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Collective bargaining is key to forge an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient recovery

Thu, 5 May 2022

A new ILO flagship report shows that collective bargaining played a crucial role during the pandemic in forging resilience and can provide an effective means for employers and workers to tackle the new challenges that are shaking up the world of work.

The report in short

Thu, 28 Apr 2022

ILO working with local government in Tunisia to promote and implement climate action and employment creation

Sat, 23 Apr 2022

ILO in Action: Tunisia adapts to climate change through local development

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

In Tunisia the ILO is working with local municipal governments to promote employment through the development of infrastructure, which is resilient and adaptive to climate change. Jad Boubaker, Chief Technical Advisor of the European Union-financed project "Pilot Initiative for Integrated Local Development" (IPDLI), explains.

World Health Day: Jump-start a healthier and greener recovery

Thu, 7 Apr 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the multiple links between public health and the environment. Sustaining environmental and health gains can therefore help prevent future pandemics and climate-related crises.

Interview – ILO Director-General elect: "We need social and political cohesion in our world today"

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

Interviewed after his election on 25 march 2022, ILO Director-General Gilbert Houngbo highlights the need to ensure that economic progress is equitably distributed among the different segments of society. The ILO Governing Body has elected Gilbert F. Houngbo as the Organization’s 11th Director-General, who will take office in October 2022.

New agreement strengthens decent work in the aviation industry

Tue, 15 Mar 2022

The renewed collaboration between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) aims to ensure a safe, strong, inclusive and sustainable COVID-19 recovery in the aviation industry.

Princess Sarah Culberson: Invest in the care economy for a better gender equal world

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

In celebrating International Women's Week, author, humanitarian and global public speaker, Princess Sarah Culberson of Sierra Leone, joins the ILO to call on countries to invest in the care economy and transformative policies to shape a better future and achieve the SDGs in 2030.

Conceptual framework of the self-assessment method for social dialogue institutions: SAM-SDI

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

This animated video explains the key concepts underpinning the SAM-SDI. It shows how enhancing the inclusiveness and effectiveness of social dialogue institutions should contribute to the overall goal of achieving more socially just and economically sustainable policy outcomes.

ILO in Action: Prospects for responding to forced displacement in Lebanon

Fri, 4 Feb 2022

ILO Chief Technical Advisor, Shaza Al Jondi, speaks from Lebanon about the Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities (PROSPECTS), which aims to help forcibly displaced persons and their host communities tackle the challenges caused by displacement. Together with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank, the project will run until 2023.

ILO PROSPECTS: teaching life skills through football and women setting a new social norm in Egypt

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

Soft skills enable youth to find decent employment and makes them resilient to economic shocks.

Educators and the changing world of education and work

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

Effective lifelong learning and quality education for all is essential for a better future of work. If teachers, trainers and support workers are to fulfil this ambition they will need to master new technologies and learning techniques and receive support to deal with their expanded responsibilities.

Introduction to a self-assessment method for social dialogue institutions: SAM-SDI

Fri, 21 Jan 2022

The SAM-SDI is a tool developed by the ILO to enable its constituents to assess and improve the inclusiveness and effectiveness of their social dialogue institutions, and hence their impact on policy-making. This video presents an overview of the SAM-SDI, explaining its background and outlining the six steps of the method.

ILO World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO): Trends 2022

Mon, 17 Jan 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have significant effects on global labour markets, the ILO warns of a slow and uncertain recovery, and highlights stark differences in the impact the crisis is having across groups of workers and countries.

Digital platform workers talk about their experience

Wed, 12 Jan 2022

Find out about the world of digital labour platforms and the people who work on them, via our interactive map.

ILO in Action: Our objective is to improve the job prospects of young people

Wed, 5 Jan 2022

ILO Chief Technical Advisor, David Andrevon, speaks from Tunis about the ACJEMP project, which is improving the access of youth to the job market through coaching and training. The project is funded by the French Development Agency and aims to support 20,000 young women and men in Tunisia by 2023.

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder's message on International Migrants Day 2021

Sat, 18 Dec 2021

The role of cooperatives in forced displacement

Thu, 16 Dec 2021

This video captures the contribution of cooperatives in the forced displacement contexts to improve livelihoods of both host communities and refugees. It brings together evidences from the field and summarises application of cooperatives' experiential learnings within PROSPECTS Partnership. It shares examples of cooperative contributions to livelihoods of host and refugee communities in Jordan, Uganda and Turkey.

ILO in action: We help migrant domestic workers overcome their vulnerability to the pandemic

Wed, 15 Dec 2021

ILO Senior Labour Migration Specialist, Gloria Moreno-Fontes, speaks from Pretoria about the Southern Africa Migration Management (SAMM) Project, which aims to improve migration management in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region. The project is funded by the European Commission and implemented by the ILO in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Video presentation of the Trade for Decent Work Project

Tue, 14 Dec 2021

Collective bargaining is key to forge an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient recovery

Thu, 5 May 2022

A new ILO flagship report shows that collective bargaining played a crucial role during the pandemic in forging resilience and can provide an effective means for employers and workers to tackle the new challenges that are shaking up the world of work.

The report in short

Thu, 28 Apr 2022

ILO working with local government in Tunisia to promote and implement climate action and employment creation

Sat, 23 Apr 2022

ILO in Action: Tunisia adapts to climate change through local development

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

In Tunisia the ILO is working with local municipal governments to promote employment through the development of infrastructure, which is resilient and adaptive to climate change. Jad Boubaker, Chief Technical Advisor of the European Union-financed project "Pilot Initiative for Integrated Local Development" (IPDLI), explains.

World Health Day: Jump-start a healthier and greener recovery

Thu, 7 Apr 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the multiple links between public health and the environment. Sustaining environmental and health gains can therefore help prevent future pandemics and climate-related crises.

Interview – ILO Director-General elect: "We need social and political cohesion in our world today"

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

Interviewed after his election on 25 march 2022, ILO Director-General Gilbert Houngbo highlights the need to ensure that economic progress is equitably distributed among the different segments of society. The ILO Governing Body has elected Gilbert F. Houngbo as the Organization’s 11th Director-General, who will take office in October 2022.

New agreement strengthens decent work in the aviation industry

Tue, 15 Mar 2022

The renewed collaboration between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) aims to ensure a safe, strong, inclusive and sustainable COVID-19 recovery in the aviation industry.

Princess Sarah Culberson: Invest in the care economy for a better gender equal world

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

In celebrating International Women's Week, author, humanitarian and global public speaker, Princess Sarah Culberson of Sierra Leone, joins the ILO to call on countries to invest in the care economy and transformative policies to shape a better future and achieve the SDGs in 2030.

Conceptual framework of the self-assessment method for social dialogue institutions: SAM-SDI

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

This animated video explains the key concepts underpinning the SAM-SDI. It shows how enhancing the inclusiveness and effectiveness of social dialogue institutions should contribute to the overall goal of achieving more socially just and economically sustainable policy outcomes.

ILO in Action: Prospects for responding to forced displacement in Lebanon

Fri, 4 Feb 2022

ILO Chief Technical Advisor, Shaza Al Jondi, speaks from Lebanon about the Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities (PROSPECTS), which aims to help forcibly displaced persons and their host communities tackle the challenges caused by displacement. Together with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank, the project will run until 2023.

ILO PROSPECTS: teaching life skills through football and women setting a new social norm in Egypt

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

Soft skills enable youth to find decent employment and makes them resilient to economic shocks.

Educators and the changing world of education and work

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

Effective lifelong learning and quality education for all is essential for a better future of work. If teachers, trainers and support workers are to fulfil this ambition they will need to master new technologies and learning techniques and receive support to deal with their expanded responsibilities.

Introduction to a self-assessment method for social dialogue institutions: SAM-SDI

Fri, 21 Jan 2022

The SAM-SDI is a tool developed by the ILO to enable its constituents to assess and improve the inclusiveness and effectiveness of their social dialogue institutions, and hence their impact on policy-making. This video presents an overview of the SAM-SDI, explaining its background and outlining the six steps of the method.

ILO World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO): Trends 2022

Mon, 17 Jan 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have significant effects on global labour markets, the ILO warns of a slow and uncertain recovery, and highlights stark differences in the impact the crisis is having across groups of workers and countries.

Digital platform workers talk about their experience

Wed, 12 Jan 2022

Find out about the world of digital labour platforms and the people who work on them, via our interactive map.

ILO in Action: Our objective is to improve the job prospects of young people

Wed, 5 Jan 2022

ILO Chief Technical Advisor, David Andrevon, speaks from Tunis about the ACJEMP project, which is improving the access of youth to the job market through coaching and training. The project is funded by the French Development Agency and aims to support 20,000 young women and men in Tunisia by 2023.

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder's message on International Migrants Day 2021

Sat, 18 Dec 2021

The role of cooperatives in forced displacement

Thu, 16 Dec 2021

This video captures the contribution of cooperatives in the forced displacement contexts to improve livelihoods of both host communities and refugees. It brings together evidences from the field and summarises application of cooperatives' experiential learnings within PROSPECTS Partnership. It shares examples of cooperative contributions to livelihoods of host and refugee communities in Jordan, Uganda and Turkey.

ILO in action: We help migrant domestic workers overcome their vulnerability to the pandemic

Wed, 15 Dec 2021

ILO Senior Labour Migration Specialist, Gloria Moreno-Fontes, speaks from Pretoria about the Southern Africa Migration Management (SAMM) Project, which aims to improve migration management in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region. The project is funded by the European Commission and implemented by the ILO in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Video presentation of the Trade for Decent Work Project

Tue, 14 Dec 2021