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ILO Regional Director for Africa Visits AfDB-ILO Custom Mercury Free Gold Milling Plant in Zimbabwe.

As part of her mission to Zimbabwe, the Assistant Director General and Regional Director of the ILO, Ms Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, visited an AfDB funded project site in Guruve district, where the ILO has supported the establishment of a custom...

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Employing digital strategies to honour, care and respect the elderly

As the co-owner iElder.asia, Olivia Quah is committed to ensuring elders can live life to the fullest through her medical service e-commerce platform. Always on the lookout for opportunities to pursue new digital marketing strategies, Olivia...

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Glass half-full: Social entrepreneur embodies optimism & hope through COVID-19

Susan Zamora Olarte is the co-owner of Vino Arsan Enterprises, a small agribusiness producing local wine in the Philippines. Determined to take her 100% Filipino handcrafted wines and spirits to the next level, Susan is promoting the livelihood of...

Routes to success for youth through digital skills and apprenticeship

The ILO’s digital skills training and apprenticeship programmes have provided two young Indonesians with a better opportunity for skilled jobs in animation industry.

UN Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) South Africa Transition

Close Out Ceremony

Towards SDG Target 8.7: prevention and elimination of child labour in Burkina Faso’s cotton production sector.

Child labour is present in the garment, textile and cotton supply chain in multiple countries around the world. It is found particularly in Africa and Asia where cotton production systems are labour intensive and/or are dominated by small-holder...

Vocational training initiative gives families of working children chance to improve skills and employability in Iraq

Parents and caregivers of working children from forcibly displaced and host communities attend vocational training programme to learn new skills that will enable them to generate income and pull their children out of child labour.

ACCEL Mali

ACCEL Mali organizes national knowledge sharing days on the elimination of child labour

Partners shared the importance of a diverse set of initiatives to combat child labour in Mali.

Emerging Insight: How can lenders better protect MSMEs?

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Resilience and growth aided by digital tools and inspiring female friendships

Sirintra Jittrawong is a Thai entrepreneur juggling not one, but two separate businesses. Always looking to expand her skillset and help those around her, Sirintra demonstrates the powerful role women play in their business communities.

Hoping for improvements after 27 years working at sea

After 27 years working at sea, Sukarno’s working life remains the same— constant, hard work with few, short breaks. His hope is to work on land, close to his family.

International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022

The importance of early warning systems in disaster risk reduction

It is not enough for an early warning system to correctly identify an incoming hazard, it must also ensure that the populations and sectors that are at risk can receive the alert, understand it, and most importantly, act on it.

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Occupational safety and health enhance the business resilience of Indonesian SMEs

The risk assessment service provided by the ILO’s Enhancing COVID-19 Prevention at and through Workplaces has helped Indonesia small- and medium-sized enterprises survive the pandemic. Two resilient businesswomen shared their survival journeys.

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Information Centres (BILMERs) support employers and employees on the way to knowledge, security and productivity

ILO 8.7 Accelerator Lab training

Detention of foreign fishing vessel in South Africa follows ILO training on forced labour

Emerging Insight: How partnerships benefit aggregators and clients alike

ILO Voices | Recognition of prior learning

Failing in school is not failing in life

After 25 years of on-the-job experience as a welder in Zanzibar, Tanzania, 53-year-old Hussein Juma Hassan had his skills formally recognized. The certification process has helped him realise the value of his skills and also increased his income....

A ‘fun, engaging and more effective way’ to teach - and learn

Filipino trainers and trainees hail the use of learner-centred approaches, saying it has helped improve the quality of their teaching and learning.

The Social and Solidarity Economy as an agent of social innovation in Africa

An ILO research report on the contribution of SSE to social innovation in Africa is now available in English and French

Building skills and empowering young people in Lebanon – Rabih’s story

The ILO has provided market-relevant skills training for Lebanese nationals and Syrian refugees to improve their employment prospects.