All publications: Caribbean
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...
2017 Labour Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean- Executive Summary
The 2017 Labour Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean summarises economic trends in the countries of the region in 2017 and analyses the impact on labour markets observed this year, as well as expected results for 2018. This year’s Feature...
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...
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...
Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean
A new joint ECLAC-ILO Report which indicates that labour conditions deteriorated in a context of low regional economic growth, although some signs of recovery exist
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...
Rapid assessment of child labour in Saint Lucia
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...
Formalization of the informal economy - Garlands and Granville, St. James: A qualitative needs analysis
This Report is a qualitative needs analysis of the pilot communities and examines a lot of the social conditions which existed at the time of the ILO’s intervention. It was produced during phase 1 of the Project.
Video on the Formalization of the informal economy in Jamaica: Granville, Garlands/Horse Guard Project
Duration: 8.52 minutes
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...
IOA instrumenten voor de rechten van het kind | ILO instruments concerning the rights of the child
This Booklet contains a compilation of ILO instruments in both the Dutch and English languages, to be used by governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, civil society, and all those who wish to join the fight to end the exploitation of...
Formalization of the informal economy in Jamaica: Granville, Garlands/Horse Guard
A 40 page brochure highlighting the findings, activities and achievements, as well as the recommendations coming out of the ILO 1-year Programme
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
National child labour survey
Belize - National Child Activity Survey 2013
This survey is intended to provide updated information on working children, child labour, and hazardous work performed by children in Belize, as desired by the National Steering Committee on Child Labour set up by the Ministry of Labour, Government...
Belize - National Child Activity Survey 2013 - Key facts and figures
Promoting formal employment among youth: innovative experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Formalizing employment, particularly youth employment, continues to pose a challenge for the countries of the region. Currently, 13% of youth are unemployed and 55.7% are informally employed (ILO 2013 and ILO 2014). The challenge of enabling the...
Youth Informality: Formalizing the informal youth - Innovative experiences in Jamaica
The Jamaican economy is characterised by persistent stagnation with an annual growth rate of 0.53% over the period 1999-2014. The economic crisis of 2008 saw the collapse of the bauxite and alumina, declines in remittances and stagnation in the...
Decent Work Country Programme - Suriname 2014-2016
Suriname has signed the Decent Work Country Programme 2014-2016 with tripartite constituents and other stakeholders
The ILO mandate and programme of work related to Small Island Developing States