Publications
2014
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Responsible Workplace Practices
29 October 2014
The ILO approach to responsible workplace practices - Sustainable Enterprises
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SIYB Implementation Guide
21 October 2014
The SIYB Implementation Guide is intended as a practical tool to support the introduction and roll out of SIYB activities at country level. It provides step-by-step guidance for the successful implementation of SIYB in a given context, covering the following topics: assessing the market for SIYB; selecting partner organizations; developing Trainers and Master Trainers; accessing and adapting materials; entrepreneur-level training implementation; monitoring and evaluation; and planning for sustainability. It also serves as a refresher on the international standards applied to SIYB.
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Briefing Note #29: Making health microinsurance work
14 October 2014
Health microinsurance (HMI) can deliver value to clients and support efforts to achieve universal health coverage. Despite being the most demanded type of microinsurance across the world, its success remains limited and HMI providers face a myriad of challenges: how to provide affordable comprehensive benefits, prevent illness, reduce administrative costs, provide access to quality health care, limit fraud and moral hazard, and manage the cost of care?
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Promoting cooperatives: An information guide to ILO Recommendation No. 193
06 October 2014
The ILO’s Recommendation 193 on the Promotion of Cooperatives was adopted in 2002 and provides an internationally agreed template for national policy. This second edition has been updated and revised and will help cooperatives, governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations to help to make the cooperative model to become the option for achieving sustainable development.
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COOP NEWS UPDATE
06 October 2014
This issue of the COOP News includes articles on various events, projects, trainings and meetings related to the work of the ILO's COOP Unit between April and August, 2014.
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Briefing Note #30: Microreinsurance applications
06 October 2014
The potential size of the global microreinsurance market is estimated somewhere between US$6 billion and US$12 billion in ceded premium. An untapped market of this size warrants significant attention from the reinsurance community, given downward global trends in commercial reinsurance and other pressures on top-line growth.
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Briefing Note #28: Microinsurance distribution
06 October 2014
Delivering insurance to the poor is a formidable task. Insurers must reach people who do not come into contact with their usual sales channels, at low cost and in large numbers. To be successful, they must answer three critical questions: How can I make most of the distribution channel? What can I do for the distribution channel? Is the channel right for my target market?
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Briefing Note #27: Breaking the ICE
06 October 2014
In the last decade, some insurance associations (IAs) have expanded beyond their traditional core functions to develop insurance consumer education (ICE) programmes. IAs, as the representatives of the industry are well-positioned and ideally suited to invest in ICE. By investing in ICE they not only promote consumer protection but they also contribute in improving the reputation of the industry. Excerpted from Microinsurance Paper no. 31, this brief summarises steps that the IAs should take during the preparation of an ICE.
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Business as unusual: Making workplaces inclusive of people with disabilities
03 October 2014
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Briefing Note #29: Making health microinsurance work: ten recommendations for practitioners
01 October 2014
Health microinsurance (HMI) can deliver value to clients and support efforts to achieve universal health coverage. Despite being the most demanded type of microinsurance across the world, its success remains limited and HMI providers face a myriad of challenges: how to provide affordable comprehensive benefits, prevent illness, reduce administrative costs, provide access to quality health care, limit fraud and moral hazard, and manage the cost of care?
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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES ILO-OECD Roundtable on Responsible Supply Chains in the Textile and Garment Sector 29-30 September 2014, OECD Conference Certre, Paris
26 September 2014
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Sessions Summaries ILO-OECD Roundtable on Responsible Supply Chains in the Textile and Garment Sector 29-30 September 2014, OECD Conference Certre, Paris
26 September 2014
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Agenda ILO-OECD Roundtable on Responsible Supply Chains in the Textile and Garment Sector 29-30 September 2014, OECD Conference Certre, Paris
26 September 2014
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Cooperating out of isolation: Domestic workers’ cooperatives
15 September 2014
This note on ways cooperatives provide a way out of precarious and informal working arrangements for domestic workers, is the third in the series on Cooperatives and the World of Work.
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Leveraging the cooperative advantage for women’s empowerment and gender equality
15 September 2014
This note is a part of the ILO COOP Cooperatives and the World of Work Series.
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Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals: A contribution to the post-2015 development debate
10 September 2014
This paper highlights the contribution of cooperatives to sustainable development with a view to stimulating discussion on the role of cooperatives in the design and implementation of SDGs.
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Client value series #3: Creating an enabling environment to improve client value
01 September 2014
The last brief of client value series provides recommendations for policy-makers, regulators and funders on how to create an enabling environment that promotes client value. The insights are based on new impact evidence of microinsurance and the experience of countries where governments and donors are using insurance related interventions to achieve public policy objectives or develop the market. The brief presents ten blueprints to guide government and donor decisions and actions across the three main dimensions 1) insurance promotion through public-private partnerships (PPPs) and subsidies; 2) investment in infrastructure and client education; and 3) regulation and supervision.
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Indonesian Green Entrepreneurship Program (IGEP)
04 August 2014
This fact sheet presents the main activities and outcomes of the Indonesian Green Entrepreneurship Program.
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Impact Insurance Working Paper #36: Making health microinsurance work
04 August 2014
The high cost of health care can have devastating consequences for low-income households. Health insurance is one option that can mitigate these consequences by contributing to improving access to health services. This paper outlines key challenges and presents ten recommendations for practitioners, governments and other stakeholders to improve product design, streamline processes and foster necessary partnerships: in short, to make health microinsurance work.
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Green jobs and renewable energy in Namibia: low carbon, high employment
04 August 2014
This fact sheet analyses the renewable energy and jobs potential in Namibia.