The ILO's Social Finance has started a new collaboration with Sida to develop an impact monitoring system for Sida’s guarantee instrument. The instrument has matured in recent years, with the aim of sharing risk between public and private actors to mobilize additional capital to finance sustainable development. Read More

Ghana is the first country to designate the national investment promotion agency as one of the national focal points to promote the MNE Declaration and the application of its principles. Read More

As part of the ILO’s PROSPECT programme, the ILO social Finance have signed an agreement with Al-Thiqa, a microfinance organization in Iraq. Under this agreement, start-up and existing entrepreneurs will benefit from non-financial services, including business management and financial education, helping them to manage their enterprises, finances and their relationship with financial institutions. This intervention is the first of its kind in Iraq reaching encamped and urban refugees and it builds upon our ongoing financial inclusion model with the Central Bank of Iraq. Read more

Under the PROSPECTS programme, the ILO and its partners are imparting business management skills to upskill enterprises owned by refugee and host communities in Turkana County, Kenya. ILO’s globally acclaimed tools, such as the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) , Gender and Entrepreneurship Together (GET Ahead)  and Financial Education training programmes, are steering the development of entrepreneurial skills and promotion of start-ups in the communities. Read more

Two implementing partners of ILO’s Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) programme in Indonesia has adapted and modified the SCORE Training programme to maintain its sustainability and to meet different needs of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Read more