All publications: Benin
ILO WAEMU youth country briefs
GB.355/PFA/INF/3
Update on the premises for the ILO Regional Office for Africa and Country Office for Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and...
ILO Working Paper 152
Compliance with Labour Regulations in West African Countries : A Multi-Dimensional and Dynamic Analysis
This paper examines compliance with labour regulations across West Africa, revealing widespread and persistent gaps between legal protections and workers’ actual conditions. It highlights the need to strengthen enforcement and promote decent work to...
ILO Working Paper 151
Do productivity gains translate into adequate wages? Firm-level evidence from Ethiopia (LIMMS, 2018–2020)
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between firm productivity, wages, and employment dynamics in Ethiopia’s manufacturing sector between 2018 and 2020. Using firm-level data from the Large and Medium Manufacturing and...
GB.353/PFA/INF/4
Update on the premises for the ILO Regional Office for Africa and Country Office for Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and...
GB.352/PFA/4
Update on the premises for the ILO Regional Office for Africa and Country Office for Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and...
This document is also available in French and Spanish.
Health sector investment impacts on employment and economic growth: A panel ARDL analysis in the West African Economic and Monetary Union...
ILO Working paper 86
Negotiations by workers in the informal economy
This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations and collective bargaining by workers in the informal economy.
Case Study: Update on improving apprenticeship in the informal economy in Benin
In Benin, access to formal technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is conditional on finishing the second year of secondary school, equivalent to completing nine years of education. However, among 5- to 17-year-olds, the median years...
Work for Youth (W4Y) - (Final Evaluation Summary)
Project: GLO/11/01/MCF
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...
Irish Aid Phase II: Testing methodologies to support informal economy workers and small producers to combat hazardous child labour in their...
Project GLO/13/57/IRL - Evaluation consultant: João de Azevedo (team-leader); National Evaluators: Stella Dzator (Ghana); Affo Daoudou Hamissou (Benin)
Independent evaluation of the ILO's strategies on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Volume I Full Report - Rev. Ed. (2015)
Covering the period from 2008 to 2014, this evaluation reviews ILO’s strategy to advance Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW), namely: the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining is widely known and exercised (Outcome...
The twin challenges of child labour and educational marginalisation in the ECOWAS region - An overview
As part of the efforts to address the present urgent situation, Governments and regional institutions have developed the ECOWAS Child Policy and the accompanying Strategic Plan of Action for the ECOWAS Child Policy, as well as the West Africa...
Eliminating the W worst forms of child labour in West Africa and strengthening sub-regional cooperation through ECOWAS I and II – (Final...
Projects: RAF/09/51/USA, RAF/10/53/USA
Work4Youth Publications
Labour market transitions of young women and men in sub-Saharan Africa
This report presents the results of the School-to-work transition surveys (SWTS) implemented in eight sub-Saharan African countries – Benin, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zambia – in 2012 or 2013....
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...
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...
Chapter 8: Songaï, Benin
Songhaï is an NGO empowering rural African communities, particularly farmers, youth, and women, by building their capacities to become agricultural, agribusiness, and handicraft entrepreneurs.
Work for Youth (W4Y) (Midterm Evaluation Summary)
Project GLO/11/01/MCF Master Card Project