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April 2024
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Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF
ILO Director-General statement to the IMF International Monetary and Financial Committee and to the joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee
19 April 2024
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Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF
Greater social justice is the cornerstone of a more sustained recovery, ILO tells World Bank and IMF
19 April 2024
In statements to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington D.C., the ILO’s Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, underlined "the crucial need for concerted, coordinated action at all levels" in the face of converging global crises.
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Article
ILO’s Opportunity Salone Programme empowers youths in Bombali district
16 April 2024
Makeni, the headquarter town of Bombali district, receives huge support from the ILO’s Opportunity Salone Programme funded by the EU, to maintain 14km feeder roads and thereby create links within the communities, providing decent jobs for unskilled Sierra Leoneans to address rural household poverty.
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Video
Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) Arab States Seminar
16 April 2024
The Employment-Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) held a successful regional workshop in Jordan from 27 to 29 February 2024. The workshop brought together participants from Jordan, Iraq, Syria, the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Yemen, and Lebanon, along with technical specialists from the International Labour Organization (ILO) regional office and Geneva. Through engaging discussions and interactive sessions, participants explored various approaches to employment-intensive interventions and their impact on sustainable development in the Arab States region.
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Education
ILO discusses key recommendations to transform teaching profession
10 April 2024
The ILO highlighted the Recommendations of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level panel on the teaching profession, to be considered within national contexts to address the urgent crisis in the teaching profession and the teacher shortages facing many parts of the world.
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Social protection
Building a social protection system that reflects the realities of women's lives in Viet Nam: An interview with Cao Thi Hong Minh
02 April 2024
Cao Thi Hong Minh works at the Viet Nam Women's Union. She is at the forefront of her union’s work, in partnership with the ILO, to train hundreds of its members in advocacy and in gender-sensitive social protection systems across Viet Nam.
March 2024
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Video
Ending Child Labour in Supply Chains project study visit in Uganda
28 March 2024
Interaction on child labour in Uganda’s coffee supply chain with smallholder coffee farmers and commercial coffee enterprises.
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ILOSTAT blog
Charting progress on the global goals and decent work
27 March 2024
As the world faces a number of complex challenges, we examine key labour indicators to assess the impact of unprecedented crises in order to shed light on global trends and regional variations and their impact on our ability to realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Article
Emerging Insight: Unveiling the Japan Decent Work 8 Index
26 March 2024
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Article
Women fishers promote safety, boost productivity
25 March 2024
An all-women's fishing group in a coastal village that debones, and processes milkfish improves their safety and productivity after doing risk assessments and applying practical, low-action interventions using the WISE checklist.