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Work-Based Learning Programme for vulnerable communities affected by earthquakes in Aleppo, Syria: An Explainer
EIIP regional workshop
Employment Intensive Investment Programme workshop highlights success stories and future roadmap for sustainable development
ILO initiative strengthens engineers’ capacities in post-earthquake Syria
An ILO workshop has provided engineers in Aleppo in northern Syrian with structural damage assessment equipment and trained them on its use, to support rehabilitating infrastructure and buildings damaged by last year’s earthquake.
Our impact, their voices
After the earthquake: ILO projects contribute to recovery in Syria
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is helping communities in the city of Aleppo to rebuild after the earthquake in 2023.
Voices
My work with earthquake survivors in Türkiye gives me purpose
When multiple earthquakes struck Türkiye and Syria on 6 February 2023, Jin Dawod set to work matching survivors with therapists through her platform Peace Therapist. A Syrian refugee living in Türkiye, she knows first-hand how critical psycho-social support is to help people recover from trauma.
Japan to support employment-intensive recovery in the earthquake-hit areas in Aleppo, Syria
Rehabilitating Dreams: The Human Voices behind Aleppo's School Rehabilitation Project
In the heart of Aleppo, amidst the rubble left by earthquakes, a beacon of hope emerged through the International Labour Organization (ILO)’s project to rehabilitate and revive three schools in Aleppo.
ILO progresses in second phase of Aleppo employment-intensive community restoration project after earthquake
The ILO continues restoring local community health and safety by providing job opportunities in clearing rubble and debris from the neighbourhoods most affected by the February 2023 earthquake.
ILO Workshop aimed to boost agricultural cooperatives in Lebanon and Iraq and foster knowledge exchange
The PROSPECTS Programme held a Training of Trainers workshop to address the needs of agricultural cooperatives in the region, raise awareness about their work, and enhance local capacities by establishing a network of qualified trainers.
ILO conducts a training of trainers for tripartite partners on Occupational Safety and Health in Syria
The training equipped participants with expertise in the field of occupational safety and health in various sectors of economic activity, especially in the construction sector.
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Entrepreneurship has no boundaries
New ILO project to rehabilitate schools damaged by earthquakes in Aleppo, Syria
The project aims to address immediate livelihood needs of the affected communities through the creation of decent job opportunities, training local contractors in the application of labour-based technologies, and restoring safe access to education.
Needs of households and workers in Syria
Earthquake adds further financial burden to already struggling households and workers in Aleppo
Many families are facing difficulties finding work and a stable source of income following the earthquake which hit the Syrian city of Aleppo in February 2023.
Jobs that help neighbourhoods recover from the earthquakes
Following the earthquakes that hit Syria and Türkiye earlier this year, ILO infrastructure recovery works engaged communities in clearing debris and rubble in Aleppo, making many streets accessible and creating hundreds of short-term jobs
Voices
A job changed my life as a refugee
War in Syria forced Syrian Abdel Halim al Qasir and his family to flee to the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. Becoming a facilitator for the ILO’s Job Search Club project and helping other refugees inside the camp find new careers and job opportunities, has given him renewed hope for his and his family’s future.
Decent work key to resilience of Syrians and host communities
Syrian displaced persons and refugees, and the communities that host them, need concrete decent work opportunities, and to move from receiving assistance to generating income, the ILO says at the Brussels Conference on supporting Syria and the region.
ILO promotes early recovery through community resilience in earthquake-damaged Aleppo
The ILO Regional Director for Arab States Ruba Jaradat visits the Syrian city of Aleppo to inaugurate the project “Early Recovery through Community Resilience in Aleppo’s Earthquake-hit Neighbourhoods” and hand over earthquake structural damage assessment equipment to local engineers.
People with disabilities and women inclusion
The ILO embarks on providing more opportunities for persons with disabilities and women to have equal access into the labour market
The ILO organized a workshop on “Supported Transition to Employment for Persons with Disabilities and Women in the Labour Market” with ILO’s implementing partners in Gaziantep; Bursa; Istanbul and Ankara and discussed how to lift the barriers for embracing people with disabilities, calling for equal access to employment opportunities that will benefit all.
ILO creates infrastructure jobs in earthquake-hit Syrian city
An employment-intensive project creates decent jobs for community members affected by the earthquakes in the Syrian city of Aleppo, while rehabilitating infrastructure in damaged neighbourhoods.
Maritime Labour Convention
Syrian Arab Republic ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)
Syria is the 103rd Member State of the ILO to have ratified the Convention