Resources on work, peace and resilience (Employment promotion)

Voices

Having an income reduces HIV stigma and discrimination

01 March 2024

Sixty-year old Regina Katungu Chileshe is an entrepreneur living with HIV in Zambia. She is a member of an HIV support group that works to overcome stigma in the community, thanks to an income generation project supported by the International Labour Organization and UNAIDS.

ILO in action

We help migrant domestic workers overcome the pandemic

15 December 2021

ILO Senior Labour Migration Specialist, Gloria Moreno-Fontes, speaks from Pretoria about the Southern Africa Migration Management (SAMM) Project, which aims to improve migration management in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region. The project is funded by the European Commission and implemented by the ILO in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

2030 Development Agenda

Zambia: How to tackle four development goals in a single project

31 August 2015

A new ILO-FAO agricultural employment project underway in Zambia aims to create 3000 additional decent jobs for rural youth, increase their incomes and tackle nutritional deficiencies. In so doing, it works towards four of the new sustainable development goals.

Youth employment

Sweden joins ILO initiative in Zambia for rural youth

03 September 2013

The ILO-led UN Joint Programme with FAO on decent work and food security will create job opportunities for young entrepreneurs along agricultural value chains and will boost food security for rural populations in Zambia.