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Disability Inclusion

Forty persons with disabilities receive job offers at groundbreaking national job fair

The Bangladesh Business and Disability Network (BBDN) organized their largest post-COVID National Job Fair for Persons with Disabilities on 19 February resulting in 40 participants receiving jobs offers pending successful background checks.

Persons with disabilities in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions and the workplace: A situational analysis

Since 2021, the ILO and UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa has been implementing a joint project aimed at ‘reasonable accommodation' for persons with disabilities in TVET institutions and workplaces. Among several interventions, a situational analysis was conducted in Zimbabwe to assess the extent of marginalization and discrimination of persons with disabilities in these two spaces.

Joint commitment to inclusive employment for people with disabilities

The ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia and the Hangzhou Disabled Persons Federation (Hangzhou DPF) solidified their commitment to inclusive employment and decent work for people with disabilities, by signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on 16 January.

The ILO's global report with 30 good practices for the employment of people with disabilities includes three Spanish companies

On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December 2023, a new publication of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network has been launched, bringing together experiences and practical examples from 30 leading multinational companies and aiming to help companies achieve business success and tap into an underexploited talent pool by creating more disability-friendly conditions for people with disabilities.

Voices

Together we can make disability inclusion happen

Güler Koca is a Human Rights lawyer and a diversity and inclusion expert. She speaks five languages, runs marathons and has learnt to fly a plane. Gula also has a visual impairment. She shares the story of her path towards job success.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

A mission of a person with disability to create an inclusive working environment

Eko Ramaditya Adikara, also known as Rama, never ceases to create and promote a more inclusive working environment. As an ILO consultant, he encourages business associations to collaborate with the Indonesian Business and Disability Network (IBDN).

ILO InfoStory

Social protection for people with disabilities: Cash benefits are not enough

Social protection policies in many countries perpetuate the misconception that disability is associated with “incapacity to work”. Learn how people with disabilities could be effectively included in societies thanks to well-designed social protection systems.

Labour Market Data

Latest Bangladesh Labour Force Survey incorporates first-ever disability data

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has published the Labour Force Survey 2022, incorporating for the first time ever, indicators for measuring disability inclusivity, a major step towards ensuring no one is left behind.

Disability inclusion

New handbook published on getting people with disabilities into the workplace

Expertise and practical examples from 30 leading multinational companies have been included in a new ILO publication that aims to help enterprises achieve business success and tap into an under-utilized talent pool by creating more welcoming conditions for persons with disabilities.

Disability and work

ILO advocates for inclusive Green Transition for Persons with Disabilities

People with disabilities can seize job opportunities in the ecological transition if given the necessary support, says a new report by the ILO Global Business and Disability Network and Fundación ONCE.

Voices

Work gives me my independence

Rafael Martirosyan has Down syndrome. He says his volunteer work and job at his family’s bakery business in Armenia give his life meaning. Rafael’s dream is to open a café that welcomes people with disabilities.

Diversity and Inclusion

Employment of Persons with Disabilities: ILO discussed with multilateral parties inclusive policies and practices for decent work for all

ILO Türkiye Office continues to work to increase the employment of vulnerable groups. At the meetings held in Istanbul and Gaziantep, public, civil society, private sector representatives and working persons with disabilities convened and discussed policy and practical implications suggestions for sustainable employment of persons with disabilities.

The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights comes to ILO for technical exchanges on the business and human rights agenda

Jordan Launches Second Phase of 'WAEI' Campaign Promoting Labour Rights and Inclusivity in Jordan

The new phase emphasizes the labour rights of workers with disabilities, their employment conditions, child labour, and workers’ rights during probation periods.

Minister of Social Affairs, the European Union, UNICEF and ILO visited on of the Rights and Access Centres part of the National Disability Allowance programme

Employment-intensive Investment Project phase VI

Agreement paves way for Municipal Community Infrastructure projects in middle and northern Jordan

The ILO signs a new implementation agreement with Jordan’s Ministry of Local Administration to implement Municipal Community Infrastructure projects in 15 municipalities to create sustainable infrastructure and decent paid employment using employment intensive investment program approach in the sixth phase of the EIIP program Jordan funded by the German government (BMZ) through the German Development Bank (KfW).

Call issued for involving persons with disabilities in social protection policymaking in Lebanon

The call was made by Lebanese organizations for persons with disabilities in partnership with the ILO, at a joint event which presented a working model for disability inclusion in social protection policymaking and programming.

Inclusion of persons with disabilities in companies makes good business sense

Inclusion of persons with disabilities in private sector companies in the region is both the right thing to do and a smart business move, says ILO Regional Director for Arab States Ruba Jaradat.

Employment-intensive Investment Project phase VI

Signing of Implementation Agreement between the ILO-EIIP-KfW Project and the Ministry of Agriculture in Jordan

ILO in Jordan signs a new Implementation agreement with Ministry of Agriculture in Jordan for the afforestation of 1,750 dunums (175 Ha) in 4 Governorates namely Irbid, Jerash, Ajloun an Al Balqa.

Shipbuilding education and employment

Transforming vocational education and industry partnerships to support disability inclusion in the maritime sector

The ILO-UK Skills for Prosperity Programme in Indonesia has helped education institutes and the shipbuilding industry to promote participation of persons with disabilities.