Employment Policy Department (EMP/POLICY)
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Employment Policy Department (EMP/POLICY)

The Employment Policy Department (EMP/POLICY) leads ILO’s work on Employment Policy and Programme development and their articulation with national development frameworks including National Development Plans and Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS). The main objective is to advocate for the inclusion of employment as a central goal of national and global economic and social policy agendas and to support the design and implementation of appropriate strategies to achieve this goal.

The Department also leads ILO’s work on Employment-Intensive Investment approaches and on the Informal Economy, the latter through a cross-sectoral perspective.

In delivering on these objectives, the Department’s main means of action are policy advice to Governments, employers and workers organizations and their capacity-building. Policy advice is supported through research, review and dissemination of good practices, technical cooperation programmes and partnerships at national, regional and global levels. More >

What's new

  1. Should Developing Countries Target Low, Single Digit Inflation to Promote Growth and Employment?

    Employment Working Paper No. 87

  2. Employment Diagnostic Analysis on Malawi

    Prepared for the Government of Malawi by Professor Dick Durevall and Dr. Richard Mussa, with assistance from the International Labour Organisation

  3. Mitigating a Jobs Crisis: Innovations in Public Employment Programmes (IPEP)

    Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 6

  4. Demographic ageing and employment in China

    Employment Working Paper No. 57

  5. Envejecimiento y empleo en América Latina y el Caribe

    Sector del Empleo – Documento de Trabajo Núm. 56

  6. Characterizing the school-to-work transitions of young men and women: Evidence from the ILO School-to-work transition surveys

    Employment Working Paper No. 51

  7. Demographic ageing and employment in India

    Joint publication with the ILO Regional Office for Asia andthe Pacific

  8. Employment and social protection in the new demographic context

    Employment Policy Department and Social Security Department

  9. Decent Work Issues in Poverty Reduction Strategies and National Development Frameworks Employment Sector

    Employment Report No. 5

  10. A rapid impact assessment of the global economic crisis on Liberia

    Prepared for the Republic of Liberia with technical assistance from Professor James Heintz and the International Labour Organization

  11. Energy, Jobs and Skills: A rapid assessment of potential in Mtwara, Tanzania

Key resources

  1. C122 Employment Policy Convention, 1964
    09 July 1964

    Convention concerning Employment Policy
    (Note: Date of coming into force: 07/15/1966.)

  2. R169 Employment Policy (Supplementary Provisions) Recommendation, 1984
    26 June 1984

    RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING EMPLOYMENT POLICY

  3. Guide to the new Millennium Development Goals Employment indicators : including the full decent work indicator set
    10 July 2009

Contact us

  1. Employment Policy Department (EMP/POLICY)
    Employment Sector
    International Labour Office 4, Route des Morillons
    Geneva 22
    CH-1211
    Switzerland
    Tel:+41.22.799.7861
    Fax:+41.22.799.7657
    Website:www.ilo.org/policy
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