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New Director for ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives appointed
Ms Joni Simpson assumes duties on 15 January 2024.
ILO organizes regional technical meeting on statistics of international labour migration and migrant recruitment costs in South Asia
A sub-regional meeting on labour migration brought together government, social partners, CSOs and academia to discuss and identify issues, challenges and more importantly to develop action plans to better measure, analyze and disseminate labour migration data.
Technical Experts Meeting on South Asia Qualifications Reference Framework (SAQRF)
The Qualifications Framework will ease the movement of workers and students across the region and bring equal opportunities and fairness in the recruitment process.
ILO, IOM and UN Women Joint Press Statement
The Governance of Labour Migration in South and South-East Asia (GOALS) Programme Supports Sustainable and Inclusive Labour Migration Governance Frameworks in the Region.
On this International Migrants' Day, the world lauds the socio-cultural and economic contributions of the 169 million migrant workers around the world, who help boost economies and strengthen the social fabric of communities.
Green jobs
Maldives: The Employment - Environment - Climate Nexus: Employment and environmental sustainability factsheet
The Employment-Environment-Climate Nexus Factsheets are a series produced for countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This Factsheet provides key features of labour market and environmental sustainability performance in Maldives, as well as vulnerability to climate change and sectors with green jobs potential.
South Asia Qualifications Referencing Framework: Technical Meeting#2
South Asia Qualifications Referencing Framework: Technical Meeting#1
Under the auspices of GOALS (Governance of Labour Migration in South and South East Asia) ILO is assisting South Asian member states, through a consultative process to develop and implement Regional Qualifications Framework. As part of this process, first Regional Technical Meeting of the initiative was organized on 15 and 16 February 2022. This report is a documentation of the proceedings and outcomes of the first Technical Meeting.
Joint Media Release - South Asia Member States working together to develop a regional qualifications reference framework
Occupational safety and health
Decent work for sanitation workers in South Asia under the spotlight
A recent workshop highlighted existing challenges and opportunities, as well as actions taken by the ILO, governments and social partners to address decent work deficits facing sanitation workers in South Asia.
Interview
10 years on from the ILO Domestic Workers Convention: What has changed?
Over half of the world’s domestic workers are in Asia and the Pacific. 10 years on from the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), Anna Olsen, Technical Specialist at the International Labour Organization’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme, discusses progress made and ongoing challenges for ensuring decent work for domestic workers in the region.
Training Policy Brief
Protecting Migrant Workers in Maldives
This policy brief presents the situation of the migrant workers in Maldives and proposes several policy recommendations. It calls for the establishment of an authoritative body to closely monitor migrant situation and rectify matters urgently by ratifying best practices and conventions.
Report
Towards resilient social dialogue in South Asia
The report is a collation of key social dialogue mechanisms in South Asia, their responses to the COVID-19 crisis and actions to build resilience compiled by ILO DWT/CO-New Delhi
Guidelines for the establishment of an enterprise-level COVID-19 Task Force
The Decent Work Team for South Asia, in consultation with the Bureaux for Employers and Workers’ Activities and INWORK, have developed guidelines to inform and encourage the formation of COVID-19 Task Forces at an enterprise-level.
Press release
The Maldives Celebrates the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Century of Advancing Social Justice and Decent Work
The centenary celebrations were graced by His H.E. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, President of the Republic of the Maldives.
Minimum wage
The Maldives minimum wage report
Following an official request of the Government of the Maldives, the ILO conducted a study on assessing the needs of workers and their families, and economic factor to set a minimum wage for the country.
Fact sheet
Employment and environmental sustainability in Maldives
The Employment and Environmental Sustainability Fact Sheets series provides key indicators of employment and environmental sustainability performance. They include: (i) employment in environmental sectors; (ii) skill levels; (iii) vulnerability of jobs; (iv) jobs in renewable energy; and (v) scoring on the Environmental Performance Index.
Press release
ILO and UNFCCC conducts Asia-Pacific region workshop on climate change responses and transition to decent work
The International Labour Organization (ILO) along with the UN Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) organized an Asia-Pacific region workshop to discuss maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative impacts of implementing climate change response measures.
Country leaflet
The ILO in Maldives
This Country Leaflet gives an overview of ILO activities in Maldives. It summarizes the ILO’s history in the country, and outlines the work undertaken by the ILO in cooperation with the government and social partners on a wide range of work and workplace issues.
Labour migration
International labour migration statistics in South Asia: Establishing a subregional database and improving data collection for evidence-based policy-making
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of statistics related to labour migration from South Asia. It also includes conversations on developments and trends in labour migration, migrant worker attributes, and associated thematic areas in the sub-region.
Press release
New Country Director for the ILO Office in Sri Lanka and the Maldives
Ms Simrin Singh has officially taken over as the new Country Director for the ILO Country Office for the Sri Lanka and the Maldives on 1st April 2017.