All publications: Sri Lanka
Fact sheet
Employment and environmental sustainability in Sri Lanka
The Employment and Environmental Sustainability Fact Sheets series provides key indicators of employment and environmental sustainability performance. They include: (i) employment in environmental sectors; (ii) skill levels; (iii) vulnerability of...
Measurement, awareness raising, and policy engagement project (MAP16) in Sri Lanka
Brief
Gendered impacts of COVID-19 on the garment sector
This brief, co-authored by the ILO and Better Work, aims to raise awareness of the gendered reality of COVID-19 and to outline some of the ways in which the pandemic impacts women and men workers in the garment sector in the short, medium and long...
Report
Towards resilient social dialogue in South Asia
The report is a collation of key social dialogue mechanisms in South Asia, their responses to the COVID-19 crisis and actions to build resilience compiled by ILO DWT/CO-New Delhi
What next for Asian garment production after COVID-19? The perspectives of industry stakeholders
This report summarizes findings from a qualitative study conducted with a group of industry experts to explore the implications of COVID-19 for production systems and practices in Asia. The results provide an early and tentative picture of industry...
Future of work
Platformization of the tourism sector in Sri Lanka: Impacts on labour market and decent work opportunities
This paper considers the impacts that digital platforms are likely to have on the tourism sector -- one of the 'bright spots' in Sri Lanka's future of work.
Green jobs
Green jobs in Sri Lanka: Linkages between environmental sustainability and decent work
'Greens Jobs' are a bright spot in Sri Lanka's Future of Work. This paper focuses on opportunities and sectoral challenges for Green Jobs in Sri Lanka, highlighting knowledge gaps, skills, environmental sustainability and decent work.
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...
Minor tank rehabilitation
Guidance note on employment intensive tank rehabilitation
This publication is an important result of the ILO's Climate Resilience project implemented in the Northern Province, with the view of building drought resilience of small holder agriculture communities. The guidance note explains the technical...
Fair recruitment
Improving recruitment agency business practices in Sri Lanka
This study aims to provide recommendations for improving business practices in recruitment for foreign employment with a view to reducing the costs borne by migrant workers.
Full report
The Enter-Growth Programme: A decade on
Brief
Can development results last a decade? A sustainability assessment of an ILO enterprise development project in Sri Lanka
Guidelines for the establishment of an enterprise-level COVID-19 Task Force
The Decent Work Team for South Asia, in consultation with the Bureaux for Employers and Workers’ Activities and INWORK, have developed guidelines to inform and encourage the formation of COVID-19 Task Forces at an enterprise-level.
Fair recruitment
Review of law, policy and practice of recruitment of migrant workers in Sri Lanka
This review provides an overview of legislative and policy frameworks concerning recruitment of migrant workers in Sri Lanka. The review identifies gaps in relation to the ILO General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment, and...
Fair recruitment country brief: Sri Lanka
This brief provides an overview of fair recruitment challenges and opportunities, and priorities for action for the REFRAME project in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka - Country baseline under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2017-2018)
Country leaflet
The ILO in Sri Lanka
This Country Leaflet gives an overview of ILO activities in Sri Lanka. It summarizes the ILO’s history in the country, and outlines the work undertaken by the ILO in cooperation with the government and social partners on a wide range of work and...
Assessment of the effects of annual drought and floods on child labour (hazardous and non-hazardous) and child welfare in Sri Lanka
The study focuses on issues relating to current natural disasters in the context of Sri Lanka, its impact on children and their families, specifically on children’s loss of welfare, schooling, their vulnerabilities to child labour and prevailing...
Labour migration
International labour migration statistics in South Asia: Establishing a subregional database and improving data collection for...
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of statistics related to labour migration from South Asia. It also includes conversations on developments and trends in labour migration, migrant worker attributes, and associated thematic areas in the...
Migrant workers
Labour migration, skills development and the future of work in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries
This paper maps in broad terms the present and future demand for migrant workers in the GCC countries, particularly those from Asian countries of origin, by highlighting key trends as well as the complex government challenges, constraints, and...