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Reducing costs

This guide helps factory managers reduce costs to ease financial liquidity and cashflow pressures on their factory operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.

COVID-19 and the education sector

Teachers have had to adapt to a world of almost universal distance education as nearly 94 per cent of all learners have faced school closures. Most teachers and their organizations have embraced this challenge, although in many developing countries...

Proportionate risk assessment for insurance products

Effective risk management is at the core of all successful insurance programs, including inclusive insurance programs. This course introduces a risk assessment framework and tool that any stakeholder in the insurance industry can use to identify key...

Working paper

EPUB Environmental integrity and doing business in Zimbabwe: Challenges and engagement of sustainable enterprises

The objective of this paper is to explore the views of different groups of the business community, including workers, managers and owners of the formal as well as of the informal economy, on how environmental integrity is being pursued in Zimbabwe....

Participatory Action-Oriented Training (PAOT)

PAOT is a practical method of stimulating and supporting workplace initiatives in grassroots workplaces relying on self-help voluntary actions.

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 253

Youth transitions and lifetime trajectory

Education pays off, but you have to be patient

The educational level of the world’s labour force is increasing, but it is not always easy for highly educated workers to find jobs matching their expectations. This new Spotlight on Work Statistics explores the advantages and disadvantages of...

Policy note: Government funding of skills

This note aims to set out the main high-level issues which need to be considered when designing systems for government funding of skills.

Policy note: Distance and e-learning in TVET

This note provides information on distance/e-learning, and uses key research findings to draw attention to the issues that policymakers may wish to consider before incorporating these technologies in the delivery of technical and vocational...

Priority ILO work areas in skills development in Indonesia 2020-2021

As skills help people access decent work and productive employment, the ILO supports the government of Indonesia and social partners to improve the country’s skills development systems.

Policy note: Sector Skills Councils

This note describes the main functions of Sector Skills Councils (SSCs), the alternatives of how they may be established, and how they go about their work. A final section gives some recommendations about setting them up.

ILO/Sida Partnership on Employment Technical brief No. 3

Young People not in employment, education or training

Portfolio of Policy Guidance Notes on the Promotion of Decent Work in the Rural Economy

Providing Access to Quality Services in the Rural Economy to Promote Growth and Social Development

A rough guide to entrepreneurship promotion in forced displacement contexts

Report

Time to Act for SDG 8 : Integrating Decent Work, Sustained Growth and Environmental Integrity [Summary]

This report presents progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 8, analyses interlinkages with other SDGs and provides policy recommendations.

Think.COOP - an orientation on the cooperative business model - Facilitator's Guide

Think.COOP is a low-cost, easy to use tool for those interested in establishing or joining a cooperative. It draws on technical content from existing materials from different ILO cooperative training tools on the basics of cooperatives. It also uses...

Insurance for small and medium enterprises

Small businesses are vital to economic development. Yet, they are exposed to high risks and often struggle more than larger businesses to cope with them. Insurance represents an important tool to help businesses better manage risks, but small...

Situation Analysis of Bangladesh TVET Sector: A background work for a TVET SWAp

This study is the stepping-stone to initiate a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) for the good governance of the skills sector. This comprehensive situation analysis on TVET in Bangladesh has...

TVET MIS Review Report

Review of current system of data generation, aggregation, and use of quality statistical data for decision making purposes for the TVET/skills development

Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) for Bangladesh Sweden Kaptai Polytechnic Institute

This publication is a quality improvement plan for Bangladesh Sweden Kaptai Polytechnic Institute to become a Model TVET Institute