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The World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) comes just one month after a major Global Conference on Child Labour held in The Hague, Netherlands, the first event of its kind for more than 10 years. The World Day will provide an early opportunity for national and local activities to follow up on...

Rework the World is a global initiative that brings together the best local initiatives from around the world - those that can create new employment opportunities and speed up the change towards a sustainable society - with the aim of creating new employment opportunities for youth all over the world...

A new Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit for Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools has been developed by FAO to provide guidance on several core tools for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is an important aspect to undertake in a project or programme and supports managers to assess the...

More attention should be paid to the plight of child workers in the fisheries sector, according to a group of experts convened by FAO and the International Labour Organization (ILO) in order to shine light on this often-overlooked problem. "Worldwide, 132 million girls and boys aged 5 to 14 years old...

FAO - in partnership with the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the Ministry of Youth and Sport, Youth Development Association and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) - has recently published a case study report on “Promoting Employment...

FAO, in cooperation with the ILO, is organizing a 2,5 days workshop on child labour in fisheries and aquaculture which will be hosted at FAO headquarters from 14 - 16 April 2010. The workshop participants will exchange and discuss knowledge, good practices and experiences on the nature, incidence and causes of...

The United Nations International Day of Cooperatives, declared by the United Nations in 1995, is celebrated annually on the first Saturday of July. It underscores the contribution of the cooperative movement to resolving global issues addressed jointly by the cooperative movement and the United Nations. The aim of the International Day...

218 million children under 18 years of age are involved in child labour. 70% of them -more than 150 million - are working in agriculture, where children comprise a third of the workforce. On the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) 2009, a joint event was organized by...

Rural employment was presented as an information document at the 21st session of the Committee on Agriculture 2009 (COAG), held at FAO’s headquarters in Rome from the 22nd to the 25th of April. The document, titled “Elements of an FAO Rural Employment Strategy - Productive, Fair and Just Employment for Rural Development...

FAO, IFAD and ILO are pleased to announce a three-day technical expert workshop on “Gaps, trends and current research in gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: differentiated pathways out of poverty”. It will be held in Rome, from 31 March to 2 April 2009, at Casa San Bernardo (Via...