Resources on Green Jobs

  1. IsDB-ILO Youth Green Skills Accelerator Challenge Call 2023

    From crises to resilience: Empowering Youth for a Greener Future

    02 May 2023

    The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) invite youth-led non-for-profit organizations to propose new and innovative green ideas and solutions that support training processes for young people living in post-crisis situations.

  2. iUPSHIFT programme

    Innovation pitches from youth mentors

    15 March 2023

    Through iUPSHIFT programme, youth mentors trained by the ILO and UNICEF in Uganda on social entrepreneurship and life skills, developed innovative ideas to improve waste management and sustainable energy production.

  3. Project

    Green Works Based on Labour-Intensive Local Technologies in Burkina Faso

    14 March 2023

    Using the green works approach, this project aims to demonstrate, document, and analyse traditional soil restoration techniques and to gather the data necessary for policies and programmes at a larger and more systematic scale.

  4. Regional Seminar

    The 19th Regional Seminar for Labour-based Practitioners

    Sharing views, experiences and reviewing developments in employment-intensive approaches to creating communities that are resilient to socio-economic, environmental and climate change hazards.

  5. Side event – COP 27

    Social debates around the climate action of private sector: challenges for a just and inclusive transition

    This event will seek to show the essential role that the private sector and social partners must play in the implementation of responses to the challenges posed by climate change in the MENA region and more particularly in Tunisia.

  6. Side event – COP 27

    Food security and local climate action in Tunisia

    The Side Event will cover the practical aspects of implementing local climate action and managing it. The side event will involve discussions on success factors, obstacles encountered, resolution of problems and the ways of scaling up these projects

  7. Event

    Greening Enterprises: Transforming processes and workplaces

    Report Launch

  8. The custom mercury-free gold milling plant established by the ILO in Guruve, Zimbabwe under the Youth and Women Empowerment Project

    ILO Regional Director for Africa Visits AfDB-ILO Custom Mercury Free Gold Milling Plant in Zimbabwe.

    02 November 2022

    As part of her mission to Zimbabwe, the Assistant Director General and Regional Director of the ILO, Ms Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, visited an AfDB funded project site in Guruve district, where the ILO has supported the establishment of a custom mercury free gold milling plant.

  9. Event

    Closing workshop of the U.N. Partnership for Action on the Green Economy (PAGE) in Senegal

  10. Article

    Empowering women to participate in the green transition of Mbao, Senegal

    25 August 2022

    Training of market gardening groups and women farmers from the classified forest of Mbao with ILO's Start and Improve Your (Green) Business tool.