All publications: Palestine (State of)
The twin challenges of child labour and youth employment in the Arab States
This Report examines the related issues of child labour and youth marginalisation in the Arab States. It focuses in particular in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. All are conflict or conflict-affected societies...
Know About Business in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt): Public-Private Partnership
The ILO adapted its Know About Business (KAB) programme, which is a set of training materials for entrepreneurship education, to bridge the pre-start gap that students in the oPt face before entry to the labour market with information to develop...
Workshop Report: Regional Training on Livelihoods and Child Labour
The ILO project “Combating child labour through skills and livelihoods training for older children” is implementing training workshops in each of the project countries through a number of activities which will develop capacity of local partners. To...
Taqeem Impact Brief Series, Issue 7
Taqeem - SPARK and Birzeit University, Occupied Palestinian Territory
This Taqeem Impact Brief documents how SPARK and Birzeit University in the Occupied Palestinian Territory measure outcomes of a youth entrepreneurship development programme, the tools that are applied and the findings and recommendations that emerge...
Strengthening workers' organizations in the Arab countries through social, economic and legal literacy (Final Evaluation Summary)
Project RAB/11/02/USA - Evaluation consultant: David Spooner
Labour Market Conditions in Gaza, 2013-2014: A Briefing Note
The report covers key labour market developments in the Gaza Strip in 2013 and 2014. It compares the basic aggregates using both standard and broad measures. It also provides absolute estimates of population, labour force, employment and...
The ‘Disemployment’ Impact of the 2014 Conflict in Gaza: An ILO Damage Assessment and Recovery Strategy
This report focuses on the employment situation before the Israeli bombardments and attempts to quantify the extent of labour displacement – referred to here as disemployment.
Work4Youth Publications
Labour market transitions of young women and men in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
This report presents the highlights of the 2013 School-to-work Transition Survey (SWTS) run together with the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) within the framework of the ILO Work4Youth Project.
The Taqeem Fund: Results-based monitoring and evaluation for youth employment in the MENA region: Public-Private Partnership
To support youth employment initiatives and improving the effectiveness of their programs, the ILO initiated work on results-based monitoring and evaluation. This new public-private partnership (PPP) supports a select group of small and medium-sized...
Policy brief
Findings of the Assessment of Agricultural Cooperatives in West Bank: Challenges and Opportunities
This policy brief presents concrete strategies to improve the challenging situation that workers face in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) by exploring the full potential of agricultural cooperative enterprises in the West Bank.
Policy brief
The work of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is a right and a common interest
The issue of Palestinians’ right to work in Lebanon is still controversial at the economic, political and social fronts.
Assessment of the impact of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and their employment profile
In order to assess the impact and identify the ramifications of an increasing number of Syrian refugees (many of whom will be seeking work) the ILO implemented an assessment of their impact and a survey of their employment status in four regions...
Ministry of Planning and Administrative Development General Framework of Preparation of the National Development Plan 2014-2016
As the end of the Palestinian National Development Plan 2011-2013 approaches, the Ministry of Planning and Administrative Development (MoPAD) starts to prepare a new National Development Plan (NDP) for 2014-2016. The preparation is based on the...
Palestinian National Plan (2011-2013)
This summary presents an overview of the Labour Sector Strategy, developed to enhance service delivery in the Palestinian labour sector. Services include those provided by the Ministry of Labour (MoL), by other ministries and government bodies, or...
Gender-Based Violence in the Workplace: An overview from the occupied Palestinian territory
In 2011, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics conducted a study in the occupied Palestinian territory on gender-based violence (GBV) in the workplace in partnership with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Institute of Women...
Policy Brief
Child Labour and Protection in the occupied Palestinian territory
The objective of this policy brief is to highlight the main findings of a desk review conducted by the International Labour Organization on child labour in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
Palestinian Employment in Lebanon - Facts and Challenges: Labour Force Survey among Palestinian Refugees living in camps and gatherings in...
The labour force survey sheds light on the characteristics and conditions of the Palestinian labour force from a developmental and rights-based perspective and equips policy-makers and national stakeholders with the information to engage in...
Palestinian Employment in Lebanon - Facts and Challenges: Labour Force Survey among Palestinian Refugees living in camps and gatherings in...
The labour force survey sheds light on the characteristics and conditions of the Palestinian labour force from a developmental and rights-based perspective and equips policy-makers and national stakeholders with the information to engage in...
Financial Assessment of the cost of providing health care coverage for Palestinain refugees in Lebanon
The preliminary financial assessment of the cost of providing health care coverage estimates – for the first time – the unutilized contributions of the Palestinians wage earners and their employers to the NSSF. It also projects the possible cost to...
Learning from Catalyst of Rural Transformation
This publication reviews 8 cases of "Catalyst" of rural transformation from different countries. It extracts lessons that remind us of the economic and development potential of rural areas, and most important, the central role of rural men and...