All publications: informal employment + informal enterprises + informal economy

Emergency and recovery support to restart livelihoods, income generation and food self-sufficiency in Leyte province affected by Typhoon...

Project PHI/14/01/UKM - Evaluation consultants: John Connell and Arvy Origenes

Formalizing enterprises in Mongolia: Challenges and policy directions

This report is predicated on a research project conducted in 2014 by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Mongolian Employers’ Federation (MONEF), and the Economic Policy and Competitiveness Research Center (EPCRC). Survey, ancillary...

Integrated Livelihood Recovery for Typhoon Haiyan affected communities - (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project PHI/14/02/JPN - Evaluation consultants: John Connell and Arvy Origenes

Promoting social dialogue and enhancing labour governance in Tunisia (Final evaluation Summary)

Project: TUN/12/01/NOR - Evaluation Consultant: Martin Herbert

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...

Formalizing enterprises in Mongolia: Challenges and policy directions

This report “Formalizing enterprises in Mongolia: Challenges and policy directions “ was developed with a view to making a contribution to the current policy discourse, specifically in terms of providing concrete recommendations to help create the...

Policy brief

Main findings from a pilot on upgrading informal apprenticeships in Jordan

Upgrading informal apprenticeships has a great potential as a poverty reduction method as it directly targets the main skills training to which the poor have access. It is a step by step process, based on constant negotiations with the employers;...

Report V (2B)

The transition from the informal to the formal economy

Report V (2A)

The transition from the informal to the formal economy

Microfinance for Decent Work – Enhancing the impact of microfinance: Evidence from an action research programme

Children Living and Working on the Streets in Lebanon: Profile and Magnitude

The study provides the Government of Lebanon and non-governmental organizations with evidence-based research on the magnitude and profile of children living or working in the streets of Lebanon, and their socioeconomic situation.

Working Paper

Cooperating out of Isolation: The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait

While countries globally are moving towards recognizing domestic workers under their labour legislation, limited protection is provided to more than two million domestic workers working and living in the Middle East. The majority of these workers...

Livelihood restoration and protection and sustainable empowerment of vulnerable peasant communities in Sindh Province - (Midterm External...

Project PAK/13/01/HSF Evaluation consultant: Edgar Guardian // Jointly conducted by: Food and Agriculture Organization, International Labour Organization and UN Women

South-South and Triangular Cooperation and Decent Work: Focus on Triangular Cooperation

An introductory fact sheet

Policies for the formalization of micro and small enterprises in Colombia.

Policies for the formalization of micro and small enterprises in Chile.

Policies for the formalization of micro and small enterprises.

Policies for the formalization of micro and small enterprises in Brazil.

Independent evaluation of the ILO's Decent Work Country Programme Strategies and Activities in North Africa 2010-2013

This high-level evaluation (HLE) is the first cluster evaluation of the ILO’s decent work strategies and activities in the North African sub region. The evaluation assesses the Office’s support to the Governments and social partners in Algeria,...

Independent evaluation of the ILO's Decent Work Country Programme Strategies and Activities in North Africa 2010-2013 - Volume II

Contains the annexes of case studies on Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan and Tunisia.