Employment & VET

Creation of jobs and decent work together with extending coverage of social protection, vocational training provision and skills development in both formal sector and informal economy are essential for inclusive growth. Here we want to raise awareness and knowledge on the important role of employment, VET and social protection as key elements in the EU's development policy.

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Decent work - Disability & employment - Elderly employment - Employment policy - Monitoring labour markets - Vocational training - Youth employment

28th April: World Day for Safety and Health at Work

Pierre Berman posted Information | 4 May 2018

The 28 th April celebrated the World Day for Safety and Health at Work , an international campaign driven by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to raise international awareness on occupational safety and health among trade unions, employers’ organizations and government representatives...

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Group: Informal Economy Support Facility
Sarah Ong commented on information | 25 April 2018

Rana Plaza Anniversary; New Fashion Revolution Video

Spine tinglingly stunning!

Group: Platform on Responsible Management of the Supply Chain in the Garment Sector
Good practice - Employment, Migration & Informal economy: remittances for businesses and job creation

Pierre Berman posted Information | 24 April 2018

Within the category of vulnerable people, migrants belong to one of the groups often likely to depend on informal economy, especially those without a regular work permit or living in an illegal situation. The situation of migrants in host countries is also linked to the condition of familiar in the...

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Group: Informal Economy Support Facility
Gauthier Bas commented on information | 24 April 2018

Rana Plaza Anniversary; New Fashion Revolution Video

great video, congrats to the team who produced it.

Group: Platform on Responsible Management of the Supply Chain in the Garment Sector
Rana Plaza Anniversary; New Fashion Revolution Video

Eoin Kelly posted Information | 24 April 2018

This week we commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh, which took the lives of over 1,100 people. Such events are a tragic reminder of the importance of supporting better working conditions for all workers involved in garment production and enhanced...

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Group: Platform on Responsible Management of the Supply Chain in the Garment Sector
The LAB: Market systems development for decent work

Pierre Berman posted Information | 18 April 2018

Following the topic of the last post on rural development and value chain extracted from the Volume 4.3, development, here is a presentation of “the LAB” project, an ILO initiative similar to the RNSF project. The lab is a three-year research and knowledge generation project on how to measure and...

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Group: Informal Economy Support Facility
Social cohesion, employment, and decent work in informal economy: good practices and lessons learned from EC-funded projects in Volume 4.1

Pierre Berman posted Information | 12 April 2018

As part of its activities of research, the RNSF has disseminated knowledge and best practices related to the informal economy since 2015 on the IESF group . One of the first outputs is the Volume 4.1 Good Practices and Lessons Learned Extracted from 33 Projects selected under the 2009 EC Call for...

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Group: Informal Economy Support Facility
Mei Zegers commented on information | 11 April 2018

Support to youth empowerment in the informal economy

For your information, Arsen, this summary was extracted from an evaluation report. It did not include, unfortunately, many other details on the extent to which they may have included employment related training. For further details you can go to the document 4.3 cited at the end of the summary...

Group: Informal Economy Support Facility
Arsen Manukyan commented on information | 9 April 2018

Support to youth empowerment in the informal economy

Dear Pierre, The Project seems very impressive and extremely useful. My congratulations for successful implementation of it. I would like to ask question about employment of young people, because employment is very effective tool for overcoming an exclusion of young people. Did Project include...

Group: Informal Economy Support Facility
Support to youth empowerment in the informal economy

Pierre Berman updated the Information | 9 April 2018

Youth often are a key target group among vulnerable people, in particular for governments and development programmes. As they are the adults of tomorrow, their exclusion of the social and economic life represents a huge loss of human and economical capital. For this reason, it is of primary...

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Group: Informal Economy Support Facility

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