All publications: Guyana
Informality and Economic Units in the Caribbean
This Study seeks to synthesize four national studies on Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Saint Lucia to determine the reasons for economic units to function informally and the frequency of informal economic units. It is intended to draw some general...
Child labour in Guyana: Key findings from the rapid assessment, 2016
This Rapid Assessment-Key Findings document is part of a South-South Cooperation initiative funded through the Brazil-ILO Cooperation Programme, within the context of the ILO’s Regional Initiative: Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child...
The enabling environment for sustainable enterprises in Guyana
This report analyses how Guyana performs with respect to each pillar, assessing strengths and weaknesses. A national perceptions survey focusing on 9 of the 17 pillars enriched the findings. The report hopes to stimulate debate and provide an...
Skills for Green Jobs Study – Guyana
Skills for green jobs in key sectors such as mining, forestry and agriculture have been prioritized due to environmental and climate change impacts they have. Moreover, Guyana is investing in skills for new green occupations, in priority areas...
Guyana on its way to high-value markets: finding export potential in the vegetable and fruit sector
What does it take to export to high-value markets? The Ministry of Business in Guyana identified that export diversification should be bolstered such that the economy is not so dependent on volatile commodity prices. This report fills a research...
Market system analysis - Guyana
Towards high-value markets: finding export potential in the vegetable and fruit sector
Analysing vegetables and fruits value chains to uncover paths to export diversification in Guyana
Guyana on its way to high-value markets: finding export potential in the vegetable and fruit sector - Market Analysis Report
This report adopts a market systems approach to analysis by focussing on bottlenecks and constraints in the supporting functions and rules to target high growth, high potential value chains. By addressing constraints in these supporting functions...
Sector selection - Guyana
Finding Export and Value Add Opportunities in Thin Markets
The weight of mango and hot pepper value chains to enhance productive employment in Guyana.
Rapid assessment of child labour in Guyana
This Rapid Assessment is part of a South-South Cooperation initiative funded through the Brazil-ILO Cooperation Programme, within the context of the ILO’s Regional Initiative: Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour (RI). The assessment...
Rural employment and rural development in the Caribbean
The primary objective of this Study is to describe the qualitative characterization of rural employment, provide an understanding of the quantitative phenomena of rural employment in the Caribbean where data exists describing trends in the 2005-2014...
Practical guidelines for developing and implementing workplace policies and programmes on HIV and AIDS
Based on ILO experiences in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean Countries
Strategic HIV/AIDS Response in Enterprises (SHARE): Public-Private Partnership
The ILO’s Strategic HIV/AIDS Response in Enterprises (SHARE) taps into the resources of the public and private sectors for the benefit of workers, their families, and enterprises – not to mention national economies. SHARE’s principal objectives are...
Climate Change, Trade Policy and Low Carbon Competitiveness in SIDS
by Dr. Keith Nurse and Ms. Ginelle Greene
The Public Sector: Central to the Delivery of Sustainable Development
Sandra Massiah, Sub-regional Secretary for the Caribbean, Public Services International
Key Issues for Caribbean Employers
by Wayne Chen, President, Caribbean Employers’ Confederation (CEC)
Tripartite meeting for consultations on Decent Work, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Promoting closer economic integration for full employment and decent work in the Caribbean
Summary of ILO side event
Caribbean voices
by Senator Dr. the Hon. Esther Byer Suckoo, Minister of Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development, Barbados
Strengthening the world of work response to HIV and AIDS: Public-Private Partnership
The ILO is the lead UN agency for HIV and AIDS policies and programmes in the world of work and private sector mobilization. The ILO programme on HIV and AIDS and the World of Work plays a key role in the global HIV responses through workplaces.
Draft outcome document of the third International Conference on Small Island Developing States