Instructional materials

2009 

• Value Chain Development for Decent Work : A guide for development practitioners, government and private sector initiatives - [pdf 44063 KB]
  This guide addresses the underlying causes of failures in the performance of market systems, rather than looking at symptoms in individual chains. ...
• Country level rapid impact assessment of crisis on employment - [pdf 589 KB]
• Making the strongest links: A practical guide to mainstreaming gender analysis in value chain development - [pdf 1876 KB]
  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.

2008 

• The labour Principles of the United Nations Global Compact – A Guide for Business – First Edition - [pdf 1623 KB]
  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). ...
• Training for success: A guide for peer trainers - [pdf 1052 KB]
• International Instruments and Corporate Social Responsibility. A booklet to Accompany Training on the Labour Dimension of CSR: from Principles to Practice - [pdf 358 KB]
• Guide for the preparation of national action plans on youth employment - [pdf 808 KB]
• Skills development through community based rehabilitation (CBR) : a good practice guide - [pdf 403 KB]
• Getting Hired: A Trainer’s Manual for Conducting a Workshop for Job-Seekers with Disabilities - [pdf 1726 KB]

2007 

• Sustainable enterprise promotion through good workplace practice and human resource management - [pdf 430 KB]
• Start Your Waste Recycling Business - Trainers Guide - [pdf 254 KB]
  A technical step-by-step-guide of how to start a community-based waste recycling business
• Start Your Waste Recycling Business - Business Plan - [pdf 103 KB]
  A technical step-by-step-guide of how to start a community-based waste recycling business
• Start Your Waste Recycling Business - Business Manual - [pdf 421 KB]
  A technical step-by-step-guide of how to start a community-based waste recycling business
• Start Your Waste Recycling Business - Technical Handouts - [pdf 2066 KB]
  A technical step-by-step-guide of how to start a community-based waste recycling business
• An operational guide to Local Value Chain development - [pdf 4401 KB]
• Access to SIYB training for people with disabilities. A Handbook for Organizers and Trainers in China - [pdf 332 KB]
  This manual for SIYB training organizations and trainers to implement SIYB training which is accessible to persons with disabilities, the first of its kind, is an attempt to respond to the requirements of the Convention. ...
• Training for rural economic empowerment TREE - Pakistan
• Training for rural economic empowerment TREE - Philippines
• An introductory guide to national qualifications frameworks : conceptual and practical issues for policy makers - [pdf 247 KB]
  Provides guidance on how to design and implement National Qualifications Frameworks, an instrument for the development, classification and recognition of skills, knowledge and competencies along a continuum of agreed levels.

2006 

• Managing Small Business Associations, Trainer’s Manual - [pdf 889 KB]