Official account of the ILO CO for the Horn of Africa 🇪🇹 🇩🇯 🇸🇩 🇸🇸 & 🇸🇴: Promoting social justice & decent work. Country Director @KhumbulaILO
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Jun 12
Today is #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour
As the world turns to football, we are showing the red card to child labour✋📷
Child labour is foul play. Every child deserves to learn, play and dream.
Join us. Hold up your red card. Tag 3 friends
#EndChildLabour @ilo @ILOAfrica
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Jun 10
She had the vision. What she lacked was the official registration needed to grow.
Today, her school serves around 300 students and has grown from 5 to 21 teachers.
Her story shows how formalization can unlock growth, create jobs and strengthen communities.
#Formalization #Entrepreneurship #InformalEconomy #ILO
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Jun 10
On the margins of #ILC2026, @ilo Director-General @GilbertFHoungbo held meetings with delegations from Sudan and South Sudan.
The discussions focused on advancing decent work, strengthening cooperation, and supporting resilience across the region.
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Jun 10
The @Prospects Programme & CHADET Ethiopia have launched a three-day in-company training in Addis Ababa for 43 trainers & workplace supervisors from 18 hotels.
The training strengthens capacity to deliver quality apprenticeships and improve skills development for young people.
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Nearly 138 million children are still in child labour worldwide.
In the Horn of Africa and beyond, every child deserves to learn, play and dream.
This June, show that child labour is foul play.
✋🟥 Hold a red card
📲 Post it
👥 Tag 3 friends
#EndChildLabour
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ILO Horn of Africa retweeted
The @IloProspects programme launched the Making Finance Work for Refugees & Host Communities training today in Adama, 🇪🇹.
The training supports Financial Service Providers to expand inclusive financial services for refugees, IDPs & host communities.
@NLinEthiopia I @AddisILO
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Ethiopia’s TVT needs strong technical insight, practical policy advice & coordinated action.
That is why the TVT Think Tank Group matters.
Supported by @ILO Global Skills Programme, members of the TVT Think Tank Group came together in Bishoftu to shape a 3-year strategic plan.
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The work will help drive:
🧭Clear implementation roadmap
🏛️Stronger governance
🎯Focused priorities
📊Better monitoring & learning
🤝Stronger partnerships
💡Sustainable resource mobilization
A key step toward more relevant, inclusive and labor-market-responsive TVT system for🇪🇹
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50 years of Convention No. 144.
Labour policies work better when governments, employers & workers, including from Somalia, @OmarFarukOsman, shape them together.
🤝Social dialogue is not box-ticking. It is about trust and influence.
🎧 Listen: voices.ilo.org/podcast/socia…
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On the sidelines of #ILC2026, @ILO Director-General @GilbertFHoungbo & Regional Director for @ILOAfrica @FRwanyindo held meetings with delegations from #Somalia & #Djibouti.
The discussions focused on advancing decent work & strengthening cooperation in the region.
#ILC2026
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ILO Horn of Africa retweeted
Happening this week in Bishoftu, 🇪🇹
The @IloProspects has launched a capacity-building workshop for 30 TVET trainers from the Amhara, Oromia & Somali regions.
▶️ The focus? Integrating essential core skills, into TVET curriculum development and course delivery.
@AddisILO
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ILO Horn of Africa retweeted
Through a Business Plan Competition by @ilo, Hussien accessed the finance & training needed to expand his poultry farm in Jigjiga, 🇪🇹.Today, his business:
👷♂️Employs 8 young people
⛓️Supplies local retailers &
💹Boosts family income tenfold
👉 Full story: bit.ly/4ukfn7J
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ILO Horn of Africa retweeted
The #JLMP Steering Committee Meeting was recently held at @_AfricanUnion! Key stakeholders focused on aligning priorities, the 2026 workplan & budget, and strengthening partnerships to enhance #labourmigration governance across Africa. Exciting steps for #JLMPPROPEL!
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May 28
The largest international conference on work is approaching!
From 1–12 June, Geneva will host the world’s largest international gathering dedicated to the world of work.
Follow #ILC2026 for live updates, key moments and voices from the Conference.
@ILO @ILOAfrica
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May 27
Eid al Adha Mubarak🌙
From all us at the @ILO Country Office Addis Ababa.
Warm wishes to all celebrating it !
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ILO Horn of Africa retweeted
Many rights and protections at work have been shaped by international labour standards adopted at the International Labour Conference.
This year, #ILC2026 will take place from 1–12 June in Geneva.
📅 Follow the agenda: ow.ly/EjNX50Z34h5
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May 25
On #AfricaDay, the @ILO celebrates Africa’s resilience, & immense potential. 🌍
Together with @_AfricanUnion , we remain committed to advancing Agenda 2063 through social justice & decent work:
🌱Youth employment
🛡️Social protection
🤝Economic formality
#4FortheAfricaWeWant✊🏾
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ILO Horn of Africa retweeted
May 22
🚀 Celebrating youth innovation in Sudan!
This week, the i-UPSHIFT Summit in Kassala honored 38 youth-led startups (160 young innovators, including 66 refugees) developing solutions to local community & economic challenges. 👇
👉 Read the full story: bit.ly/3PFlPYt
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May 22
🫖 In Somalia, Hawa Ali Mohamed turned a safer market space into a new start.
With ILO support, and funding from the @KfW_int Development Bank, she rebuilt her tea stall business and gained independence.
Read her story: ilo.org/about/newsroom/how-i…
ALT An ILO graphic showing Hawa Ali Mohamed, a female Somali tea stall owner, who smiles while preparing tea at her stall. The graphic includes her quote: “Now I have a proper space in the market and I am independent.”
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