Projects on domestic work

  1. Achieving reduction of child labour in support of education: Programme to reduce the worst forms of child labour in agriculture sector in BARMM

    01 October 2020

    The ILO and the Government of Japan through the ILO-Japan Multi-bilateral Programme have partnered to reduce the worst forms of child labour in agricultural communities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The initial target provinces are Maguindanao and Lanao Del Sur.

  2. Combat child labour in domestic work and the worst forms in Haiti - Final evaluation

    24 October 2017

  3. UN Women-ILO project: ‘Preventing the exploitation of women migrant workers in ASEAN’

    06 March 2015

    A UN Women and ILO collaboration to enhance the benefits of labour migration in the ASEAN region through improved protection of women migrant workers

  4. Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families

    01 January 2015

    The project seeks to promote the human and labour rights of migrant domestic workers worldwide by addressing the challenges that make migrant domestic workers particularly vulnerable to the risks of exploitation and abuse.

  5. Integrated actions towards improved and more equitable working conditions for vulnerable groups of workers

    26 September 2014

    This ILO project aims at designing and implementing policies, laws and programmes related to wages, working time and working conditions of socially disadvantaged groups of workers in Cape Verde, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Tanzania and Zambia.

  6. ILO-Sweden Partnership Agreement: Making decent work a reality for decent workers

    31 December 2013

    The ILO-Sweden Partnership Agreement contributes to increase the capacity of governments, domestic workers organizations, trade unions and employers’ organizations to promote decent work for domestic workers in Zambia, Tanzania, Paraguay, the Philippines, and India. The project supports advocacy and awareness-raising, the development of national knowledge about the domestic work sector, social dialogue, the design of legal and policy reforms, C189 ratification processes, capacity-building of domestic workers’ organizations, and initiatives by trade unions and employers’ organizations to address issues concerning domestic workers.

  7. Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Advocating Institutional Reform in the Middle East

    04 October 2013

    This project is an initiative of the Migration and Governance Network - MAGNET. The ILO is working with countries in the Arab States to provide options for reform of national policies and institutions to protect migrant domestic workers rights.

  8. Migration and Governance Network - MAGNET

    04 October 2013

    ILO supports Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen and the Gulf Cooperation Council States to strengthen labour migration governance and combat human trafficking.

  9. Global Action Programme on Migrant Domestic Workers and their Families

    30 September 2013

    Promoting decent work for migrant workers worldwide

  10. Developing tripartite institutions and mechanisms that advocate for and promote the realization of core labour rights in Colombia

    01 August 2013