All projects in country
Supporting migrant returnees and communities in vulnerable situations to uplift their livelihoods, enhance their skills and promote safe...
This project aims at contributing to the sustainable socioeconomic reintegration and uplifting of skills/livelihood of returnees, aspirant migrant workers and victims of human trafficking
Promoting Advancement of Vulnerable Persons and Enterprises (PAVE) Project
The PAVE project builds on the ILO’s project Local Empowerment through Economic Development (LEED+) Project, which was supported by the Government of Norway and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The LEED+ project successfully...
Development of social insurance-based unemployment insurance scheme in Sri Lanka
This project aims to providing assistance through effective and efficient unemployment protection mechanisms including unemployment insurance through effective tripartite social dialogue
Healthy socio-economic recovery of apparel sector Micro and Small Enterprises in severely COVID-19 impacted Gampaha District of Sri Lanka
This project aims at contributing towards the healthy socio-economic recovery of apparel sector Micro and Small Enterprises. It is implemented in Gampaha district that has been hardest hit by the pandemic both in terms of the health crisis and...
Informal sector
Healthy Socio-economic Recovery of Informal Sector Micro and Small Enterprises in Severely COVID-19 Impacted Districts of Sri Lanka
South Asia Leadership in Entrepreneurship (SALE – Sri Lanka)
This sub-regional project promotes entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka and Nepal as a desirable career option for youth, with the support of the US Department of State.
Supporting the Socio-economic Reintegration of Sri Lankan Migrant Workers Repatriated due to the COVID-19 Outbreak (IOM-ILO collaboration)
This project aims at contributing towards sustainable reintegration of Sri Lankan migrant workers. The project has been designed with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in alignment with the National COVID-19 Response Plan for...
Migrant workers
Promoting Decent Work through Good Governance, Protection and Empowerment of Migrant Workers
Supported by the Government of Switzerland, this programme aims at ensuring an effective implementation of the Sri Lanka National Labour Migration Policy- Phase IV while promoting decent work through good governance, protection and empowerment of...
Safety + Health for All Plantation Workers in South Asia: Sri Lanka Component
The ILO/Japan project on “Safety + Health for All Plantation Workers in South Asia” is being implemented in the framework of the ILO’s Flagship programme “Safety + Health for All”. The project will contribute towards improving the safety...
Safety + Health for All Workers in South Asia
Social protection
Improving Synergies between Social Protection and Public Finance Management
This project aims to support the Government of Sri Lanka in extending social protection coverage to workers, both men and women, in the tourism sector.
Skilling Sri Lankan Migrant Workers affected by COVID-19 for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
This project aims to increase capacity of the ILO constituents to identify current skills mismatches and anticipate future skills needs; to design and deliver innovative, flexible and inclusive learning options encompassing work-based learning and...
Building Sri Lanka’s national and enterprise-level dispute resolution system back better during COVID-19
This project aims to strengthening social dialogue and labour relations, laws, processes and institutions and to improve international standards
Labour migration
Governance of Labour Migration in South and South-East Asia (GOALS)
GOALS project is aimed at ensuring labour migration is safe, orderly and regular for all women and men from Colombo Process Member States through strengthened collaboration and effective migration governance.
Healthy Socio-Economic Recovery of the Micro and Small Enterprise Sector of Sri Lanka (COVID-19)
Support for Micro and Small enterprises for healthy socio-economic recovery when they start the business under the COVID 19 pandemic
Decent Work for Domestic Workers in Sri Lanka
Supported by the Government of Sweden, this programme aims to promote decent work for domestic workers through advocacy to bring domestic workers within the ambit of national labour laws, promote ratification of C189, and to strengthen organisation...
Working for Health in Sri Lanka Project: Phase II
Working for Health is a joint collaboration between the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO)
Measurement, Awareness Raising, and Policy Engagement (MAP16) Project
The project contributes to the promotion of decent work in Sri Lanka by supporting prevention measures and addressing child labour and its worst forms through new, fit for purpose, targeted approaches.
Informal economy
Towards Fair and Sustainable Global Supply Chains: Promoting Decent Work for Invisible Workers in South Asia – Sri Lanka
The ILO/Japan project “Towards fair and sustainable global supply chains: Promoting formalization and decent work for invisible workers in South Asia” (Sustainable Global Supply Chains in South Asia) aims to contribute to the development of...
Support to Resettlement and Reconciliation through the United Nations Joint Programme for Peace (SURAR)
This project aims to providing timely and strategically focused assistance towards two peacebuilding priorities that tackle core grievances of the minority Tamil community. The interventions contribute towards securing and sustaining the...