Work based learning
Shifting gears – Sri Lanka’s women crane operators
Upeksha, Nimasha, Ruchini, and Nethmi are among the handful of women transfer crane operators in Sri Lanka's Colombo port. They are participants of ILO supported work-based training programme that's empowering women break stereotypes and take up careers in the largely male dominated maritime industry.
ILO's ‘Supporting the Socio-economic Reintegration of Sri Lankan Migrant Workers Repatriated due to the COVID-19 Outbreak’ project’s maritime sector training programme rolled out in partnership with the Mahapola Ports & Maritime Academy, and National Union of Seafarers (NUSS), is seeing success in enhancing skills and job prospects for women to pursue employment in the maritime industry, breaking barriers, and shifting mindsets.The project is supported by the Government of Japan.