Instructional materials

2009

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

   16 October 2009

2. Country level rapid impact assessment of crisis on employment

   05 October 2009

3. 

   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

   A publication of the UN Global Compact Labour Working Group, this Guide aims to help companies better understand and apply the four labour principles into practice (UN Global Compact principles 3-6). In a question and answer format, this Guide provides a 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 can help companies put the labour principles in practice.

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

3. Youth employment : making it happen

   01 January 2008

   CD ROM - an electronic resource tool for employers

4. Guide for the preparation of national action plans on youth employment

   01 January 2008

2007

1. Sustainable enterprise promotion through good workplace practice and human resource management

   01 November 2007

2. Start Your Waste Recycling Business - Trainers Guide

   01 October 2007

   A technical step-by-step-guide of how to start a community-based waste recycling business

3. Start Your Waste Recycling Business - Business Plan

   01 October 2007

   A technical step-by-step-guide of how to start a community-based waste recycling business

4. Start Your Waste Recycling Business - Business Manual

   01 October 2007

   A technical step-by-step-guide of how to start a community-based waste recycling business

5. Start Your Waste Recycling Business - Technical Handouts

   01 October 2007

   A technical step-by-step-guide of how to start a community-based waste recycling business

6. An operational guide to Local Value Chain development

   01 February 2007

7. Access to SIYB training for people with disabilities. A Handbook for Organizers and Trainers in China

   12 January 2007

   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. Its major purpose is to enable users to make reasonable accommodation for the inclusion of persons with disabilities into standard SIYB training classes as they are administered in the People’s Republic of China.

8. Biz-up: Self-employment skills for young people - User's guide

   01 January 2007

9. Training for rural economic empowerment TREE - Philippines

   01 January 2007

10. Training for rural economic empowerment TREE - Pakistan

    01 January 2007

11. An introductory guide to national qualifications frameworks : conceptual and practical issues for policy makers

    01 January 2007

    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

1. Managing Small Business Associations, Trainer’s Manual

   01 March 2006

2. Biz-up: Self-employment skills for young people - Facilitator's guide and toolkit

   01 January 2006