Areas of work
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Areas of work

  • Policy development and applied research
  • Financial governance services
  • Legal advice
  • Capacity building and knowledge dissemination in social security
  • Statistical knowledge base
  • Strategies and tools against social exclusion and poverty
  • Working time and work organization
  • Wages and income
  • Work and family and maternity protection
  • Domestic workers
  • Global monitoring and analysis of conditions of work and employment
  • Working conditions integrated strategies
  • Improving working conditions at the workplace
  • OSH management systems
  • Hazardous work
  • Chemical safety
  • Radiation protection
  • Occupational health
  • Workers’ health promotion
  • Labour inspection
  • Economic aspects of OSH
  • Environmental issues
  • Universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support
  • Legal and policy environment for HIV/AIDS responses
  • Mitigation of the social and economic impact of HIV
  • Stigma, discrimination and rights
  • Public private partnerships for HIV/TB services
  • Income generation and social protection to support livelihoods of people affected by HIV
  • HIV strategies and programmes for migrant workers and families
  • Support to national HIV/AIDS strategies
  • International labour standards on labour migration
  • Capacity building and technical assistance on labour migration
  • Formulation and implementation of labour migration policies
  • Enhancing social security for migrant workers
  • Improving knowledge base on labour migration and protection of migrant workers

Cross-cutting activities

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