Publications

The ILO Country Office for the Philippines (CO-Manila) publishes a wide range of books, reports, working papers, training manuals, CD-ROMs, videos and flash movies. Some of these can be downloaded directly. Others can be requested or purchased in hard copy from the ILO Knowledge Centre in Manila or by email.

2010

  1. Local economic development and youth employment in the Philippines: The case of Cotabato City

    30 June 2010

    Cotabato City regards itself as the "heart of central Mindanao". The city has fostered local economic development through dialogue with local communities and with the business sector. This has enabled it to restructure the local bureaucracy towards development task and introduce new tax-raising measures that work for the betterment of the fast-growing populace.

  2. Local economic development and youth employment in the Philippines: The case of Concepcion

    30 June 2010

    The municipality of Concepcion in the Province of Iloilo is a rural community of around 40,000 people with livelihood activities anchored in agriculture and fisheries.

  3. Green jobs and green skills in a brown Philippine economy: Background country study

    30 June 2010

    The Philippines is facing two difficult and intertwined environmental tasks: minimizing the adverse impact of climate change through varied mitigation/adaptation measures and restoring its degraded environment.

  4. Local economic development and youth employment in the Philippines: The case of Angono

    30 June 2010

    This study is a response to assist policy makers, especially those operating within local government units who interact most often with young people needing work, in analyzing the real situation of the youth today in their locality: their needs, aspirations and constraints so that officials and social workers can target and prioritize particular youth groups in greatest need, better address the problems they face and craft value-for-money solutions, measures, and/or youth investment options.

  5. ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, May 2010

    31 May 2010

    CO-Manila's new library resource list.

  6. ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, April 2010

    23 April 2010

    CO-Manila's new library resource list.

  7. ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, March 2010

    31 March 2010

    CO-Manila's new library resource list.

  8. Nurturing peace, human security and decent work through local economic development: Project brief

    15 March 2010

    The Inter-agency Programme to Nurture Peace, Security and Decent Work through Local Development in Bondoc Peninsula is a joint undertaking between the ILO and Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in collaboration with the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), local government units and local non-government organizations, the project takes off the human security framework that puts a premium on human protection and empowerment.

  9. The Philippines in the global economic crisis: The social and local dimensions

    12 March 2010

    This paper highlights the major findings of the Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), which covered groups of women in rural communities, displaced women and men working in the export processing zones, returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), dependents or household members receiving remittances, informal sector workers and/or informal service providers and the unemployed youth.

  10. Crafting coherent policy responses to the crisis in the Philippines

    11 March 2010

    The paper assesses if and how results have been achieved, so far and whether these can provide lessons or models for other countries in providing a strategic and coherent response to the global crisis.

  11. Global transmission mechanisms and local policy responses Philippine cases

    01 March 2010

    The study documents and analyzes locally-initiated and locally-implemented policy responses to the crisis particularly in the following areas, among others: enhancing employment and skills; local resource based infrastructure; and social assistance and social protection. The study draws attention to the extent of the impact of the crisis in the locality, including the processes behind the conceptualization of the policy response and partnerships built between the national government and private sector.

  12. The Philippine labour market in the aftermath of another crisis

    01 March 2010

  13. ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, February 2010

    26 February 2010

    CO-Manila's new library resource list.

  14. Social protection in case of unemployment in the Philippines

    01 February 2010

    The report analyzes the current situation of unemployed workers in the Philippines and comes to the conclusion that there is a gap in social protection.

  15. ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, January 2010

    29 January 2010

    CO-Manila's new library resource list.

  16. CADT 092 (Cabadbaran, Santiago and Tubay) Agusan del Norte

    07 January 2010

    A big portion of the area of Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) 092 is in Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte with parts located in the municipalities of Santiago and Tubay. Within the CADT area live the 6,499 indigenous peoples.

  17. Library catalogue of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines

    01 January 2010

    This catalogue lists CO-Manila publications, working papers, tools, newsletters, videos and joint publications in the Philippines.

2009

  1. Youth employability surveys in the Philippines: An integrative report

    31 December 2009

    One of the most serious and longstanding problems of the Philippines is that of providing adequate employment opportunities for young people entering the workforce. As part of the two-year project (2005–2007) concerned with obtaining better recognition and understanding of the employment situation of young men and women, the ILO commissioned a survey of the youth situation among seven pilot areas of the country in order to provide a baseline of comprehensive and systematic gender disaggregated data as a basis for analysis and policy development.

  2. Promoting youth employment in the Philippines: Policy and action project. A final independent evaluation report

    31 December 2009

    This independent evaluation report examines the conduct of the Promoting Youth Employment in the Philippines (PYEP) project over its two year time frame based on a number of key focal points: the validity of the project assumptions, achievement of objectives, stakeholder buy-in and support, barriers encountered to project implementation, the gender dimension and the impact as well as benefits that had accrued to the target group.

  3. Towards a national policy and action agenda for decent and productive work for youth in the Philippines

    31 December 2009

    The authors of this study set out three main objectives for this paper: (i) to formulate a framework that will be an aid to assessing policies and programmes addressing the youth labour market especially in terms of the issues of unemployment and underemployment; (ii) to assess current programmes and policies; and (iii) to recommend key proposals for developing a multi-sector- supported national policy action agenda for the youth.