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.
2014
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Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda): Integrated livelihood recovery for super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) affected communities (Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs') support to the Philippines' recovery: Final project fact sheet
31 October 2014
Through the contribution of the Government of Japan, the International Labour Organization (ILO) immediately worked with the Philippine government and humanitarian partners in providing emergency employment in typhoon affected workers.
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Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda): Emergency employment and sustainable livelihoods (Norwegian support to Philippine recover from super typhoon): Final project fact sheet
31 October 2014
The contribution of Norway was being used to establish and strengthen the overall ILO response framework and technical response programmes, supporting government and partners to coordinate, design and implement their emergency response and livelihood programmes.
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ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, October 2014
30 October 2014
CO-Manila's new library resource list.
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Policy brief 10. Return and retention of health professionals: Lessons from India's experiences
17 October 2014
The study documented and analyzed the employers' approach to circular migration of Indian doctors, between India and selected destination countries. It focuses on the strategies in workplaces, in the private and public sector hospitals; state level policies and programmes and bilateral and multilateral agreements in the field of health professional migrations.
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Policy brief 9. Unveiling promising practices among private recruitment agencies: Looking for the business case for ethical recruitment
17 October 2014
This policy brief presents promising good practices stemming from case studies of recruitment agencies recruiting Filipino and Indian health professionals for foreign employment. Raising awareness of promising practices in various aspects of the international recruitment process are ways to curb illegal recruitment, excessive fee charging, unsafe deployment, and other harmful situations affecting migrant workers, including skilled health professionals.
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Policy brief 8. Workforce projections: Participatory update of the Philippine human resources for health master plan
17 October 2014
This policy brief presents the results of a project which involved a data mapping exercise to identify human resources for health indicators, exploration of alternative workforce projection models, development and testing of the model. Sustained efforts are advocated to expand the workforce projections to other health workers and secure the strategic and continuous participation of the HRH Network.
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Policy brief 7. Toward transformative education: Inclusion of migration and decent work in he nursing curriculum
17 October 2014
This policy brief highlights the proposed inclusion of an elective course on migration and decent work in the Philippines nursing curriculum.
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Policy brief 6. Regulating the recruitment industry through incentives: POEA awards for recruitment agencies
17 October 2014
This policy brief calls on the ways to improve the POEA awards based on the assessment results. While stakeholders up hold the principles underlying the awards, they pointed out the limitations and suggested improvements to enhance the awards' relevance to current directions in ethical recruitment and migration governance.
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Policy brief 5. Monitoring the ethical recruitment of Filipino health professionals: A multi-stakeholder approach
17 October 2014
This policy brief presents the Philippine experience in monitoring, the implementation of the 201.0 WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Professionals.
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Policy brief 4. Investigating the working conditions of Filipino and Indian-born nurses in the UK: Policy implications
17 October 2014
The policy brief calls attention to the working conditions and social security entitlements of migrant health personnel, particularly Filipino and Indian migrant nurses recruited into the UK's health system.
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Policy brief 3. Forging Philippine bilateral arrangements and agreements: Experiences and lessons
17 October 2014
Bilateral arrangements and agreements (BLAs) are important policy instruments to facilitate ethical recruitment and circular migration of health professionals. While bilateral arrangements are nori-legally binding and flexible, bilateral agreements formalize specific terms for the commitment of concerned parties.
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Policy brief 2. Migration preparedness of health professionals: Pre-employment, pre-departure, post-arrival and return-reintegration orientation seminars
17 October 2014
Access to quality information is vital to preparing prospective and actual migrant workers for safe and productive migration. Current migrant orientation materials and services have been useful but insufficient for migrant health professionals.
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Policy brief 1. Improving migrant services for health professionals
17 October 2014
In managing Filipino worker migration, the Philippine government enacted laws and policies to promote and protect migrant workers' rights and welfare and ensure legal and ethical recruitment.
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A practical guide for post-calamity response: The Philippine experience
17 October 2014
In a country frequently ravaged by typhoons and other natural calamities, vulnerable communities are often left crippled after the destruction, with only an ounce of hope to get through another day. More often, it is a struggle to help people get back on their feet.
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GATS mode 4: Movement of natural persons and protection of migrant workers’ rights
08 October 2014
The paper indicates that while labour standards might affect the international trade in goods, there is no indication that they actually slow down international migration. Rather, in the changed global scenario since the Uruguay Round, escalating demands for temporary overseas workers necessitates the incorporation of migrant worker protection clauses into any multilateral framework that deals with temporary migration.
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National nursing core competency standards - Training modules for the Philippines
30 September 2014
The training module overall objective was to improve nursing education and practice through the enhancement of the core competencies of nursing practitioners and students.
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ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, September 2014
29 September 2014
CO-Manila's new library resource list.
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Typhoon Bopha: Local resource-based employment generation, climate change impact mitigation and livelihood recovery interventions in Davao Oriental, Philippines
26 September 2014
Responding to natural or man-made disasters is a central part of livelihood development in many parts of the world. Effective crisis response is dependent on a number of resource and capacity related issues – essentially related to the ability of local communities to deal with the detrimental effects resulting from a crisis situation and recover from loss livelihoods.
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Increasing awareness on gender sensitivity, women rights and human trafficking in the Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) affected communities in Davao Oriental
15 September 2014
The abovementioned subproject was implemented with the purpose to prevent accidents of gender-based violence and trafficking in persons in the typhoon affected communities in upland and coastal barangays of the municipalities of Boston and Cateel.
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ILO Country Office for the Philippines publications catalogue, August 2014
29 August 2014
CO-Manila's new library resource list.