices and social dialogue

Making a difference for a more sustainable future

Colleen McSwiggin, Executive Director and Recycler in Chief, Cincinnati Recycling & Reuse Hub, Cincinnati, Ohio

Sustainable Development Goal 8

There cannot be decent work for all without decent work for youth

Young people are our hope for a better future, but targeted policies are needed to address the disadvantages they face in the labour market.

Social security

Mobile offices to provide social security services in rural communities

Loveleen De, Social Protection Project Manager, Lao People’s Democratic Republic explains a pilot project to serve agricultural and home-based workers who have difficulty travelling to the Lao Social Security Offices to register or claim benefits....