GENEVA – (ILO News) The International Labour Organization (ILO) will assess the impact of the devastating earthquake in Haiti on key services, industries and other facilities and mobilize its resources to support job-creation and reconstruction efforts as they develop, working in close cooperation with United Nations and other partners.

“The earthquake disaster in Haiti has shocked ILO constituents all around the world,” ILO said in a statement. “As the international community strives to bring immediate relief to the suffering, the ILO will work with its partners to shape the employment and social protection reconstruction strategy the country will need in the future. The ILO's team in Haiti is assessing what it will take to restart the ILO programmes and begin the social and economic recovery that Haiti will so desperately need.”

The ILO expresses its solidarity with the people of Haiti and colleagues from the United Nations system in the country. The Organization has two programmes in the country, one to strengthen the garment export industry, another to build through labour intensive techniques erosion control works.