Highlights of the ILO's work

1. 

   Better Work

   Better Work – an ILO/IFC programme set up in 2009 – has improved conditions in factories employing more than 3 million workers by engaging with more than 60 global garment brands and 1,500 factories
   

2. 

   Child labour

   Over the past decade, and with ILO assistance, more than 60 countries implementing almost 200 laws have adapted their legal frameworks to conform to the ILO’s child labour Conventions. Since 2004, in its regular review of the application of Conventions No. 138 and No. 182, the ILO’s Committee of Experts has seen a seven-fold increase in the number of comments noting progress.
   

3. 

   Employment intensive investment

   Employment-intensive investments link infrastructure development with employment creation, poverty reduction and local economic and social development.
   

4. 

   Safety + Health for All

   The Programme aims to improve the safety and health of workers worldwide, giving priority to low and middle-income countries, high-risk sectors, recurrent and new OSH challenges, and workers in vulnerable conditions. Since 2016, 138 million workers in 19 participating countries have benefitted directly or indirectly from Programme interventions. 

5. 

   Social protection

   The ILO works with countries to extend social protection in two ways: by pushing for the rapid implementation of national social protection floors of basic social security guarantees that ensure universal access to essential health care and income security while also improving existing social protection schemes to provide higher levels of benefits, progressively, to as many people as possible.