Focus

  1. Abidjan Declaration - Advancing Social Justice: Shaping the future of work in Africa

Contact us

  1. ILO Country Office for Ethiopia and Somalia
    Africa Hall, 6th Floor,
    Menelik II Avenue
    Addis Ababa
    P.O.Box 2788
    Ethiopia
    Tel:+251-11-5444246
    Fax:+251-11-5445573, +251-11-5513633
    Email:addisababa@ilo.org

ILO in Ethiopia

  • ILO in Ethiopia

    Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa. The ILO in Ethiopia supports programme priorities identified by the constituents, including the promotion of decent employment for poverty reduction, the enhancement of labour market governance, and the improvement of social protection for sustainable development.

What's new

  1. ILO launches a two-year capacity building partnership with the Ethiopian Investment Commission on ‘enhancing the impact of investment on employment and decent work creation in Ethiopia’ for the Ethiopian Investment Commission and Regional Investment Bureaus

    09 June 2022

  2. Advancing productivity, quality improvement and decent work in Ethiopia’s garment industry - results so far.

    01 June 2022

  3. "(If not for the program), it would have been hard as I would not be able to feed my kids and pay my rent" - Meseret, Ethiopia

    16 May 2022

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Key resources 

  1. Labour Migration Governance in Ethiopia

Standards and national legislation

  1. National Labour legislation

  2. Ratifications for Ethiopia

Publications

  1. Decent Work

    Decent Work Country Profile for Ethiopia

Current projects

  1. Joint UN Resource Mobilization for the Counter Trafficking and Migration Policy and Practice in Ethiopia