The International Labour Organization (ILO) is driving visible improvements in leather and marble clusters in Egypt, especially in Robbiki Leather City, Egypt. Enterprises are seeing better workflow, less waste and safer working conditions.
The ILO is running its Productivity Ecosystems for Decent Work project using the SCORE training method. The project supports enterprises in the leather and marble industry to grow productivity while improving working conditions.
In Robbiki Leather City, the renovated Leather Tanning Technological Centre is a major step. It offers accessible services and helps long term upgrades in the leather tanning sector. The ILO is working with the centre to make it a model tannery for the cluster.
Egypt’s Minister of Industry Eng. Khaled Hashem recently visited and stressed the need to strengthen industrial zones, boost manufacturing and improve skills through technological centres.
“Businesses join when it feels doable. If we make it easy to start, easy to get support, and easy to see results, more enterprises will take part.”
– Dragan Radić, Chief of the ILO Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises MSME Branch
The project also shared two sector studies on leather tanning and marble. These studies analyse market structure, working conditions and policy frameworks and identify root causes of productivity and decent work gaps.
Based on this, the focus is now on safety, skill development and formalisation.
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