2016

1. 

   Education, training and skills: Women migrant workers in ASEAN

   28 March 2016

   This Policy Brief considers skills supply and demand in ASEAN in relation to women migrant workers, making recommendations to policy-makers, development partners, social partners and civil society that can improve access for women to skills development opportunities and better jobs. With ASEAN economic integration planning to introduce freer movement of skilled labour, there is a need to standardize and recognize qualifications and skills across the region to ensure efficient and mutually beneficial labour migration.

2. 

   Valuing the contributions of women migrant workers in ASEAN

   28 March 2016

   This Policy Brief takes a broader view of women’s labour migration in ASEAN and considers both the economic and non-economic contributions that they make. Recognising that women labour migrants face gender specic challenges and barriers, this Policy Brief provides recommendations to policy-makers on how to ensure the potential of women migrant workers is maximized to benefit the individual migrant, her family and her community while avoiding simplifying women migrant workers as tools of economic development.

3. 

   Guide on measuring migration policy impacts in ASEAN

   21 March 2016

   This Guide offers policy-makers and administrators a guide for evaluating how labour migration policies work in practice, based on documented experiences in ASEAN and other parts of the world. It starts with assessing the outcomes of labour market tests used to determine whether the migrant workers requested by employers are really needed.

4. 

   Illustrated guidelines for gender-responsive employment intensive investment programmes

   15 March 2016

   This guide is the outcome of a study carried out on gender and public works, and has been developed using evidence from 43 EIIPs implemented in 27 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America between 1995 and 2013.

5. Social protection for domestic workers: Key policy trends and statistics

   10 March 2016

   This policy paper: (i) provides an overview of the global situation of social security provisions for domestic workers in 163 countries; (ii) analyses trends, policies and gaps in terms of legal and effective social security coverage for domestic workers; (iii) describes and analyses the configuration of social security schemes for domestic workers, such as their institutional organization, financing and administration; (iv) informs on challenges to extending coverage; and (v) provides a compilation and description of international practices of social security schemes for the domestic work sector, including comparative information.

6. 

   SCORE Indonesia Case Study: SCORE Training supports growth of a female run business

   07 March 2016

   How SCORE helped Maria Satiautri, Founder & CEO of SPA Factory Bali, to enhance the effectiveness of her organisation and lay the ground stones for future success

7. 

   Guide for migrant workers: a pocket book (in Bahasa Indonesia)

   03 March 2016

   This book was created as a guide for migrant workers as well for field facilitators (organizer) of migrant workers. This book can be expected to provide information about safe migration mechanisms to avoid trade practices of people.

8. 

   Manual labour-based technology for rural road rehabilitation

   01 March 2016

   The purpose of this training manual is to provide technical management staff and contractors with appropriate guidelines for the effective management of rural road rehabilitation works using Labour-Based Technology.

9. 

   Trainer's guide labour-based technology for rural road rehabilitation

   01 March 2016

   The purpose of this training manual is to provide technical management staff and contractors with appropriate guidelines for the effective management of routine road maintenance works. These training guidelines for training of small scale contractors in Labour Based road construction have been developed to assist trainers in planning, organizing and implementing training program.

10. 

    Manual labour-based technology for rural road maintenance

    01 March 2016

    The purpose of this training manual is to provide technical management staff and contractors with appropriate guidelines for the effective management of routine road maintenance works.

11. 

    Trainer's guide labour-based technology for rural road maintenance

    01 March 2016

    These training guidelines for training of small scale contractors and Community Maintenance Groups in Labour-Based road maintenance have been developed to assist trainers in planning, organizing and implementing training programmes for road maintenance.

12. 

    Manual, tender & pricing labour-based technology for rural road works

    01 March 2016

    This manual is developed for training purpose for the ERA and MPW/R4D bid process. The manual consists of guidelines for preparation and submission of a bid document and for estimating cost for the labour based road works, accompanied by an example of how to calculate the contract cost and a sample of a filled bid document.

13. 

    Trainer's guide, tender & pricing, contracts & business management for rural road works

    01 March 2016

    These training guidelines for training of small scale contractors have been developed to assist trainers in planning, organizing and implementing training program.

14. 

    Manual business management labour-based technology for rural road works

    01 March 2016

    This manual has been developed to complement the training materials developed by IADE for the National Certificate "Managing Small Construction Bids and Contracts". It is intended for use by directors, engineers and administrative staff of companies involved in the rural road construction works.

15. 

    Manual pavement labour-based technology for rural road works

    01 March 2016

    This Manual comprises two parts; Part 1 one covers Rigid Pavements and Part 2 covers Flexible Bituminous pavements and has been prepared for the training and accreditation of small scale domestic contractors and their staff in the construction of specific types of rigid and flexible pavements suitable for rural road construction in Timor Leste through the use of Labour-Based Technology.

16. 

    Trainer's guide pavement labour-based technology for rural road works

    01 March 2016

    These training guidelines for training of small scale contractors in the construction of rigid and flexible pavements using a predominately Labour Based approach have been developed to assist trainers in planning, organizing and implementing the training program.

17. 

    Working within institutions in fragile settings: strengthening national leadership through the embedded approach in Timor-Leste

    22 February 2016

    This paper provides an overview of selected lessons learnt from the ILO’s involvement in fragile Timor-Leste. In particular it focuses on the embedded approach, also referred to as the working within approach, and its significance for the sustained engagement of the ILO in Timor-Leste.

18. 

    Social Dialogue in Asia-Pacific

    19 February 2016

    This research note provides a brief overview of the different social dialogue models in Asia-Pacific and analyses the economic and social trends in social dialogue in the region.

19. 

    Frequently asked questions about Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    16 February 2016

    Answers to the questions frequently asked about SDGs

20. 

    "No One Should Work This Way" Preventing the Abuse of Domestic Workers

    08 February 2016

    The brochure covers pictures and stories of women who have been abused while working as domestic workers in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines.