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ILO’s Opportunity Salone Programme empowers youths in Bombali district
Makeni, the headquarter town of Bombali district, receives huge support from the ILO’s Opportunity Salone Programme funded by the EU, to maintain 14km feeder roads and thereby create links within the communities, providing decent jobs for unskilled Sierra Leoneans to address rural household poverty.
EU-Funded Program Transforms Sierra Leone's Rural Roads, Empowering Communities and Bolstering Economic Growth
In a remarkable collaborative effort, the International Labor Organization (ILO), with funding from European Union (EU), executes crucial routine maintenance on approximately 33.05 kilometres of roads in the Bo, Kenema, Bombali, and Port Loko Districts. This initiative seeks to not only connect communities but also create vital access to markets, fostering economic growth and significantly improving the lives of residents.
ILO OPPORTUNITY SALONE LAUNCHES ITS MAIDEN KNOWLEDGE SHARING EVENT IN SIERRA LEONE
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) convened a knowledge sharing event on the Opportunity Salone Programme in Freetown, Sierra Leone in December 2023. The Knowledge share events brought together SME businesses to discuss and share ideas on what has worked and possible areas of improvement of the ILO Opportunity Salone programme. The EU-funded programme supports SME businesses in Sierra Leone to contribute to the Feed Salone agenda which is geared towards making Sierra Leone food sufficient in the next few years.
ILO Intervention Boost Vegetable Farming in Port Loko District
ILO Opportunity Salone Programme is bridging the gap in the vegetable value chain by creating access to good seeds, tools, finances, and direct training for farmers to scale up production processes, backed by the funding support from the EU, in Sierra Leone.
ILO Empowers Sierra Leonean SMEs in Palm Oil Production
The Opportunity Salone Programme, supported by the EU, is propelling positive transformation in Sierra Leone's palm oil industry. Through capacity building and access to finance, the program contributes to the creation of 4,000 jobs for men, women and persons with disabilities.
EU-Funded Program Transforms Sierra Leone's Rural Roads, Empowering Communities and Bolstering Economic Growth
In a remarkable collaborative effort, the International Labor Organization (ILO), with funding from European Union (EU), executes crucial routine maintenance on approximately 30.5 kilometres of roads in the Bo, Kenema, Bombali, and Port Loko Districts. This initiative seeks to not only connect communities but also create vital access to markets, fostering economic growth and significantly improving the lives of residents.
EU-Funded Opportunity Salone Programme, Supports Entrepreneurs for Job Creation
The Opportunity Salone is set up to promote the creation of decent jobs and increase livelihoods of the Sierra Leonean Youths, Women, and Persons living with disabilities across the districts of Bombali, Port Loko, Bo, and Kenema districts respectively.
ILO, Government of Sierra Leone and Social Partners Launch The SL-DWCP II 2023-2027 in Freetown
With the financial and technical assistance provided by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Government of Sierra Leone and Social Partners formulated the second-generation Decent Work Country Programme (SL-DWCP) 2023 – 2027 which was launched on 25th May 2023.
ILO provides training on cooperatives in Bo City, Sierra Leone
The training of trainers (ToT) workshops took place under the ILO’s Opportunity Salone project utilizing Think.Coop, Start.Coop, and My.Coop training packages.
The Government of Sierra Leone Through NASSIT in collaboration with the ILO trains members of the technical and steering committee on the extension of coverage to the informal economy
The government of Sierra Leone through the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations have kickstarted a new initiative to extend social protection to the informal sector.
FCC, UNCDF, ILO AND PARTNERS LAUNCH THE WOMEN FOR WATER AND PEACE (W4WP) UNITED NATIONS PEACEBUILDING PROJECT
Freetown City Council (FCC), the United Nations Capital Development (UNCDF) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), together with their implementing partners, have today launched the “Women for Water and Peace” (W4WP) Project at the New City Hall in Freetown. The project is funded by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund.
Call for consultant: Supply and demand of financial services for agricultural value chains in Sierra Leone
The ILO is looking for a consultant to update and complement a review of Sierra Leone’s financial services sector. The review focuses on internal and external value chain finance and will build on earlier ILO assessments in 2017 and 2020. The review will include a mapping of existing approaches, gaps and potential entry points for the financial sector in the agricultural value chain as well as identifying potential actors in agricultural value chains that would benefit from it. The deadline for submitting applications is 10 May 2022.
Maritime Labour Convention
Sierra Leone ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)
Sierra Leone became the 99th Member State of the ILO to ratify the Convention.
International Labour Standards
Sierra Leone is founding crisis recovery and resilience on international labour standards
Sierra Leone’s historic ratification of 9 ILO instruments was marked in a virtual ceremony with the ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder.
ILO Secures €8 Million from EU for Projects in Sierra Leone
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has signed an €8 million partnership agreement with European Union for implementation of feeder road maintenance and youth entrepreneurship programme in agricultural value chain in Sierra Leone.
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Media Advisory- Event to mark the World Day Against Child Labour in Africa
Join us for a regional virtual event to commemorate the World Day against Child Labour.
AU, ILO and UNICEF mark the World Day against Child Labour in Africa
The African Union, ILO and UNICEF organized a virtual Continental event to mark the World Day against Child Labour. The event brought together key actors, to discuss strategies to address child labour, taking a holistic and systemic approach based on the 2020 Global Estimates on Child Labour and related recommendations, which had been launched by the ILO and UNICEF on 10 June.
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Opening remarks by Ms Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, ILO Assistant Director-General, Regional Director for Africa at the event to mark the World Day Against Child Labour in Africa
I commit the Office to work as one ILO to mainstream child labour issues into all relevant areas of work of the Abidjan Declaration implementation plan, in order to maximize our contribution to ending child labour in Africa. We will work closely with our tripartite Constituents to do so
Youth delegates call for systematic changes to global youth employment policies
Young leaders at the ILO Global Youth Employment Forum in Nigeria highlight need for better jobs, entrepreneurship, training and rights.
ILO PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR ECOWAS LABOUR MARKET GOVERNANCE
In order to strengthen dialogue, coordination and collaboration among Member States in the Labour and Employment fields within the region, the ECOWAS Commission organised a 3-day General Assembly of the ECOWAS Tripartite Social Dialogue Forum in Abuja.