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Skills Development for Increased Employability Programme
The four-year Skills Development for Increased Employability Programme (SDEP), launched in 2023, strengthens the relevance, quality and governance of the TEVET system, and encourages greater participation of the private sector in skills development initiatives that respond to the needs of industry, in a greener economy. Funded through a partnership agreement with the European Union (EU), the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Zambia is working to support the Government and private actors to focus on the governance and management structures of Zambia’s Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TEVET) system and to support the upgrading and maintenance of training facilities and curriculum development. Private sector involvement plays an important role in updating curricula and for the promotion of Work Based Learning (WBL) interventions. The overall objective is to contribute towards improving employability of the labour force for both women and men in Zambia and supporting the TEVET system towards producing relevant skills that match the needs of the industry by the year 2026.
Teaching and the teaching profession in a digital world: COVID-19 and beyond
STRENGTHEN2
Employment impact assessment to maximize job creation in Africa
ILO Conventions application
Trade for Decent Work Project
With funding from the European Union and the Government of Finland, in Mozambique, the project seeks to support improvement of the application of the ILO fundamental Conventions in EU trading partner countries through improved labor relations and working conditions. It is part of the global project “Trade for Decent Work”, that, besides Mozambique, is also being implemented in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Myanmar, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Cabo Verde, Côte D’Ivoire, Ghana and Madagascar.
Child labour: ARISE II
ARISE II - Global Training Programme: Elimination of child labour in tobacco-growing communities
Testing methodologies to support informal economy workers and small producers to combat hazardous child labour in their own sectors (India Component with IndustriALL Global)
The project aims to build the capacity of informal economy workers to address hazardous child labour.
Rural Youth Enterprise for Food Security Programme
The Decent Jobs for Employment and Improved Food Security Programme is aimed at creating decent jobs for through the development of sustainable rural Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. The programme had a target of creating 3,000 jobs for young people and to improve the performance of 5,000 rural and peri-urban enterprises. Early on the project highlighted the focus on enterprise development for income for youths through employment or self-employment in the belief that increased income would lead to greater food security. To better reflect the youth entrepreneurship emphasis the project re-branded as Yapasa – Youth in Agribusiness.
Integrated Actions towards Improved and more Equitable Working Conditions for Vulnerable Groups of Workers
The project is Phase 2 of the SIDA funded programme and is oriented towards building national capacities and facilitating sound legal, policy and institutional measures, which are designed to strengthen workers protection and improve working conditions in the domestic work sector
Freedom of association
Promoting Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in the Zambian Mining Sector - Project
Promoting Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in the Zambian Mining Sector
The Project with the support of the Social Partners and ILO will try to address the current challenges of Labour relations and employment matters in the mining sector.
Freedom of association
Promoting the Right to Freedom of Association and the Right to Collective Bargaining (Phase II) in Zambia - Project
Building National Floors of Social Protection in Southern Africa
This project will assist in bringing ILO expertise to strengthening basic social protection systems in Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. The project will provide technical support to constituents through assistance to on-going processes of national dialogue, in harmony with coordinated efforts by UN and bilateral cooperating partners.
Promoting Rights and Opportunities for People with Disabilities in Employment through Legislation (PROPEL -Zambia)
PROPEL aims at improving access of young women and men with disabilities to mainstream skills development programmes
Zambia: Green Jobs in the building construction sector
The Zambia Green Jobs Programme aims to create sustainable and green jobs among micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the building construction industry.
Green Jobs Programme in the building construction sector
The joint UN project “Enhancing Competitiveness and Sustainable Business among MSMEs in building Constructions” aims to create sustainable and green jobs among micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the Zambian building construction industry.
UN Joint Programme on Gender Based Violence
This Programme is developed to support the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) under Ministry of Gender and Child Development in implementing the support for institutional transformation to facilitate the implementation of Zambia’s Anti-GBV Act.
Joint UN Program on Gender-based Violence in Zambia
The programme is supporting the Zambian government in implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against women; and to support the implementation of Zambia’s Anti-Gender Based Violence Act.
Joint UN Program on Gender-based Violence in Zambia
The programme is supporting the Zambian government in implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against women; and to support the implementation of Zambia’s Anti-Gender Based Violence Act.
Child labour: ARISE I Zambia
ARISE I: A Programme to combat child labour in tobacco-growing communities in Zambia
ARISE 2
Achieving Reduction of child labor In Support of Education