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Since the early 1950s, the ILO has been providing technical cooperation to countries on all continents and at all stages of economic development. In the last decade, an average of some US$130 million was spent annually on technical cooperation projects. The projects are implemented through close cooperation between recipient countries, donors, and the ILO, which maintains a network of area and regional offices worldwide.

The overall purpose of ILO technical cooperation is the implementation of the Decent Work agenda at a national level, assisting constituents to make this concept a reality for all men and women. An extensive network of offices throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East provides technical guidance on policy issues, and assistance in the design and implementation of development programmes.

Featured projects

  • Microinsurance Innovation Facility
    The Microinsurance Innovation Facility seeks to increase the availability of quality insurance for the developing world’s low-income families to help them guard against risk and overcome poverty. The Facility was launched in 2008 with the support of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
  • Better Work
    Better Work is developing global tools and is piloting three country projects, in Jordan, Lesotho and Viet Nam with the full cooperation of workers’ and employers’ organisations. The project combines enterprise assessments of compliance with labour standards at the factory level, with training and capacity building. The three pilot projects alone will directly benefit over 800,000 workers.
  • Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica
    The Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica is a technical cooperation programme of the ILO, under DFID funding. From its office in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), CoopAfrica covers 9 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. ...
  • International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour: IPEC
    The ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour is the world’s largest technical cooperation programme to end child labour. Since 1992 it has assisted over 90 countries to develop policies and direct action programmes that address the root causes of child labour and provide alternatives for children and their families.
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