All projects in country
Towards more and better employment through enhanced support to private sectors in southern Iraq – with a focus on green business
This project seeks to enhance support to private sector development and decent work creation, with a focus on green jobs.
Increasing Access to Employment Opportunities for Vulnerable Urban Population in Basra City in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
The collaboration between UN-Habitat and the ILO aims to increase access to employment opportunities for young women and men living in underserviced settlements in Basra, with the support of the European Union.
Social Protection
Expanding Social insurance for agricultural workers in the Arab region
Creating space for dialogue between agencies and governments in the Middle East and North Africa is critical to identify options for the expansion of social protection for agricultural workers in the region.
Social Protection Programme for Iraq: Leveraging Effective Response and Accelerating Reform
The overall objective of the joint programme is to ensure that by 2024, the vulnerable and the poor, including children, youth, women, elderly, informal workers, persons with disabilities and Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq benefit from equitable access to an integrated social protection system.
Social Protection Programme for Iraq: Leveraging Effective Response and Accelerating Reform
The EU-supported Social Protection Programme seeks to build a strong, integrated social protection system in Iraq and ensure equitable access for all, especially the most vulnerable.
Improved Business Development Services targeting MSMEs in Iraq
By introducing and institutionalizing the ILO’s Start and Improve Your Business programme within the International Organization for Migration (IOM), potential as well as existing entrepreneurs will benefit from quality support services that allow them to start or enhance the performance of existing businesses, helping create employment opportunities for IDPs and host communities.
Creating decent job opportunities through applying Employment Intensive Approaches at Cultural Heritage Conservation activities
The project aims to safeguard and rehabilitate cultural heritage sites in northern Iraq, through applying Employment Intensive Approaches in construction activities, including clearance, maintenance, consolidation, site development and presentation. Jobs created through this project target both Iraqis and Syrian refugees.
Enhancing labour governance, inspection and working conditions in response to COVID-19
This project contributes to the socio-economic development of Iraq through enhancing the application of International Labour Standards and national labour legislation and promoting social dialogue, social justice, and decent work.
Tackling the worst forms of child labour amongst IDPs, refugees, and vulnerable host communities in Iraq
The project targets both children in or at risk of the worst forms of child labour and their families in efforts to increase protection and find sustainable solutions that address the root causes of child labour in the country.
Improved Business Development Support Services and Entrepreneurship Education targeting MSMEs and Youth for the creation of Decent Work Opportunities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
The project aims to promote decent work opportunities in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Partnership for improving Prospects for host communities and forcibly displaced persons
The Partnership has a four-year initial time horizon (2019-2023). Financially supported by the Netherlands, partners will join their efforts to develop a new paradigm in responding to forced displacement crises.
Employment Policies formulated in Iraq using strengthened LMI systems and LM statistics
The ILO is partnering with the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) and Kurdistan Statistical Organization (KRSO) in Iraq, to implement the first national Labour Force Survey (LFS) in a decade.
Promoting civic, social and economic participation of disadvantaged youth in Kurdistan
As part of the Kurdistan Vision 2020 development programme, the Kurdistan Regional Government or Iraq's Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has launched a project alongside the ILO and the United Nations Population Fund to empower some 750 disadvantaged young Iraqi women and men.
Support the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in Kurdistan to develop an action plan to implement an employment policy
The ILO and the Kurdistan Regional Government's Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in Iraq are working to create a policy framework and relevant mechanisms to implement a Kurdistan Employment Policy.
Expansion of the KAB programme in Kurdistan targeting students enrolled in vocational education institutes and unemployed youth graduates of Technical and Vocational Education and Training
The ILO and UNESCO are working in the Autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq to expand the ILO flagship enterprise development programme Know About Business, targeting youth throughout the region.
Promoting Civic Values and Life Skills for Adolescents through Education in Iraq
The ILO has partnered with the UNFPA, ESCWA and UNESCO to promote national identity among Iraqis between 12 and 19 years of age.
Private Sector Development Programme
The objective of this project is to create and enable an effective, coherent and comprehensive framework for private sector development in Iraq, at both national level and in target governorates.
Local Area Development Programme (LADP)
The objective of this project is to improve living conditions and contribute to sustainable poverty reduction in three selected areas in Iraq (Sulaymaniyah, Babyl and the southern Marshlands).
Sustainable and resilient enterprises (SURE) Project
The Sustainable and Resilient Enterprises (SURE) training programme has been developed for SMEs who seek to strengthen their resilience in the face of complex and compound natural, bio-environmental, techno-industrial and socio-political hazards. It combines elements of classical business continuity planning with business adaptation strategies.