The Asian Development Bank (ADB) believes that decent working conditions help reduce poverty, raise living standards, and enhance the quality of economic growth by increasing productivity.

Since 1999, the ADB has worked with the ILO on a regional technical assistance project to promote and improve labor standards. The Core Labour Standards Handbook, launched on 13 December 2006 at the ADB headquarters is a result of a joint collaboration between the ADB and the ILO. The handbook aims to inform ADB staff on ILO’s core labor standards and their application to ADB country operations.

Follow up collaboration between ADB and ILO includes training and awareness raising on the handbook for ADB staff and the ILO constituents – governments, employers and workers.


INFORMATION LINKS

• Core Labor Standards Handbook
  Download PDF file 3.15 MB
• Core Labor Standards and the ILO: An Overview
  Linda Wirth, ILO Subregional Director for South-East Asia and the Pacific
• ADB Core Labor Standards Handbook
  Sonomi Tanaka, ADB Senior Social Development Specialist
• Response of the Philippine Government on the CLS Handbook
  Ma. Brenda Villafuerte, Director BWC Department of Labor and Employment
• World Bank takes major step on labour standards