Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade on Employment (ETE)

The project aims to support the analysis and formulation of effective and coherent trade and labour market policies that address the adjustment challenges that workers and employers face and expand opportunities for the creation of decent employment in developing countries. The first phase (2009-2013) has been completed and the second phase (ETE II) is currently underway.

The project aims to support the analysis and formulation of effective and coherent trade and labour market policies that address the adjustment challenges that workers and employers face and expand opportunities for the creation of decent employment in developing countries. Actions are taken at the global level and in four pilot countries, to strengthen the capacity of policy makers, researchers and the social partners to assess, address and monitor the effects of trade on employment. The project is implemented by the International Labour Organization and funded by the European Union. The first phase (2009-2013) has been completed and the second phase (ETE II) is currently underway.

Main objectives of the project

  • Develop global knowledge tools that can support the formulation of coherent trade and labour market policies at the national level, based on sound data and diagnosis, with the involvement of the social partners.
  • Enable the design of effective and coherent trade and labour market policies that maximize employment-related opportunities created by trade and minimize the adjustment costs of trade-induced economic restructuring.
Actions are taken at the global level and in four pilot countries, to strengthen the capacity of policy makers, researchers and the social partners to assess, address and monitor the effects of trade on employment. The project is implemented by the International Labour Organization and benefits from financial support from the European Union, EuropeAid. The project started in 2009 and runs until 2013. It is implemented by ILO’s Employment Sector in close collaboration with the ILO-ITC that develops and conducts training courses and the ILO country offices in the four pilot countries: Bangladesh, Benin (en français), Guatemala (en español), Indonesia.

Project Research

Trade and Employment: From Myths to Facts
Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade, and Employment

Trade and Employment in Regional Trade Agreements
Trade and Employment in Services
Trade and Informal Employment
ETE Country Reports

Project Events

Global
Indonesia
Bangladesh

Benin
  • June 2013 - National Seminar
  • April 2013 - 5th. Policy Working Group Meeting
  • December 2012 - 4th. Policy Working Group Meeting
  • November 2012 - 3rd. Policy Working Group Meeting
  • May 2012 - 2nd. Policy Working Group Meeting
  • March 2012 - 1st. Policy Working Group Meeting
  • June 2011 - Training for Specialists in Benin: Assessing the Effects of Trade on Employment
  • January 2011 - Official Project Launch and Tripartite Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade on Employment
  • April 2010 - Project Start in Benin

Guatemala
  • July 2013 - National Seminar
  • May 2013 - 5th. Policy Working Group Meeting
  • January 2013 - 4th. Policy Working Group Meeting
  • November 2012 - 3rd. Policy Working Group Meeting
  • September 2012 - 2nd. Policy Working Group Meeting
  • July 2012 - UNESCO-EU-ILO Meeting on Skills, Training and Youth Employment (Extraordinary Policy Working group Meeting)
  • May 2012 - 1st. Policy Working Group Meeting
  • November 2011 - Training for Trade Unions
  • August 2011 - Training for Specialists in Guatemala: Assessing the Effects of Trade on Employment
  • April 2011 - Official Project Launch and Tripartite Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade on Employment
  • November 2010 - Project Start in Guatemala