News

March 2023

  1. Iraq ratified the ILO conventions on social protection and on Maritime Labour

    23 March 2023

    Iraq becomes the 64th member State to have ratified ILO Convention on social protection and the 102nd member State to have ratified the maritime labour convention MLC, 2006.

  2. Gender Awareness Workshop for Ministry of Agriculture and the directorates under EIIP Project Phase VI

    23 March 2023

    The EIIP project funded by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the German Development Bank (KfW) was launched in Jordan in 2016 in response to the Syrian crisis and to provide support to the Jordanian Government in facing the challenges related to the influx of refugees. It focuses on increasing short term employment through improving infrastructure and the environment, and to providing youth with skills that will assist them in securing longer-term job opportunities.

  3. BMZ supports Green Jobs and Women's Participation in Jordan

    23 March 2023

    The EIIP project funded by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the German Development Bank (KfW) was launched in Jordan in 2016 in response to the Syrian crisis and to provide support to the Jordanian Government in facing the challenges related to the influx of refugees. It focuses on increasing short term employment through improving infrastructure and the environment, and to providing youth with skills that will assist them in securing longer-term job opportunities.

  4. New ILO paper: “Education attainment gap in Iraq and the potential of social protection to reverse it”

    22 March 2023

    A new ILO working paper examines loss of earnings due to Iraq’s education gap and outlines the potential of social protection to address this gap, based on international good practices.

  5. ILO trains engineers on its employment-intensive infrastructure recovery approach in Syria

    21 March 2023

    The training took place in preparation of ILO emergency employment scheme in Aleppo, that will create decent jobs and rehabilitate destroyed infrastructure.

  6. ILO assigns $3.6 million of direct support to workers affected by the Türkiye and Syria earthquakes

    20 March 2023

    The ILO announced the allocation at a donors’ conference hosted in Brussels in support of victims of the earthquakes in the two countries.

  7. ILO signs grant agreements to help workers and employers organizations support their members

    19 March 2023

    The grants were made in parallel to the ILO initiating an emergency employment scheme in Aleppo, to restore livelihoods and rehabilitate destroyed infrastructure.

  8. ILO and PWP launch training on community contracting for Yemeni Women

    17 March 2023

    Women from across Yemen will be trained by the end of two workshops on gender-responsive community contracting

  9. Ground-breaking reforms in Oman pave the way for a new social protection model in Gulf Cooperation Council countries

    15 March 2023

    New draft law reflects an ambitious set of reforms which will lead to the modernization and redesign of the social protection system in Oman.

  10. ILO launch new Work-Based Learning manual to improve skills training and employment prospects in Lebanon

    14 March 2023

    The manual aims to harmonize approaches to work-based learning in the country and provide Lebanon’s workers with the skills that the economy demands.