Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department (EMP/ENTERPRISE)
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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
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Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department (EMP/ENTERPRISE)

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. Publication

    Unrecognized Waste Management Experts: Challenges and Opportunities for Small Business Development and Decent Job Creation in the Waste Sector in the Free State

    14 December 2012

    The report summarizes the findings of a study on the challenges and opportunities for small business development and decent job creation in the waste management sector. Based on research conducted in three municipalities of Free State, South Africa, the report highlights the vulnerable situation of waste pickers and makes recommendations for better waste management. The research was commissioned by the ILO Free State SME Development Initiative and conducted by the University of Western Cape and the University of Johannesburg.

  2. Publication

    A better future for young people: What cooperatives can offer

    11 December 2012

    Information brief on cooperatives

  3. Publication

    Guidelines for cooperative legislation, third revised edition

    11 December 2012

    Provides guidance on how to draft a cooperative law.

  4. Statement

    The ILO and Cooperatives: A global perspective towards the International Year of Cooperatives University of Kobe, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director for Employment, International Labour Organization

    28 November 2012

    Kobe, Japan, 28 November 2012

  5. Statement

    Inaugural Remarks by Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director, Employment Sector, ILO at the 10th International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) Asia-Pacific Regional Assembly

    28 November 2012

    Cooperative Forum on "Role of Co-operatives in times of natural disaster", Kobe International Convention Centre, 28 November 2012

  6. International Year of Cooperatives

    Healing pharmacies

    12 November 2012

    As the International Year of Cooperatives draws to an end, ILO News looks at how cooperatives in Turkey offer customers easier and safer access to medicines.

  7. Publication

    ILO and Cooperatives - ILO COOP NEWS No. 3, 2012

    09 November 2012

    This issue of the COOP News includes information on International Day of Cooperatives celebrations and the continuing participation of ILO in International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) observances particularly in the Caribbean, China, Indonesia and a global event in Ethiopia. ILO COOP partnerships are also featured. Artcles are included on joint activities held with the Japanese Consumer Cooperative Union, ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities(ACTRAV)as well the continuing roll-out of My.COOP, a partnership capacity building programme to strengthen agricultural cooperatives. ILO COOP reports on new publications prepared for IYC, and knowledge sharing events on cooperatives held within the ILO. Finally it includes information on the 2013 Social & Solidarity Economy Academy which will focus on youth.

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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