News

August 2015

  1. Capacity-building workshops on National Employment Policies for workers' organizations

    31 August 2015

  2. Jobs and skills for youth: review of policies for youth employment of the Russian Federation

    21 August 2015

  3. President Lungu Launches National Youth Policy and Action Plan on Youth Empowerment and Employment for Zambia

    14 August 2015

    Zambia’s Republican President, Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu has launched the 2015 revised National Youth Policy and the first ever National Action Plan on Youth Empowerment and Employment.

  4. Labour Market Transitions of Young Women and Men: Innovative research from 30 ‘school-to-work transition survey’ (SWTS) datasets

    06 August 2015

    The ILO “Work4Youth” Project and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) invite researchers to submit proposals for innovative research papers relevant to labour market transitions of young women and men in developing countries, making use of one or several of the recent “school-to-work transition survey (SWTS)” datasets from 30 countries. The deadline for submission is Wednesday 30 September 2015.

July 2015

  1. Solomon Islands: Cash for work helps natural disaster recovery

    22 July 2015

    Climate change directly affects lives around the world, especially as extreme weather events become more common. In the Solomon Islands, villages were washed away when heavy torrential rains, caused two rivers to burst their banks. The ILO's Cash for Work program helps the government, and workers from those communities restore their villages and livelihoods.

  2. Vocational teachers and trainers in a changing world: the imperative of high-quality teacher training systems

    16 July 2015

    EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 177

  3. Investing in youth and ensuring decent jobs to harness the demographic dividend

    On the occasion of the first-ever World Youth Skills Day, joint side event of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development

  4. What works for youth employment? Innovative experiences in the transition to formality: An Initiative under the ILO’s Area of Critical Importance on Jobs and Skills for Youth (ACI 2)

    08 July 2015

  5. Fund for Evaluation in Employment 2015

    01 July 2015

    The ILO invites researchers and M&E Officers to submit applications to receive technical assistance and financial support of up to US$650,000 for evaluation of youth employment programmes in the Middle East and North Africa.

June 2015

  1. Youth Employment Newsletter #4

    23 June 2015