Instructional materials

2012

1. Managing your agricultural cooperative, My.COOP

   01 February 2012

   Training package and programme on the management of agricultural cooperatives

2011

1. “Social and Solidarity Economy: Our common road towards Decent Work” - Reader for the ILO Academy on Social And Solidarity Academy 2011

   24 October 2011

   Social and Solidarity Economy: Our common road towards Decent Work" - Reader in support of the Second Social and Solidarity Economy Academy, 24-28 October 2011, Montreal, Canada. The Reader brings together a series of articles to help build a common understanding of the concept of Social Solidarity Economy (SSE), with specific focus on issues regarding governance and organizational management, policy and networking in and for the organizations of the SEE. It also includes general information about the ILO and the social and solidarity economy initiative and articles on the relationship between SSE and the Informal Economy, Green Economy, Local Development and modalities of financing the SSE.

2. 

   Achieving Equal Employment Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities through Legislation (Online guide)

   01 September 2011

   This online education and training guide is intended to support improved capacity of governments in collaboration with social partners and civil society to design, implement and evaluate legislation that effectively supports equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities.

3. Promoting Co-operatives, A guide to ILO Recommendation 193

   27 July 2011

   The guide is designed to introduce the international policy guideline International Labour Organisation (ILO) Recommendation 193 which provides a framework for cooperatives in the 21st century. The guide helps understand how the 'Recommendation' provides a basis for law and policies on cooperatives as well as how and why there is a need to campaign for cooperatives. Designed to be used in all parts of the world, the publication is written in a simple format to enable ease in translation. It is the result of a collaborative effort of the Co-operative College of the United Kingdom, the International Labour Office (ILO) and the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA).

4. Handbook on Cooperatives for use by Workers' Organizations

   26 July 2011

   This handbook lists the essential things to know about cooperatives for all those who are interested as members, future members, politicians or staff of national or international institutions in charge of the promotion and development of cooperatives. In simple, understandable language, the handbook deals in turn with the characteristic features of cooperatives, cooperative enterprise as a whole, the promotion of cooperatives and the close ties that exist between the ILO and cooperatives.

5. 

   Project Design Manual, a step-by-step tool to Support the Development of Cooperatives and Other Forms of Self-Help Organizations

   18 July 2011

2010

1. Socio-Economic Reintegration of Ex-combatants

   12 August 2010

   Guidelines

2. 

   ILO's Role in Conflict and Disaster Settings

   12 August 2010

   Guide and Toolkit, 1st Edition

3. Local Economic Recovery in Post-Conflict

   12 August 2010

   Guidelines, 1st Edition

2009

1. 

   Guidelines on Gender in Employment Policies: Information Resource Book

   14 December 2009

   Provides guidelines on how to mainstream gender equality in specific employment policy areas.

2. SWTS: A methodological guide - Module 5: Disseminating survey results.

   01 December 2009

   Disseminating survey results

3. SWTS: A methodological guide - Module 4: Key indicators of youth labour markets: Concepts, definitions and tabulations.

   01 December 2009

   Key indicators of youth labour markets

4. SWTS: A methodological guide - Module 3: Sampling methodology.

   01 December 2009

   Sampling methodology

5. SWTS: A methodological guide - Module 2: SWTS questionnaires.

   01 December 2009

   SWTS questionnaires

6. SWTS: A methodological guide - Module 1: Basics concepts, roles and implementation process.

   01 December 2009

   Basic concepts, roles and implementation process

7. Value Chain Development for Decent Work : A guide for development practitioners, government and private sector initiatives

   16 October 2009

8. Country level rapid impact assessment of crisis on employment

   05 October 2009

9. 

   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.

2008

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.

2. International Instruments and Corporate Social Responsibility. A booklet to Accompany Training on the Labour Dimension of CSR: from Principles to Practice

   12 January 2008