Burao (Somaliland). ‘Milk and meat is the life of Somalis’, says Mohamoud Abdi Falay, the Deputy Mayor of Burao Town, located some 170 kilometres east of Hargeisa, Somaliland. He is gazing over the new shades built at the Burao livestock market, initiated by the community, implemented by the Burao district authority in cooperation with ILO through the UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery. Support to the livestock industry may seem like an unusual task for the International Labour Organisation (ILO); but maybe not when seen in the context of job creation and improvement of working conditions.‘The ILO in Somalia works by building on approaches improving livelihoods through employment generation, enterprise development and improvement of working conditions’ says Mr.George Okutho,ILO’s Country Office Director for Ethiopia and Somalia.
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