Publications

2008 

• Issue Brief 2 - Social Care Needs and Service Provisions in Arab States: Bringing Care Work into Focus in Lebanon - [pdf 73 KB]
  This Issue Brief is part of a series that examines women's labour force participation in Arab States using a gender equality and workers' rights perspective. It looks at growing unmet social care needs in Arab States in relation to their impact on women's labour force participation in the region.
• Issue Brief 1 - Promoting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers in Arab States: The Case of Lebanon - [pdf 82 KB]
  This Issue Brief is part of a series that examines women's labour force participation in Arab States using a gender equality and workers' rights perspective. It looks at the increasing employment of women migrant domestic workers to fill the unmet needs in provision of social care services.
• Policy Brief 1 - Social Care Needs and Service Provisions in Arab States: Bringing Care Work into Focus in Lebanon - [pdf 844 KB]
  
• Brochure - Formula for Progress: Educate both girls and boys! - Gender equality at the heart of decent work, Campaign 2008-2009 - [pdf 530 KB]
  
• Campaign leaflet Gender equality at the heart of decent work, 2008-2009 - [pdf 195 KB]
  
• ILO Gender Equality Action Plan 2008-09/ Plan d’action du BIT pour l’égalité entre hommes et femmes 2008-09/Plan de acción de la OIT sobre igualdad de género 2008-2009 خطة عمل منظمة العمل الدولية بشأن المساواة بين الجنسين - [pdf 526 KB]
  At the November 2007 session in Geneva of the ILO Governing Body, a revised Gender Action Plan 2008-09 was presented and overwhelmingly received.
• Women, Gender and the Informal Economy: An Assessment of ILO Research and Suggested Ways Forward/Femmes, égalité entre les sexes et économie informelle: évaluation des recherches menées par l'OIT et propositions concernant la marche à suivre/Las mujeres, el género y la economía informal: evaluación de los estudios de la OIT y orientaciones sobre el trabajo futuro - [pdf 422 KB]
  
• Small Change, Big Changes: Women and Microfinance - [pdf 375 KB]
  
• Factsheet on Investing in Decent Work for Women - [pdf 233 KB]
  

2007 

• ILO Gender News: No. 14 November 2007 - [pdf 801 KB]
  
• ABC of Women Worker’s Rights and Gender Equality/ABC de los Derechos de las Trabajadoras y la Igualdad de Género - [pdf 521 KB] - Buy now
  Second edition/Segunda edición
• Evaluation Guidance: Considering Gender in Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects - [pdf 285 KB]
  This guide explains why it is important to systematically consider gender equality in monitoring and evaluation processes. It briefly explains key concepts related to gender and describes ILO's mandate and policy on gender equality. This guide provides concrete guidance on how to incorporate gender in the project monitoring system and in project evaluations.
• Girls in Mining: Research Findings from Ghana, Niger, Peru and United Republic of Tanzania - [pdf 629 KB]
  
• Good Practices in Promoting Gender Equality in ILO Technical Cooperation Projects - [pdf 228 KB]
  
• ILO Gender News: International Women's Day, 8 March 2007 – Special Issue on Women and Migration - [pdf 781 KB]
  
• Gender Equality Around the World - Buy now
  Articles from World of Work magazine 1999-2006
• A Manual for Gender Audit Facilitators - [pdf 1843 KB] - Buy now
  The ILO Participatory Gender Audit Methodology.
• L'égalité entre hommes et femmes à travers le monde - Buy now
  Choix d'articles parus dans le magazine Travail 1999-2006

2006 

• ILO Gender News: No. 12 September 2006 - [pdf 361 KB]
  
• ILO Gender Network Handbook
  This handbook was designed for ILO Gender Network members as well as all ILO staff and representatives of constituents - governments, and employers' and workers' organizations - as a support to effectively mainstream gender in all their work.