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The ILO Governing Body at its March 2011 session issued a Report confirming ILO’s mandate and capacity in rural areas, calling to strengthen further ILO’s work targeting decent work deficits that impede rural communities to realize their potential as engines of growth, good jobs creation, sustainable and equitable development, and crisis resilience. The...

A training course on child labour in agriculture: "Harvesting a future without child labour: eliminating harmful practices in agriculture" will be held from 9-13 May 2011 at the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO), Turin, Italy. This one-week course takes a broad view in looking at child labour in agriculture...

The Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) has declared, during its last Executive Council held in January 2009 in Addis Ababa, the years 2009-2019 as the decade of youth development in Africa. The decade is an opportunity to advance the agenda of youth development in all member...

FAO implements a number of projects promoting gender equality among Palestinians by increasing the agricultural opportunities available to women, at the same time enabling the beneficiaries to secure income and improve food security for themselves and their families. During the past years trainings on agricultural techniques and innovations as well as...

Friday 21st January, FAO, IFAD and ILO will launch a report on the Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: Differentiated pathways out of poverty. The event will discuss how gender equality in rural employment can contribute to poverty reduction and food security, boosting local economies and rural development.Policies, case studies and...

The Guidance on how to address rural employment and decent work concerns in FAO country activities has been just produced by FAO with technical assistance from the ILO. The document is the outcome of a longstanding and fruitful collaboration between the two organizations for the promotion of decent and productive employment in rural...

FAO, the ILO and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) have joined forces to support the creation of more and better jobs, noting that decent work in the agricultural sector was key to combat the persisting rural poverty in the region. Despite economic growth, an increase in...

FAO is pleased to announce the publication of two JFFLS Facilitator’s Guide modules, which are a concrete example of the multidisciplinary approach at the basis of the JFFLS programme.The manual on Child labour prevention in agriculture, which is a valuable outcome of the collaboration between FAO and ILO, provides exercises and...

In the frame of the collaboration between FAO and ILO, on June 17th this year, the two Organizations have signed a Letter of Agreement for the development of a Guidance document on How to Address Rural Employment and Decent Work Concerns in FAO Country Activities.Specifically, the Guidance is intended to assist...

On 19-20 July 2010, the second meeting of the International Partnership for Cooperation on Child Labour in Agriculture was held in FAO Headquarters, Rome (Italy).  Following the “The Hague Global Child Labour Conference in  May 2010, the partnership members  met for a two day meeting in Rome an agreed upon: i) regions and...