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Cabo Verde

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Cape Verde has been a member of the ILO since 1979. Today, the country recieves technical and support from the ILO through a Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) focused on two main priorities: employment creation and social protection. Other initiatives facilitated by the ILO include support for SME development, promoting youth employment, enhancing vocational training, combatting child labour, and the creation of a national registry for social protection programs to aid cash transfer implementation.

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ILO and UNDP build capacity for trade unions on Gender Equality and Poverty Reduction
Members of trade unions in the training on gender and reduction of poverty

ILO and UNDP build capacity for trade unions on Gender Equality and Poverty Reduction

ILO opens new Country Office in Angola
Minister of Public Administration, Labour and Social Security of Angola, Teresa Dias Rodrigues, with ILO Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo, shake hands after signing of country office agreement in Luanda

ILO opens new Country Office in Angola

Projects and programmes

Trade for Decent Work

Labour relations and working conditions

Trade for Decent Work

Combating the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Lusophone Countries in Africa (PALOP) Project

Child labour: PALOP Project

Combating the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Lusophone Countries in Africa (PALOP) Project

Events

High level panel on Migrant workers' contribution to the development of the African continent

ILO- ITUC Africa

High level panel on Migrant workers' contribution to the development of the African continent

Publications

Revista de passatempos Coquetel com o tema “Segurança e saúde em dia nas escolas".

Revista de passatempos Coquetel com o tema “Segurança e saúde em dia nas escolas".

CPLP-ILO Cooperation

South-South and Triangular Cooperation

CPLP-ILO Cooperation

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ILO Decent Work Team for West Africa and ILO Country Office for Senegal, Cabo Verde, the Gambia, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau.

  • Email : dakar@ilo.org
  • Phone : +221-33 869 92 00 

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Km 6, avenue Cheikh Anta Diop – stèle Mermoz
BP. 414 – CP. 18524 – Dakar
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