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The ILO has been active in Kosovo* since 1999 with a focus on developing vocational training, reforming the network of employment offices, promoting youth employment, combatting child labour, and enhancing social dialogue.

Currently, the ILO contributes to:

  • developing effective employment and social policies with a focus on youth employment through the reinforced Youth Guarantee,
  • strengthening labour inspection and occupational safety and health as well as social dialogue,
  • reducing informal employment and undeclared work, and 
  • eliminating child labour in all its forms, in particular the worst forms of child labour and forced labour.

The ILO is a member of the United Nations Kosovo Team (UNKT). It contributed to the drafting of the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2021-2025.


* All references to Kosovo should be understood in the context of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999).

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Projects and programmes

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Publications

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ILO activities in Kosovo are coordinated by the ILO office for Central and Eastern Europe, based in Budapest.

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