All publications: Kuwait
Impact brief, Issue 13
Fostering employment through business support to young entrepreneurs in Lebanon
Berytech
Impact brief, Issue 9
Promoting women’s empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa: A rapid evidence assessment of labour market interventions
The Taqeem Impact Brief Series documents how organizations measure outcomes of their employment programmes, the tools that are applied and the findings and recommendations that emerge to assist them in improving impacts and programme design. This...
10 Things Governments Can Do to Ensure Fair Recruitment
Promoting the Effective Governance of Labour Migration from South Asia through Actions on Labour Market Information, Protection during...
Evaluation consultant: Ms. Katerina Stolyarenko
Ways forward in recruitment of low-skilled migrant workers in the Asia-Arab states corridor
This White Paper serves to further stimulate policy dialogue for fair migration in the countries of origin and destination in Asia the Arab States corridor
Brochure
Promoting Effective Governance of Labour Migration from South Asia - The ILO South Asia Labour Migration Governance Project 2013 - 2016: A...
The Promoting Effective Governance of Labour Migration from South Asia: The ILO South Asia Labour Migration Governance Project 2013–2016 booklet provides a brief overview of South Asia labour migration patterns and highlights key challenges for...
Labour Market Trends Analysis and Labour Migration from South Asia to Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, India and Malaysia
Travel Smart – Work Smart A guide for Nepali migrant workers in Kuwait
Travel smart - Work smart: A guide for Nepali migrant workers in Kuwait
The guide for Nepali migrant workers in Kuwait provides information to low- and semi skilled migrant workers helping them to feel more secure, work safely and profitably, and avoid exploitation and abuse when working in Kuwait.
Labour market trends analysis and labour migration from South Asia to Gulf Cooperation Council countries, India and Malaysia
This report examines key labour market trends in six major destination countries for low-skilled migrant workers from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
Taqeem Impact Brief Series, Issue 5
Taqeem - Lothan Youth Achievement Center, Kuwait
This Taqeem Impact Brief documents how the Lothan Youth Achievement Center in Kuwait measures outcomes of the Summer Programme, the tools that are applied and the findings and recommendations that emerge to assist them in improving impacts and...
Travel Smart - Work Smart: A guide for Indian migrant workers in Kuwait (in Malayalam)
The Travel Smart – Work Smart: A guide for Indian migrant workers in Kuwait provides information to low- and semi skilled migrant workers helping them to feel more secure, work safely and profitably, and avoid exploitation and abuse when working in...
Development of a tripartite framework for the support and protection of Ethiopian and Somali women domestic migrant workers to the GCC...
Project RAF/12/09/EEC - Consultant: Dr. Oladele Arowolo
Mid-Term Evaluation of Promoting the Effective Governance of Labour Migration from South Asia through Actions on Labour Market Information,...
The purpose of the mid-term evaluation is to draw lessons from the implementation of the project with a view to assessing whether the project goals and objectives are still relevant. Based on this, the evaluation will assess to what extent the...
Mid-Term Evaluation Summary of Promoting the Effective Governance of Labour Migration from South Asia through Actions on Labour Market...
The report presents the results of the independent mid-term evaluation of the Promoting the Effective Governance of Labour Migration from South Asia through Actions on Labour Market Information, Protection during Recruitment and Employment, Skills,...
Working Paper
Cooperating out of Isolation: The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait
While countries globally are moving towards recognizing domestic workers under their labour legislation, limited protection is provided to more than two million domestic workers working and living in the Middle East. The majority of these workers...
The ILO South Asia Labour Migration Governance Project 2013 - 2016: A status update (as of October 2014)
The booklet provides a brief overview of South Asia labour migration patterns and highlights key challenges for migration governance in the sub-region. It also provides an update on the status and key achievements of the ILO South Asia Labour...
Rethinking Informality in Light of the Arab Uprisings
This paper provides an overview of the ILO conceptual framework on informality and discusses its implications by focusing on its relevance to the Arab region in light of recent developments
Unfair recruitment
Unravelling the vicious cycle of recruitment: Labour Migration from Bangladesh to the Gulf States
This study in Bangladesh was commissioned against the backdrop of growing concern globally about the particular vulnerability of both regular and irregular migrant workers to exploitation, trafficking and forced labour. It was undertaken to inform...
Recent labour immigration policies in the oil-rich gulf: How effective are they likely to be?
This paper details the recent immigration policies in the six oil-rich countries comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council.