Enterprises Department
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Calendar of events of the department

       

  1. ILO at Rio + 20
  2. View the list of the Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department events and meetings

Contact us

  1. Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department (EMP/ENTERPRISE)
    Employment Sector
    International Labour Office 4 Route des Morillons
    Geneva
    CH - 1211
    Switzerland
    Website:www.ilo.org/empent

Enterprises Department

All across the world people are in search of jobs. Jobs so they can raise their families and send their children to school. Jobs that provide access to social protection for them and their families. And, jobs in which they are respected, can organize and have a voice. What they want is decent work.

Enterprises play a key role in creating productive and decent work that helps meet the economic and social aspirations of people and their communities. Whether small, medium or large, enterprises – including cooperatives – they are a major source of growth and employment in all countries. Enterprises and the entrepreneurs who run them play a crucial role in creating jobs and reducing poverty.
 

No decent work strategy can be successful without encouraging entrepreneurship, innovation and productivity.”

Juan Somavia, Director-General
International Labour Organization

What's new

  1. Event

    Business and the Realization of Indigenous Peoples' Rights

    27 June 2013

    This one hour webinar will be conducted by ILO experts on indigenous peoples. It seeks to discuss contributions by government, enterprises, employers’ and workers’ organizations to the realisation of indigenous peoples’ rights, as enshrined in ILO Convention No. 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples.

  2. Watch - ILChat

    Sustainable development, decent work and green jobs

    18 June 2013

    Achieving environmental sustainability and creating decent jobs for all are both urgent challenges. Delegates at the 102nd International Labour Conference are looking at ways of tackling both issues, which are closely linked.

  3. Publication

    Are you in search of a Green Biz idea?

    17 June 2013

    This manual, elaborated jointly by YEF Africa and the Green Jobs Programme, aims to be a guide for entrepreneurs who are willing to start a green business idea.

  4. News item

    The Bonn Climate Change Conference addresses just transition, decent work and skills needs for low-carbon and climate resilient economies

    17 June 2013

  5. Publication

    The enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in Zambia

    07 June 2013

    Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 22

  6. News item

    Tunisia’s international seminar on green jobs concludes with a set of recommendations

    29 May 2013

  7. Green jobs in Indonesia

    Creating sustainable livelihoods while saving a precious eco-system

    29 May 2013

    The ILO is working with local communities on the Indonesian island of Borneo on a green jobs programme that is helping to rehabilitate a partly-destroyed peat swamp forest.

Key resources

  1. Value Chain Development for Decent Work : A guide for development practitioners, government and private sector initiatives
    16 October 2009

    1. Making the strongest links: A practical guide to mainstreaming gender analysis in value chain development
      31 July 2009

      A new publication from the ILO provides groundbreaking methods for incorporating gender concerns into the different stages of value chain analysis and strengthening the links essential for gender equality and promoting sustainable pro-poor growth and development strategies.

      1. ILO Helpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards
        01 May 2009

        The ILO Helpdesk is a free and confidential service that can help your company align its operations with international labour standards and the ILO approach to socially responsible labour practices.

        1. The labour Principles of the United Nations Global Compact – A Guide for Business
          16 December 2008

          As the first publication of the newly-established UN Global Compact Labour Working Group, this Guide aims at helping companies understand and apply the four labour principles into practice (UNGC principles 3-6). In a question and answer format, this Guide provides a brief description of each of the four Global Compact labour principles, and also provides practical guidance on what companies can do to respect, promote, and realise them. It also contains an inventory of key ILO resources that will help companies realise the labour principles.

          1. Tripartite declaration of principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy (MNE Declaration) - 4th Edition
            01 January 2006

            1. Leaflet: Tripartite Declaration on Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy - Translating labour principles into practice
            2. Follow-up surveys
            3. Short overview of the Principles of the MNE Declaration

          2. Labour and Labour-Related Laws in Micro and Small Enterprises: Innovative Regulatory Approaches
            01 December 2007

            SEED Working Paper No. 81

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