News and events
2014
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Corporate social responsibility
ILO and H&M sign unique agreement on sustainable global supply chains in the garment industry
15 September 2014
New partnership will address industrial relations, wages, capacity building for social partners and skills development in global supply chains of the garment industry.
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Publication
The Taqeem Fund: Results-based monitoring and evaluation for youth employment in the MENA region: Public-Private Partnership
26 July 2014
To support youth employment initiatives and improving the effectiveness of their programs, the ILO initiated work on results-based monitoring and evaluation. This new public-private partnership (PPP) supports a select group of small and medium-sized youth employment organizations from the Middle East and North Africa region to develop strategies and provide evidence of their impact, through cost-effective and mass-market technology-based tools. The results are promoted to a broader community of policymakers, practitioners and funders. The Taqeem (wich means “evaluation” in Arabic) Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of fifteen youth employment organizations pioneering new approaches to build capacity in the MENA region to measure and monitor the impact of national programmes.
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News
Improving skills for better jobs and economic growth
09 July 2014
The ILO and the Republic of Korea have launched a dynamic partnership to promote job creation and apprenticeships for economic growth.
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© Munir Uz Zaman / AFP 2024
News
Progress booked after one year of ILO-EU-Bangladesh Compact on safety in garment factories
09 July 2014
A year ago, the ILO, the EU, Bangladesh and the United States signed a Compact to improve labour rights in the garment industry of Bangladesh.
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© ILO Photo/K. Cassidy 2024
Multilateral cooperation
ILO and UNESCO reconfirm commitment to joint work in new agreement
08 July 2014
Text covers training youth for employment, women's employment and equal rights, child labour, human rights, social protection floors, poverty eradication and South-South and triangular cooperation.
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© ILO 2024
Albania
Can you speak Italian?
02 July 2014
Italian companies are increasingly turning to Albanian migrant workers who are going back home to work at their call centres. An EU-funded ILO project is helping employment centres in Albania to modernize and to assist migrant workers looking for a new job.
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Women entrepreneurs
Better skills mean boosted profits for Somali women
24 June 2014
The ILO is helping women in Somaliland develop successful enterprises by providing them with the right skills.
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Public-Private Partnerships
CAOBISCO and ILO extend cooperation in combating child labour in seasonal hazelnut harvesting in Turkey
18 June 2014
Project addresses seasonal work by children in hazelnut farming in Turkey.
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South-South and triangular cooperation
Informal meeting of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) and the ILO in the framework of SSTC
Members of the ILO from the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) met with representatives of the ILO during the International Labour Conference in June 2014. Inter alia, they discussed the recent publication, "South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP): good practices in social protection and in combating child labour" (see link below to Portuguese version).
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Publication
The Microinsurance Innovation Facility: Catalyzing protection of the working poor
17 June 2014
The Facility inspires and encourages new approaches to reach unmet needs and thus stimulates product and process innovations within potential and existing risk carriers, but also the types of services offered and the delivery channels chosen. Such innovations can fall within the entire range of operations; they can be related to, for example, the client interface, the processing of applications, the claims and the renewals.