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2009
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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.
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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.
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Enhancing youth employability is a business mission
31 December 2009
While according to the Constitution of the Philippines, education is to accorded the “highest priority” the reality is that in recent years, the quality of education, particularly through the public school system has been in a state of neglect.
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Operations guide: managing an ILO-CIDA youth employment country project: Philippines
31 December 2009
This companion study provides a guide to the actual manner in which the project was undertaken. Principles of project planning are discussed in some detail along with the application of result-based management (RBM) and logical frame (logframe) analysis, used to identify and organize the results.
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Briefing guide: meeting youth employment policy and action challenges
31 December 2009
This briefing guide is a consolidation of earlier material prepared in 2005 for stakeholders in the Promoting Youth Employment in the Philippines (PYEP) project. It explains the terms used in defining (and working in the area of) youth unemployment and underemployment and outlines the specific needs of youth which are separable from the more general problems surrounding unemployment as a whole.
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Choosing and assessing local youth unemployment interventions
31 December 2009
In this working paper, the author looks at the cost-effectiveness of various programmes that address youth unemployment. The author disaggregates the youth segment from total unemployment and examines the two classes of unemployment – voluntary and involuntary – and their causes.
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Youth employment in the Philippines
31 December 2009
This study, the first in a series assessing the youth employment situation in the Philippines prepared as part of the two-year ILO-CIDA Project on Promoting Youth Employment in the Philippines (PYEP), examines labour market trends over the past 20-year period looking at labour force participation and the distinctive aspects of youth employment and unemployment that are separable from the labour force as a whole.
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New titles for November 2009
30 November 2009
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The Philippines in the global economic crisis: the social and local dimensions
01 November 2009
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. It also provides an analysis on the behaviour and coping patterns of specific sectors of the population and households and how these relate to the overall economic situation of the Philippines.
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Going back, moving on, a synthesis report of the trends and experiences of returned trafficking victims in Thailand and the Philippines
30 September 2009
The report explores some of the issues, obstacles and opportunities related to the return and integration of women migrants who have experienced exploitative situation abroad, including forced labour and human trafficking. It is based on a series of interviews with returned victims of trafficking in Thailand and the Philippines.
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Decent work for all newsletter: Exploring new platforms of social dialogue for domestic workers
01 September 2009
The Philippines has embarked on a Decent Work for Domestic Workers campaign to craft a unified position to the International Labour Conference in 2010 and to lobby for the passage of a domestic workers national law.
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Decent work for all newsletter: decent work and social justice in times of crisis
01 June 2009
The global economic crisis threatens advances made under United Nations-led Millennium Development Goals; it threatens to undermine progress towards reducing poverty. The core message of social justice and decent work is more significant than ever as we trace the history of the ILO 90 years ago.