Turin

Green Jobs Learning Forum. Local strategies and actions

This practitioners’ Learning Forum will provide participants with knowledge, tools and examples of good practices to enhance their skills in the design and implementation of effective local strategies for the promotion of green jobs.

Publication

Briefing Note #20: Leveraging health microinsurance to promote universal health coverage

01 September 2013

Many countries are pursuing government-sponsored health insurance as a primary path towards universal health coverage. In these same countries, there are private health microinsurance schemes sponsored by community-based organizations, commercial insurance companies, or other institutions. In Briefing Note #20, the Facility explores the hypothesis that government-sponsored initiatives should collaborate with private actors to accelerate the expansion of health insurance to informal workers and their families.

Publication

Impact Insurance Working Paper #24: Microcare Insurance Uganda - Case Study

01 September 2013

Microcare originated out of a desire to find more effective ways to provide low-income communities with access to better quality healthcare. Pre-paid healthcare offered an opportunity to accumulate and channel resources so that poor people would get cashless access to healthcare services and service providers would benefit from better cash flows. Microinsurance Paper #24 examines the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of Microcare as a provider of low-cost health insurance. It seeks to draw lessons from Microcare’s experience that will further the development of a more successful business model for health microinsurance.

Flyer

Managing your Agricultural Cooperative

19 August 2013

Distance learning Training of Trainers course on “Managing your Agricultural Cooperative - My.Coop”, hosted by the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO)

Course

Managing your Agricultural Cooperative

My.Coop distance learning Training of Trainers online course

Publication

ILO and Cooperatives - ILO COOP NEWS No. 2, 2013

15 August 2013

This issue of the COOP News includes articles on: ILO-ICA-AFCSMC Training in China; ILO strengthening ties with Korean cooperatives; Egyptian group visits Turkish cooperatives; Sustainable Enterprise Academy; Update on the national coop policy in Sri Lanka; Cooperation with Greek trade unions; Trade unions and worker cooperatives seminar; Cooperative banks’ day at the EU Parliament; ILO participation at MedESS 2013; Waste pickers organization at the ILC; ILO work on e-waste and cooperatives; COOP Champions; Academy on social and solidarity economy; Conference on social and solidarity economy; MATCOM in Afghanistan; Colombia rolls out My.COOP training package; Cooperatives in Japanese universities; Conference on cooperatives in Russia; Registration for My.COOP training open; ILO trains coop extension workers; DG Report on the situation of workers.

Project

Indonesia: Green entrepreneurship promotion

07 August 2013

The ILO promotes green entrepreneurs in rural and urban Indonesia.

Project

Fiji: Green jobs in the waste management sector

07 August 2013

Capacity building and the promotion of occupational safety and health standards have led to the creation of green jobs in Fiji’s waste management sector.

Project

The Philippines: Climate change adaptation for vulnerable farming populations

07 August 2013

In cooperation with UN agencies and local and national partners, the ILO helped farming communities in the southern Philippines to become less vulnerable to climate change.

Project

China: Skill development for green entrepreneurship

07 August 2013

Green jobs activities in China put a particular focus on green entrepreneurship training and skills development for green jobs.