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Afghanistan
Afghanistan became a member of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on 27 September 1934. An ILO Office was formally established in Kabul in 2003. Since then, the ILO has worked through various crises with its constituents and partners in areas including employment policies and strategies, labour law reform, international labour standards, skills and vocational training, employment creation, labour migration, child labour and returnee livelihood issues.
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Labour statistics
National figures on labour market for the last available year from the ILOSTAT database
Development cooperation Dashboard
The Dashboard offers customizable views of ILO development cooperation projects funded by voluntary contributions around the world. It shows the budget and expenditure of voluntary contributions for the past 10 years.
Projects and programmes
Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) in Afghanistan
Promoting employment and decent work through the humanitarian-development-peace nexus (PEDW-HDPN)
ARC-AFG
Asia Regional Child Labour Programme - Afghanistan
Publications
Research Report
Innovative approaches to formalization in Asia and the Pacific: Background report to ILO Asia and the Pacific Tripartite Regional Knowledge...
Asia-Pacific Migration Report 2024: Assessing Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration