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Emerging Insight: Selecting a digital payment platform

Our impact, their voices

Despite hardships, I never gave up my dream: starting my own business!

My name is Rajmati Lawad. I am 39 years old. My father has worked as a bonded labourer until his death. I had to quit school. But I did not give up my dream. After a long struggle, not only did I manage to open my shop but now I also employ five...

Our impact, Their voices

Brighter light and higher hopes: Solar energy systems keep technical schools running in Lebanon

The ILO provided a number of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) schools with solar systems in Lebanon to keep their doors open and trained their students on solar panel installation and maintenance to build their skills and help...

Opinion editorial

Viewing jobs law and Perppu through the lens of freedom of association

An opinion editorial by Albert Bonasahat, national project coordinator of the ILO Ship to Shore Rights Programme, published by the Jakarta Post on 7 January.

Working hard for my sisters' future

Maria Fierro Trejo- Manager Meat and Seafood Department, Piggly Wiggly Grocery Store, Coligny Plaza, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

ILO launches an innovative approach to facilitate enterprise formalization in Cabo Verde

With 8 out of 10 economic units operating in the informal economy globally, what can countries do to promote the transition to formality and improve the livelihoods of billions? Which enterprises are most likely to formalize?

ILO Voices | Women in management

When a woman becomes boss in a man's world

Entrepreneur, Takhmina Bakhronova, is the first woman to break into the male-dominated taxi business in Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe.

TVET Governance

ILO supports the Ministry of Education to build the capacity of their TVET officials on institutional governance

The Skills 21 project has developed a capacity-building programme on Institutional Governance for TVET officials to build the capacity of government officials to implement good governance with regard to financial and institutional management and...

From a high school interest to a successful business

Inspired trainers can inspire trainees

From unemployment to the creation of jobs for 10 additional people

Environmental sustainability in a furniture business

Young Congolese refugee fights the Malaria endemic in Uganda

An opportunity to start over with a factory of hopes

A digital strategy that brought new and happier clients

Digitalising a fashion business in Nigeria

Our impact, their voices

Stories behind our work: Industrious leaders in Ethiopia’s industrial parks

The recovery of a business in the culture sector in an Argentinian mountain valley

A local business promoting women’s employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina

ILO Voices | Local economic development

We won’t need to beg for water anymore

Yasin Muhumad Faarah, an Ethiopian farmer, lost all his cattle in a recent drought. Without a regular supply of water, his future livelihood and that of other members of the community was in jeopardy. Together they built a water collection basin...