All publications: Forestry, wood, pulp and paper

Financial Education Training Materials

A series of training materials designed to teach vulnerable groups (including women and men in poverty, families with working children, youth and migrant workers) financial knowledge and management skills.

Business Group Formation: Empowering Women and Men in Developing Communities

A trainer’s manual to support organizations working with different producers’ groups to help them increase their economy of scale and address common challenges.

Ergonomic Checkpoints in Agriculture

A manual with checklists for applying ergonomic principles to address agricultural workplace safety and health problems and to improve working conditions.

Extending Social Security to All – A Guide through Challenges and Options

This guide outlines basic concepts, such as the social protection floor and the social security staircase; it analyzes the affordability of various approaches; and examines the results of practices around the world, especially in low- and...

Health, Safety and Environment: A Series of Trade Union Education Manuals for Agricultural Workers

A series of manuals to help trade unions representing agricultural workers to tackle health, safety and environmental (HSE) problems through training programmes, jointly developed by ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) and the...

Safety and Health in the Use of Agrochemicals – A Guide

A training aid with practical guidance on safety precautions to be observed in the use of agrochemicals.

Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development – WIND

A participatory and action-oriented training manual and programme to empower rural communities to undertake simple and low-cost solutions that improve their working and living conditions involving both men and women mainly working in agriculture.

Work Improvement in Small Enterprises - WISE

A programme to assist micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (M/SMEs)improve working conditions and productivity using simple, effective and affordable techniques that provide direct benefits to owners and workers.

Count Us In! How to make sure that women with disabilities can participate effectively in mainstream women’s entrepreneurship development...

Guidelines on how to operationalise current thinking on disability inclusion strategies, and to ensure that women with disabilities can fully benefit from mainstream Women’s Entrepreneurship Development (WED)activities.

Skills Development through Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR): A Good Practice Guide

A guide describing the key steps required in the planning and implementation of community approaches to skills development and access to work for disabled people.

HIV and AIDS Education and Counselling Manual in Cooperatives and Informal Sector Economy

A manual to educate and sensitize cooperative members and informal workers on HIV and AIDS.

ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work

A code providing practical guidance to policy-makers, employers’ and workers’ organizations, and other social partners on formulating and implementing appropriate workplace policy, prevention and care programmes.

Guidelines for Combating Child Labour Among Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (ITPs)

Guidelines to combat child labour among ITPs, which meet the specific needs of ITPs through a rights-based approach.

Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Rights in Practice: A Guide to ILO Convention 169

A guide to explain each article of Convention No. 169 and its implications, with references to similar provisions within other UN documents, and with examples of practical application. The issues and ideas are set out to be the object of dialogue...

GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise Training Package and Resource Kit

A training package focused on basic enterprise management; developing women's confidence; creating a "business mind"; helping manage people and risks; and grasping opportunities in the business environement.

The ILO’s Rural Employment and Decent Work Programme

Food, drink and tobacco industry driving rural employment and development

Key issues and policy options to promote productive, decent jobs in the global food production system.

Food Security through Decent Work

Key issues and policy options to promote sustainable food security strategies involving rural areas.

Empowering People with Disabilities for Rural Development

Key issues and policy options to promote access to education, training and employment opportunities for disabled people living in rural areas.

Skills for rural development

Key issues and policy options to promote training and skills development in rural areas.