All publications: Health and social services

Small and medium enterprises’ response to HIV and AIDS

This brief is intended for SMEs and a wide range of stakeholders who work with SMEs with a view to strengthening their response to HIV and AIDS.

A one-stop shop for accessible, transparent and efficient public service delivery

The fact sheet introduces the Mongolian experience for delivering social protection and employment services through the one-stop-shop.

Presentation on “Workplace Stress: A collective challenge”

This presentation presents trends on work-related stress and its consequences. It aims at highlighting the key points of the 2016 World Day for Safety and Health at Work.

ILO Works in Indonesia: 2015 results

Presents the results of the ILO works/activities in Indonesia in 2015.

Educated Empowered Inspired - Transforming lives through the response to HIV and AIDS in East and Southern Africa

Poverty, gender inequality and social exclusion continue to pose major challenges to HIV prevention efforts. Between 2011 and 2016, the ILO, in partnership with Sida, implemented an innovative economic empowerment programme amongst hard-to -reach...

Providing Care through Cooperatives 1: Survey and Interview Findings

Cooperatives are emerging as an innovative type of care provider, particularly in the absence of viable public or other private options.This report lists challenges and opportunities that cooperatives face in the care sector, highlighting resources...

Working within institutions in fragile settings: strengthening national leadership through the embedded approach in Timor-Leste

This paper provides an overview of selected lessons learnt from the ILO’s involvement in fragile Timor-Leste. In particular it focuses on the embedded approach, also referred to as the working within approach, and its significance for the sustained...

Labour migration structures and financing in Asia

This report was prepared by the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, India, and researchers in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), and completed in 2015. The study benefited from...

Protect Rights, Prevent HIV!

Getting to Zero at Work: Inspirational voices from workers

ESS Paper Series (SECSOC) - ESS 53

The decade of adjustment. A review of austerity trends 2010-2020 in 187 countries

This paper: (i) examines the latest IMF government spending projections for 187 countries between 2005 and 2020; (ii) reviews 616 IMF country reports in 183 countries to identify the main adjustment measures considered by governments in both...

HIV and AIDS: Guidelines for the retail sector

The ILO has developed these guidelines to help stakeholders in the retail sector to strengthen their response to HIV and AIDS.

Breastfeeding in the workplace

Healthy beginnings for a better society breastfeeding in the workplace is possible: A toolkit

This toolkit is the first of its kind and was developed to communicate how breastfeeding benefits babies, mothers, families, workers, businesses and the society as a whole; and how they can work together to help mothers combine breastfeeding and...

Breastfeeding in the workplace

INTRODUCTION - Healthy beginnings for a better society breastfeeding in the workplace is possible: A toolkit

This toolkit is a collaboration among the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the European Union (EU). The introduction provides a brief description of the modules and includes messages from...

Breastfeeding in the workplace

MODULE 1 - Why do mothers need to breastfeed?

Module 1 of the Healthy beginnings for a better society breastfeeding in the workplace is possible toolkit, states facts on how breastfeeding benefits society, businesses, workers and families. It presents the workplace as an opportune venue to help...

Breastfeeding in the workplace

MODULE 2 - What every woman and family member should know?

Module 2 of the Healthy beginnings for a better society breastfeeding in the workplace is possible toolkit, gives practical information on how a working woman ( either pregnant or a new mother) can meet breastfeeding goals by having a good start,...

Breastfeeding in the workplace

MODULE 3 - What every health worker should know?

Module 3 of the Healthy beginnings for a better society breastfeeding in the workplace is possible toolkit, provides guidance at the time when working women would benefit the most. Target users are health workers, while doctors, nurses, midwives and...

Breastfeeding in the workplace

MODULE 4 - Creating a breastfeeding-friendly workplace

Module 4 of the Healthy beginnings for a better society breastfeeding in the workplace is possible toolkit, discusses workplace provisions of RA 10028 and provides guidance for the initiation of the Workplace Lactation Programme. This toolkit is a...

Breastfeeding in the workplace

MODULE 5 - Sustaining a breastfeeding-friendly workplace

Module 5 of the Healthy beginnings for a better society breastfeeding in the workplace is possible toolkit, provides guidance in establishing communities supportive of breastfeeding workplaces and discusses lessons from actual implementation. This...

Breastfeeding in the workplace

MODULE 6 - Making sense of the Philippine Milk Code

Module 6 of the Healthy beginnings for a better society breastfeeding in the workplace is possible toolkit, aims to raise awareness on why there is a need to regulate certain commercial entities, and how this protects the best interest of infants...

Breastfeeding in the workplace

MODULE 7 - Engaging advocacy champions for working mothers and babies

Module 7 of the Healthy beginnings for a better society breastfeeding in the workplace is possible toolkit, provides a clear basis for the breastfeeding in the workplace advocacy. It identifies legal frameworks and mandates for different government...