ILO training materials and courses

ILO, Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) training

ILO, Enhancing Labour-Based Construction Management: Key Resources to Strengthen Knowledge and Training in Labour-Based Construction for Planners, Engineers, Technicians, and Contractors

ITCILO, EIIP Course listing

Global perspectives on the intervention

ILO, ILO Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) and the Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus (HDPN), 2023

Local perspectives on the intervention

Lebanon: ILO, EIIP Lebanon website

Sudan: ILO, ‘ILO’s infrastructure investments resolve health and water access challenges in Sudan’, ILO news release, 22 December 2022

Sudan: ILO, ‘Local Economic Development Committees to guide and support PROSPECTS programming and implementation in Sudan’, ILO news release, 22 December 2022

Iraq: ILO, The EIIP Approach, Experiences and Lessons Learned: Contributions to the Humanitarian, Development, and Peace Nexus (HDPN) in Iraq, undated

Iraq: UNICEF, ‘Youth Engagement: EIIP and green works, ILO and UNICEF joint initiative supports young engineers to play a key role in promoting Green Works in Iraq’, press release, 25 November 2021

Iraq: ILO, ILO's afforestation project in Kurdistan/Iraq boosts sustainable development and decent work, video, undated

Iraq: ILO, ‘First-of-its-kind youth and women’s centre opens in Mosul, empowering communities and promoting inclusion’, ILO news release, 25 November 2024

 

ILO training materials & course

ILO, How to Choose My Future Profession? A Step-by-Step Guide for Jobseekers, 2021

ILO, How to Organize My Job Search? A Step-by-Step Guide for Jobseekers and Those who Support Them, 2021

ITCILO, Shaping and managing effective employment services

Global perspectives on the intervention

Skill profiling digital tools

Local perspectives on the intervention

Iraq: UN, 'United Nations Iraq, Discussion on the National Employment Policy- meeting of the High Committee for Workforce Planning and Employment', press release, 14 February 2025

Iraq: ILO, ‘ILO holds consultative and capacity building workshops to support employment services in Iraq’, new release, 27 January 2022

Kenya: ILO,  Assessment of Public employment services and Active Labour Market Policies in Kenya, 12 October 2021

Kenya: KLMIS, Labour Market Information System website

Jordan: ILO, ‘Shadia and Sahar’s journey on how decent work has changed their lives in Jordan’, article, 1 May 2023

Lebanon: ILO, ‘Strengthening Lebanon’s communities amid conflict: A holistic approach to education, training, and employment’, ILO photo essay 9 December 2024

Uganda: ILO, Comprehensive Rapid Assessment of Public Employment Services in Uganda, 2022

ILO training materials and courses

ILO, Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation, 2023 (No. 208), Guide for Policymakers, 2023 
ITCILO, Advocacy Toolkit for Quality Apprenticeships 
ILO, Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) training 
ILO, Promoting Social Cohesion and Peaceful Coexistence in Fragile Contexts through TVET, Facilitator Handbook to Accompany the Guide for TVET Practitioners, 2021  

Global perspectives on the intervention

ILO, Topic Portal: Apprenticeships 
ILO, ‘Strengthening Apprenticeships for Transitions to Formality’, policy brief, February 2024 
ILO, How to Strengthen Informal Apprenticeship Systems for a Better Future of Work? Lessons Learned from Comparative Analysis of Country Cases, ILO working paper, February 2022 

Local perspectives on the intervention

Ethiopia: ILO, ‘Vocational Skills Boost Economic Integration of Ethiopia's Refugee and Host Youth’, ILO news release, 4 November 2024 

ILO training materials & course

ILO, A Resource Guide on Sector Skills Bodies, April 2021 
ILO, How to Facilitate the Recognition of Skills of Migrant Workers, guide for employment services providers, 2020 
ILO’s website: Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) training 
ILO’s topic portal: Safety and health at work 
ILO, Promoting Social Cohesion and Peaceful Coexistence in Fragile Contexts through TVET, Facilitator handbook to Accompany the Guide for TVET Practitioners, 2021 

Local perspectives on the intervention

Kenya: Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) platform on the Kenya National Qualifications Authority (KNQA) website 
Kenya: ILO, Labour Markets and the Impact of Skills Recognition in Kenya, undated
Kenya: ILO, 'ILO and Partners bring Industry-Recognized Digital Skills Certifications for Kenya’s Xouth', ILO news release, 19 February 2025 
Jordan: ILO, 'ILO concludes Recognition of Prior Learning programme in collaboration with the Vocational Training Corporation in Jordan', ILO news release, 19 February 2025 
Jordan: ILO, ILO’s Recognition of Prior Learning programme in Jordan, ILO video series, 23 May 2024

ILO training materials and courses

ILO, Financial Education for Refugees, IDPs and Host Communities, trainee guide in Arabic

ITCILO, Making Finance Work for Refugees, Displaced and Host Communities, training course

ITCILO, Advancing Financial Inclusion, training course

ILO, Start and Improve your Business (SIYB) training

ILO, Digitalise Your Business (DYB), Digital Strategies for Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, 2024

ILO, Gender and Entrepreneurship Together (GET Ahead), 2014

ILO, List of ILO’s financial education training materials, 2025

Global perspectives on the intervention

ILO, global programme on financial education, website, 2024

ILO, global programme on financial inclusion, website, undated

ILO, global programme on financial inclusion for refugees, internally displaced people and host communities, website, 2025

ILO, topic portal on social finance, website, undated

GIZ, Roadmap to the Sustainable and Responsible Financial Inclusion of Forcibly Displaced Persons, 2019

ILO and UNHCR, Investing in Solutions: A Practical Guide for the Use of Microfinance in UNHCR Operations, 2011

Local perspectives on the intervention

Iraq: ILO, ILO's Financial Inclusion Strategy in Iraq. An Entry for Decent Jobs, undated

Iraq: ILO, Advancing Livelihoods through Financial Inclusion in Iraq, 2021

Ethiopia: UNHRC, Proclamation No. 1110/2019, Refugees Proclamation, Federal Negarit Gazette, No. 38, 27 February 2019

Ethiopia: website of the Association of Ethiopian Microfinance Institutions (AEMFI)

Ethiopia: ILO, ‘ILO empowers microfinance staff to promote financial literacy among hosts and refugees’, news release, 12 February 2024

Lebanon: ILO, ‘Microfinance initiative supports young people, farmers and workers in Lebanon’, photo essay, 31 March 2025

Sudan & Uganda: ILO, 'Making Finance Work for Refugees. RUFI's Journey in Serving Refugees and Host Communities in South Sudan and Uganda', Social Finance Brief, 12 May 2023

Uganda: ILO, 'Making Finance Work for Refugees. UGAFODE’s Journey in Serving Refugees and Host Communities in Uganda', Social Finance Brief, 14 January 2022

ILO training materials and courses

ILO, Handbook on Social Health Protection for Refugees, 2020

ILO, ILO Strategy on Extending Social Protection to Migrant Workers, Refugees and their Families, 2025

ILO, Guiding Principles on the Access of Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons to the Labour Market, 2016

ILO’s toolkit on Social Security Standards

ILO’s toolkit on Social Health Protection

ILO, Social Protection Policy Options tool (SPPOT)

Global perspectives on the intervention

ILO and UNHCR, Memorandum of Understanding, Geneva, 1 July 2016

ILO and UNHCR, ILO-UNHCR Joint Action Plan 2023–2025, June 2023

ILO Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962 (No. 118)

ILO Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102)

ILO, Intervention Model: for Extending Social Protection to Asylum Seekers and Refugees, ILO brief, November 2021

ILO’s social protection platform: migrants and refugees

Local perspectives on the intervention

Kenya: NSSF, Haba Haba savings scheme, website, accessed 2025

Kenya: Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, Strategy for Extension of Social Protection Coverage to Workers in the Informal and Rural Economy in Kenya, 2023

Kenya: ILO and NHIF, The Introduction of a Maternity Cash Benefit in Kenya, 2023

Kenya: ILO, Report on the Assessment of the National Social Security Fund Haba Haba Plan Design and Possibilities for Inclusion of Refugees and Migrant Informal Economy Workers in Kenya, 2024

Ethiopia: ILO, Social Protection in Action: Building Social Protection Floors for All, 2024

Ethiopia: ILO, Mapping of the National Social Protection System in Ethiopia, including Social Health Protection, 2021

Jordan: ILO, Estidama++ Fund – Extension of Coverage and Formalization in Jordan, website, accessed 2025

Jordan: ILO, 'Building a stable future – Eyad Al Merjawi’s journey to decent work and social protection in Jordan', ILO news release, 4 December 2024

Jordan: ILO, Opportunities for Extending Social Security Coverage in Jordan, 2021

Jordan: ILO, Legislative and Policy Coherence on the Extension of Social Security Coverage in Jordan, 2022

Jordan: ILO, A Market Systems Analysis on SMEs’ Business Incentives to Contribute to Social Insurance Schemes in Jordan, 2025

Egypt: ILO, Improving Social Health Protection for Refugees in Egypt Through their Inclusion in the Universal Health Insurance (UHI) Scheme, 2024

Sudan: ILO, Extension of Social Protection Coverage to Workers in the Informal Economy in Sudan, 2022

Lebanon: ILO, “The Ministry of Social Affairs introduces a social protection programme for people with disabilities in Lebanon”, ILO news release, 26 April 2023