All publications: Lao People's Democratic Republic

Factsheet: Supporting resilience of MSMEs in response to COVID-19

ILO/China Project on Strengthening Skills Development in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar through South-South and Triangular cooperation...

Employer skills needs survey (Amid COVID-19 responses)

Summary report: Assessment-based national dialogue on social protection in Lao People's Democratic Republic

Assessment-based national dialogue (ABND) is a methodology to assess existing social protection provisions and develop recommendations for the extension of a social protection floor (SPF). An SPF can provide basic income security to all people in...

Labour migration

Media-friendly glossary on migration: Women migrant workers and ending violence against women (EVAW) edition

This glossary serves as a guide for journalists, researchers, practitioners and others who conduct trainings or write about women’s labour migration and violence against women.

Women's groups

For women, by women: Guidance and activities for building women migrant workers’ networks

This guidance draws on lessons learned over years of supporting women’s groups. It outlines how migrant women’s groups can be catalysed; what expectations service providers, donors and the development community should have for network building; and...

Mobile women and mobile phones: Women migrant workers’ use of information and communication technologies in ASEAN

The joint ILO-UN Women Safe and Fair Programme: Realizing women migrant workers’ rights and opportunities in the ASEAN region (part of the multi-year EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls) undertook a qualitative...

Making women migrant workers count: Sex disaggregation of labour migration statistics in ASEAN (2019 data)

The International Labour Migration Statistics (ILMS) Database in ASEAN has been published annually since December 2014. In validating, annotating and gathering information from relevant surveys and administrative records produced in ASEAN, ILMS...

UNCT briefing note on social protection to respond to the COVID-19 crisis in Lao PDR

The briefing note recommends policy options to the Government of Lao PDR that will contribute to developing a comprehensive, shock-responsive, national social protection system. The options aim to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, support...

Improving occupational safety and health in the global value chain of coffee in Lao People's Democratic Republic: Drivers and constraints....

This study was conducted as part of the Vision Zero Fund project in Lao PDR. It provides an overview and analysis of the country's coffee supply chain, including drivers and constraints for OSH improvements across the different segments of the...

Labour migration

Recommendations of the Lao PDR National Tripartite Preparatory Workshop for the 13th AFML

These are the Lao PDR national recommendations for the 13th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour.

Factsheet: UN Joint Programme on social protection in Lao PDR (English)

Labour mobility between Asia and the Arab States: Sharing of experiences and progress under the Bali Declaration with specific focus on...

Background paper presented at the inter-regional meeting "Labour mobility between Asia and the Arab States: Sharing of experiences and progress under the Bali Declaration with specific focus on women migrant workers" held on 3-4 December 2019 in...

ILO/UN Women

COVID-19 and women migrant workers in ASEAN

This brief explores the multi-dimensional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women migrant workers in and from the ASEAN region. While women migrant workers in the ASEAN region strive to protect their livelihoods and their health, COVID-19 has...

Migration

Experiences of ASEAN migrant workers during COVID-19: Rights at work, migration and quarantine during the pandemic, and re-migration plans

The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting labour migration throughout the ASEAN region and globally. In 2019 there were an estimated 10 million international migrants in ASEAN, of whom nearly 50 per cent were women. The ILO undertook a rapid assessment...

The ILO Actuarial Services Facility in Bangkok: Providing actuarial support for countries and institutions in the Asia and Pacific region

This flyer summarises the ILO Actuarial Services Facility in Bangkok. It details the importance of actuarial work, the services provided by the facility and why the ILO's actuarial work is trusted in the region.

TRIANGLE in ASEAN

Recruitment fees and related costs: What migrant workers from Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar pay to work in...

This report presents the findings of a survey on recruitment fees and related costs paid by migrant workers from Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar to work in Thailand.

TRIANGLE in ASEAN Internal Forward Looking Evaluation summary

TRIANGLE in ASEAN

Effective return and reintegration of migrant workers with special focus on ASEAN Member States

This report was prepared as the background document for the ASEAN Workshop on Reintegration Programmes for Returning Migrant Workers (27–28 August 2019) in Yogyakarta, organized by the Ministry of Manpower, Government of Indonesia, and the ILO...

ESSA Project

Extension of social protection to workers in informal employment in the ASEAN region

The report outlines recent trends in informal employment, challenges and opportunities for extending social protection, by different categories of workers and countries. It also documents relevant country experiences and lessons, and proposes...