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| 30 years of Social Finance |
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Idea generation contest:
Social Finance and the Future of Work
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| To mark its 30-year anniversary, Social Finance is organizing a contest to conceptualize the Future of Work and Finance. What do you think are the financial sector issues that the ILO should be looking at and thinking about? What will drive future changes in the intersection between finance and the world of work? Enter the contest by sharing your proposal. |
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Theory of change: enterprise formalization for decent work
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| Enterprise formalization means bringing enterprises under the regulation with the advantages and obligations that this entails. In order to measure informality among economic units, it is necessary to determine a) to what extent economic units are registered with the relevant agencies at the national level, and b) to what extent they comply with the regulations that apply to them. The Theory of Change on enterprise formalization describes how formalization can lead to more sustainable enterprises and decent work. Read more |
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Beyond the Known
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| The second edition of the Beyond the Known conference will be held online on 26 - 27 - 28 October 2021. The conference aims at bringing together a diverse range of practitioners in the field of entrepreneurship and MSME promotion to foster a global community of practice and to facilitate exchange and peer learning on the latest developments and on the effective solutions that are being piloted in this domain. The participation to the event is free. Register now |
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Campaign launch on "Rethinking Food Heritage with Decent Work" in Bolivia
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The ILO and the Movimiento de Integración Gastronómico Alimentario de Bolivia (MIGA) join efforts to launch an awareness campaign to promote sustainable development and decent work in the Bolivian quinoa and coffee sectors. It aims to augment impact of actions developed with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) participating in the new SCORE Agroexports programme. Read more |
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Blue or pink, boy or girl? How Gender Biases Influence Work Environments
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The SCORE Program in Colombia conducted an experiment by inviting over 700 people from different enterprises, unions and public entities to answer whether a baby in the photograph shown was a girl or a boy. This experiment was aimed at uncovering unconscious gender biases and stereotypes that help understand discrimination, including wage gaps and unemployment in the world of work today. Read more |
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Emerging Insight: Exploring digital solutions in Mexico
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| A new study in Mexico has identified chatbot technology as a low-cost option for insurers to improve a range of customer interactions from sales to claims. Together with the Mexican insurance association, AMIS, the ILO investigated the potential of a range of digital solutions to support inclusive insurance in the country. Read more |
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Launch of UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments
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| To realize their potential, digital payments need to work every time. They need to be fair, transparent and accountable - and offer recourse if they fail. The UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments is a new resource from our partner the Better Than Cash Alliance, dedicated to ensuring payment digitization is user-centric, inclusive and sustainable. Read more |
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Promoting sustainable entrepreneurship through business incubators, accelerators and innovation hubs
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| Incubators, accelerators, innovation hubs, centres of excellence and entrepreneurship hubs are springing up across the globe as new types of organizations that support and promote entrepreneurship. It is crucial to understand whether these innovation organizations can sustainably contribute to long-term enterprise and job creation or have a longer-term impact on local entrepreneurship ecosystems. This publication tries to build an understanding on how innovation organizations work and how they can be strengthened within their local entrepreneurship ecosystem to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate sustainable business growth. Read more |
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Documenting the achievements of the EESE programme in Mozambique
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| A case study of the pilot project “Resilient Business in Beira", this report contains testimonials of how the implementation of activities that follow the EESE assessment and action planning facilitated and boosted business resilience. It is part of a series of case studies on what works and what doesn't for business environment reform that the EESE team and its partners have been documenting over the past years. Read more |
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Tripartite coordination mechanism on business growth, investment and decent jobs
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| This document presents a framework that the ILO and Ghana’s tripartite stakeholders prepared to address barriers that hinder the creation and growth of sustainable enterprises. The document argues that the inadequate business environment is a fundamental obstacle to business development and the creation of formal jobs in Ghana. The proposal presents a Tripartite Coordination Mechanism (TCM) on the business environment that will champion interventions to respond to the pandemic’s negative impact on enterprises, and advocate for concrete improvements in the business environment. Read more |
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International labour standards and corporate social responsibility: the labour dimension of human rights due diligence
This course aims to strengthen the capacity of participants to understand the principles of international labour standards as they relate to company operations (including due diligence related to labour rights) and how those principles can be most effectively implemented in company operations. The course will be offered online through the ITCILO e-campus over a period of 4 weeks and includes technical learning webinars allowing for interactions with experts and co-participants, self-guided learning and short task-oriented assignments.
Application deadline: 16 October |
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Insurance for Development
The ILO's Impact Insurance Facility and the International Training Centre of the ILO are excited to announce a second edition of our successful online course, “Insurance for Development”. Do you want to promote quality insurance for low-income households, small businesses and other underserved markets? And do this without compromising the bottom line of your organization? Then join us!
Application deadline: 8 October 2021 |
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Financial education programme design and implementation: a course for policy-makers and practitioners
This course focuses on designing and implementing financial education strategies. Participants will discuss experiences, lessons learned and international practical knowledge gained in this field. They will be provided with relevant tools, frameworks and instruments, and will consider the best practices applied by various institutions and actors globally. As an outcome of the course, participants will design financial-education outreach strategies for various target groups, produce specific action plans, and prepare for implementation.
Application deadline: 14 October 2021 |
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Fostering green business growth
Environmental challenges, including climate change, are changing the way businesses work, either because they are forced to or because they proactively seek to. Green businesses are more profitable and future proof. This course targets policy makers and business service providers involved in the design and implementation of national or local strategies and instruments to support the greening of businesses, providing both a conceptual and practical overview of how to support SMEs going green.
Application deadline: 10 November 2021 |
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Productivity ecosystem for decent work: a course for policy-makers and practitioners
This training course enhances the skills of policy-makers and practitioners in assessing and designing policies to improve productivity and working conditions in SMEs. The course aims to inspire policy-makers and practitioners to adopt a systemic approach to SME productivity that encompasses an effective combination of macro- and meso-level policies, the creation of a conducive business environment and the strengthening of SME support institutions, together with intervention at the enterprise level.
Application deadline: 17 December 2021 |
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VIRTUAL REALITY GAMES
Entrepreneurship games through Virtual Reality: Training of Trainers
This training of trainers combines Virtual Reality with entrepreneurship games. It is designed for entrepreneurship trainers and educators who see the potential of both gamification and VR. This very first ToT will enable participants to: 1) get to know the ILO entrepreneurship games, 2) play and interact with their peers in the VR space, 3) use the entrepreneurship games in future face-to-face or VR trainings. For registration contact m.gasser@itcilo.org.
Application deadline: 12 November 2021 |
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Responsible Business – Meeting Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains
This free course assists SMEs in better understanding the increased expectations from international buyers and consuming countries on responsible business. SMEs can learn in a practical way how to improve their compliance with national legislation and adherence to principles of International Labour Standards, and come to realize that respecting workers' rights and improving working conditions can be part of a competitive business strategy. Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. |
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